Cant defend Internet Explorer anymore

[negative chill]

Right now I use Firefox.

Firefox made my XP Desktop sluggish as hell, so I switched over to a variant of it called "Palemoon"

Honestly, I love it

[Dragonmaster Lou]

Firefox made my XP Desktop sluggish as hell, so I switched over to a variant of it called "Palemoon"

Honestly, I love it

How long ago did you switch? The Firefox folks have been working pretty hard to clean up its performance issues.

That said, though I'm personally iffy about using alternative browsers (even though Palemoon probably shares about 95% of its code with Firefox -- including the most important stuff), Palemoon does look like a good alternative. Firefox runs just fine for me, so I'm not about to switch. However, if Palemoon works better for you, cool.

Frankly, what I want is a Firefox-based browser that improves on its SSL/TLS support. Firefox's implementation of it is actually pretty old and vulnerable in certain respects.

[negative chill]

How long ago did you switch? The Firefox folks have been working pretty hard to clean up its performance issues.

About maybe 2 years ago? It was mostly due to the fact that Firefox is more optimized for older pcs, not really current ones

Palemoon does look like a good alternative

It is! And it all of the Firefox add-ons and extensions still work with Palemoon

But yeah, I'm not trying to tempt you to switch, I was just saying what worked for me

[Pulstar]

In recent months Chrome's been gobbling up more RAM than it should and thanks to my disdain for Google I have switched to Palemoon thanks to recommendations from members here. Who knows we might be switching to their mobile OS as well?

[superandroidtron]

I'm partial to mosaic myself... Just kidding. I use Chrome for day to day stuff.

[TrekkiesUnite118]

But IE has a magical girl anime mascot!:

[legomyego]

ya pretty hard to defend these days...only reason I use it sometimes is I forget to install a new web browser then I have all my favorites/hints for the web browser on there...and don't want to lose them...

What's a good browser that will transfer everything pretty seamlessly?

[Kamahl]

What's a good browser that will transfer everything pretty seamlessly?

Chrome can sync everything between devices, and it's pretty good at importing from IE. It keeps getting worse though.

[legomyego]

Went with Pale Moon...just cuz I like to try new browsers...youtube loads VERY fast now was having thumbnails not load in IE and loading videos slow- now very quick

also was nice to get a download where they're not trying to sneak in bloat where in there to get payed by their sponsors...that crap pisses me off

[Pulstar]

Now if only Flash went away. Seeing the two Flash processes running alongside the browser session is unpleasant.

[IrishNinja]

damn, kinda wanna check out palemoon now

It opens a new "incognito" window that doesn't log any of your activity. Once you close that browser window it's gone. No need to turn anything off or on.

ah, brilliant...thanks for this man

General opinion on Chrome is that it's a botnet due to Google's lust for data mining. I also think that there was a period of time where it wouldn't work on anything below Vista which didn't build up much loyalty in me

first ive heard of the data mining but given google's moves in the last year or so, it'd not really surprise me much

Chrome can sync everything between devices, and it's pretty good at importing from IE. It keeps getting worse though.

the syncing across devices was actually what got me on originally, does FF now do this or have a good mod for it? i got tired of xmarks/etc

[Moirai]

Hard to believe you used to have to pay money for IE. Now look at how crappy it is. You'd have to pay me to pay for that shit!

[Chibisteven]

Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 7 doesn't give me much hell. There's a couple pages that can make go into infinite reload cycle. But otherwise works fine. Comes in 64-bit flavor on x64 systems, not as many plug-ins/extensions support that version though. User access control should always be on anyway and only disabled for programs incompatiable with it.

Firefox, it works but it seems to have problems with rendering text. Cleartype doesn't seem to render correctly. I've notice this browser has more problems with it's home page getting hijacked than other browsers when working on other's people's computer.

Chrome... It works. Nothing much to it. Just works. Its only problem is videos may refuse to play.

[Pulstar]

Haha and people used to think Microsoft was evil. Now Google humbles even the big MS. Bill Gates got a lot of good karma though as a philanthropist =]

[Devil N]

I'm partial to mosaic myself... Just kidding. I use Chrome for day to day stuff.

I still have a Macintosh Classic on my desk which runs Mosaic 1.0. It's just barely capable of rendering static web pages with images. Did you know Mosaic was bought out by Microsoft and it eventually became Internet Explorer? Up until IE version 6 (I think) there was still an acknowledgement to Mosaic in the About screen.