Something different, I'm posting this with FireFox
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Middle-clicking a link will open it in a new tab. Makes forum reading a lot nicer.
Actually before I had firefox installed, I was viewing some websites, and I got an assload of spyware.. like actually exe files that IE decideded to let download, luckily I was able to get rid of em, but there goes your sp2 argumentcarpediem said:radeonic2 said:Oh..carpediem said:radeonic2 said:
Guess you didn't know that Alexa comes with windows itself. It's the feature that enables you to click the "related" button in IE.
I'm running an IE based browser and I've never gotten spyware, so I guess it also comes down to awareness. I protect myself with spywareblaster and comon sense.
Common sense?
Get real, I pretty proficient in using pcs
Just using the internet like popups and stuff you get em, dont even have to click.. you think I would click a popup box?
It's a matter of security here, and microsoft has never been good about it, active x is the devil of the internet, it pains me to know that theres a pluggin for firefox for active x.. it's like they dont have a clue at all.
SP2 takes care of ALOT of the ActiveX issues though. It takes a much more active effort to install an ActiveX component now.
I also use Ad Muncher which can filter out harmful code before it's even rendered in any browser.
radeonic2 said:Actually before I had firefox installed, I was viewing some websites, and I got an assload of spyware.. like actually exe files that IE decideded to let download, luckily I was able to get rid of em, but there goes your sp2 argumentcarpediem said:radeonic2 said:Oh..carpediem said:radeonic2 said:
Guess you didn't know that Alexa comes with windows itself. It's the feature that enables you to click the "related" button in IE.
I'm running an IE based browser and I've never gotten spyware, so I guess it also comes down to awareness. I protect myself with spywareblaster and comon sense
Common sense?
Get real, I pretty proficient in using pcs
Just using the internet like popups and stuff you get em, dont even have to click.. you think I would click a popup box?
It's a matter of security here, and microsoft has never been good about it, active x is the devil of the internet, it pains me to know that theres a pluggin for firefox for active x.. it's like they dont have a clue at all.
SP2 takes care of ALOT of the ActiveX issues though. It takes a much more active effort to install an ActiveX component now.
I also use Ad Muncher which can filter out harmful code before it's even rendered in any browser.
SP2 doesn't even let you choose "Run" when downloading an exe from IE. Sounds more like a user issue for me
Also, ActiveX can whenever you want be completly turned off in the Internet Security Settings (since you seem to hate ActiveX so much)
But then you wouldn't be able to run Online Virus scanners, which Firefox doesn't even give you the choice of doing.
ZoinKs! said:Whoa, I've been using FireFox for a while now but never knew that. Another reason for me to like it.thegrommit said:
Especially if you set it up to open the link in "the background".
Another top tip is that you can open a "folder" of bookmarks all as individual tabs (using middle click). One thing, though, is that you need to go into the the special "about:config" address to set a mode that makes it create new tabs rather than just replace the existing ones. I think it was browser.tabs.loadfolderandreplace had to be set to false.
Sounds more like you are making assumptionscarpediem said:radeonic2 said:Actually before I had firefox installed, I was viewing some websites, and I got an assload of spyware.. like actually exe files that IE decideded to let download, luckily I was able to get rid of em, but there goes your sp2 argumentcarpediem said:radeonic2 said:Oh..carpediem said:radeonic2 said:
Guess you didn't know that Alexa comes with windows itself. It's the feature that enables you to click the "related" button in IE.
I'm running an IE based browser and I've never gotten spyware, so I guess it also comes down to awareness. I protect myself with spywareblaster and comon sense
Common sense?
Get real, I pretty proficient in using pcs
Just using the internet like popups and stuff you get em, dont even have to click.. you think I would click a popup box?
It's a matter of security here, and microsoft has never been good about it, active x is the devil of the internet, it pains me to know that theres a pluggin for firefox for active x.. it's like they dont have a clue at all.
SP2 takes care of ALOT of the ActiveX issues though. It takes a much more active effort to install an ActiveX component now.
I also use Ad Muncher which can filter out harmful code before it's even rendered in any browser.
SP2 doesn't even let you choose "Run" when downloading an exe from IE. Sounds more like a user issue for me
Also, ActiveX can whenever you want be completly turned off in the Internet Security Settings (since you seem to hate ActiveX so much)
I like how all you IE fanboys claim if you're not not clicking popups etc that IE is fine, well I've got news- I am not a fucking retard you idiot, you dare insult me by claiming it's a user issue?
I may not know allot of graphics, which is the main focus of the website, but I've been using for 5 years(5 years ago I really got into them) and you think I'm going to clicking popups and stuff?
Please
Online virus scans? Why would I want to do that? I use symatec corporate 9.0, and even then I don't even need it, only reason I run is for when I download a whole news group, and even then it's not common to get a virus.
Just because you didn't visit the website(s) that I did to get this assload(100+) of spyware, doesn't mean I didn't, you think you need to have personal experience with getting spyware for it to be true?
You IE kids are amazing
Even without the security issues, after using firefox, I would never use a browser without tabs, or the multitude of extensions available, it just seems so obvious to use firefox, or opera, just anything that isn't based on IE.
The most common IE defense is that firefox doesn't render some sites correctly, or that it crashs allot
Then I inform of the W3C and they quickly shut up
I think it is really bad that you can run an on-line virusscanner from a browser. IE allows a html page to access the system object from ActiveX and JavaScript. And if you use the system object, you don't need the user to press a button, the script can just do as it pleases with the computer.
SP2 includes a new html rendering engine that is safer, but if you enable that as the default renderer, the sites that don't work with Mozilla won't work in IE as well. So they don't enable that.
If you look at the online statistics, you see that about 18% of all browsers reported use the Gecko engine (Opera, Mozilla, Firefox and others), with the amount increasing fast. But the recommended way to "fix" a lot of bad websites, is to make them report to the server that they are IE. So the real amount is a bit higher.
SP2 includes a new html rendering engine that is safer, but if you enable that as the default renderer, the sites that don't work with Mozilla won't work in IE as well. So they don't enable that.
If you look at the online statistics, you see that about 18% of all browsers reported use the Gecko engine (Opera, Mozilla, Firefox and others), with the amount increasing fast. But the recommended way to "fix" a lot of bad websites, is to make them report to the server that they are IE. So the real amount is a bit higher.
Opera doesn't use the Gecko engine - it uses it's own proprietry one.DiGuru said:
True. Opera by default has "IE6" in it's User Agent string in order to work around a lot of badly designed websites that suppose anything other than IE must be an old version of Netscape. In fact, both Opera and FireFox have far better support of CSS and XHTML than IE has.
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