SUBSIM: The Web's #1 resource for all submarine & naval simulations since 1997 |
|
09-08-17, 06:17 AM | #1 |
Born to Run Silent
|
I switched from IE to Chrome some years back. I'm not allowed to endorse Chrome but I can say I don't have any big complaints.
__________________
SUBSIM - 26 Years on the Web |
09-08-17, 11:42 AM | #2 | ||
Stowaway
Posts: n/a
Downloads:
Uploads:
|
Quote:
I love using firefox except for this issue but its very similar to the problems explorer has where some pages wont load because of (im assuming) the same loading cookies issues. plus explorer is slow as a turtle Quote:
why Microsoft made "edge" incompatible with older OS is infuriating but SOP for those crooks trying to force win 10 down our throats. from what I am hearing, it seems like my only two good options are, use chrome and have everything I do online recorded and sold to spammers or upgrade to win 10 (which I don't like at all) and then I can use edge browser that comes with it Last edited by Webster; 09-08-17 at 12:00 PM. |
||
09-08-17, 01:21 PM | #3 |
CTD - it's not just a job
|
Webster, for Windows 7-64, I've got IE11, Firefox (whatever the latest version) and Opera all on the same computers, and all for the same reason. Some sites want and need IE 11 and only IE 11. Others are OK with Firefox, but I use mostly Opera because it is "lighter" in its load size, and faster. However, like all the others, certain web site "techniques" will cause it problems, just like all the others. It used to be that a site might have a logo on the home page that would say "Optimized to work with IE6" or "Opitmized for Firefox" or whatever, but now it's up to the user to figure it out, I guess. If a particular page gives me trouble, I try one of the other browsers. I keep IE 11 as my "default" browser, which is what opens when certain programs (Photoshop LE) open their "Help" page, but it can be a bit inconvenient to always having to answer "Not now" or whatever it is, to the pop-up "This is not your default browser. Do you want to change that?", every time I open one of the other browsers first. My XP boots are no longer allowed on the internet, and I'll pull the wire whenever going into XP, but I had a similar set-up on them. I have two school-age sons, both on Windows 10-64 laptops, and one uses Firefox almost exclusively, the other uses Opera, but they both still have IE whatever the last number was, and that Edge, which is nothing more than IE whatever, with the guts cut out, so that it resembles an Opera install... But they also have to swap browsers also whenever they encounter page issues. I'd say that the http "standard" isn't quite so...
|
09-08-17, 01:50 PM | #4 |
Fleet Admiral
|
I have two browser.
The one I use daily and one I use on occasion. Skybird wrote: Explorer: dont cry for it. No other browser got attacked as much as this one. Fail. Can't say if he's right or not about this statement, I do know however that every FB-friends and other online friends who have been hacked, tried to be hacked or other bad things have or had Chrome- This made me remember an article I once read in a Computer magasin (while I was waiting at the barbershop) "Though more a software or similar gets though more the hacker get interested in it, it has to reach about 50.000 or more before the hacker start looking at it with interest" In the beginning Chrome wasn't that popular or was quite new-Hackers didn't bother to make virus program for this browser-Now everyone is taking about Chrome, everyone is saying a person with his brain in order use Chrome a.s.o. year maybe-but it also makes the hacker a lot more interested in That is my conclusion after having talked with my FB-friends and other friends when I ask them-Which browser do you use and they all have said-Chrome. Markus |
09-08-17, 04:04 PM | #5 |
Navy Seal
|
There's a new Chrome based browser out called Vivaldi. It's a GEM! It's been my primary browser for the last couple of months. Before that I used a Firefox derivative called Waterfox. It's probably the ultimate power user's browser, but Vivaldi is so darned snappy and fresh that it's really compelling. Just what they've done for history display will curl your toenails.
__________________
Sub Skipper's Bag of Tricks, Slightly Subnuclear Mk 14 & Cutie, Slightly Subnuclear Deck Gun, EZPlot 2.0, TMOPlot, TMOKeys, SH4CMS |
09-08-17, 06:19 PM | #6 | |
Soaring
|
Quote:
I read this ^. I do not know the browser, however. I also read that the former opera people in the Vivaldi team left Opera in anger and/or dissappointement. I take from that that Opera has not recovered from its unneeded, intentional fall.
__________________
If you feel nuts, consult an expert.
|
|
09-08-17, 06:25 PM | #7 | |
Soaring
|
Quote:
If you want to reduce the chances of attacks aiming at software you usek, use software that is not popular and not widespread. You get no guarantee, but you push chances in your favour. Thats why I use no stuff by Adobe, Microsoft, no Java, no flashplayer etc.
__________________
If you feel nuts, consult an expert.
|
|
09-08-17, 06:38 PM | #8 |
Soaring
|
I rsearched a bit about Opera. It seems that they reversed over their mistake to no longer have bookmark lists in Opera. They came up with this fantastic (careful, cyncism) idea when they changed their browser engine to Chromium. Three months later half of their user base had disappeared. Since some versions they have brought it back recently, however. I read the browser now is one of the fastest if not the fastest out there, and has some comfort and security features you do not have in other browsers or that they must install via addons, it also comes with by default included popup blocker. Hoiwever, i have no info about privacy, and the thing bases on Chromium (Google). Scepticism is on order.
Maybe its time to give it another look. Its been five years or so since I left it behind. Sounds as if their deep fall has taught them some lessons, and the started to listen to people once again. Its availabe for Windows, Mac, Android and Linux as well.
__________________
If you feel nuts, consult an expert.
|
09-08-17, 06:51 PM | #9 | |
Stowaway
Posts: n/a
Downloads:
Uploads:
|
Quote:
I find it simply amazing that with todays tech this is an issue that a browser cant function on any and all websites that you go to. I just want "1" browser that works trouble free on any website I go to and secondary is it would be nice if it was secure, lastly would be my concerns about the amount of spyware and selling my online activity. is chrome also going to not work on some websites? as much as I hate google and loath the idea of using it, if it runs trouble free, then I guess I will just have to learn to live with it and its invasiveness. at the end of the day im just going to be practical and what ever works and does it all "without issues" that's what I will use, even if its not what I "want to use" Last edited by Webster; 09-08-17 at 07:03 PM. |
|
09-08-17, 07:44 PM | #10 | |
CTD - it's not just a job
|
Quote:
I'm going to have to check-out that Vivaldi also, RR. I might also sic my boys on it. They're always experimenting with that stuff, and will try to break it, stretch it, bend it, etc. They will put it through its paces fershur ferserttin... |
|
09-09-17, 02:21 PM | #11 |
Stowaway
Posts: n/a
Downloads:
Uploads:
|
so does google chrome have the same issues with "some" websites freezing up and not loading correctly as the others do?
honestly, just having smooth trouble free browsing that works is my first concern, that is far more important then any privacy issues |
09-09-17, 05:37 PM | #12 | |
Navy Seal
|
Quote:
Nowdays, we are still saddled with Microsoft ignoring web standards and websites having to identify which browser you are using and format accordingly. Some web programmers aren't up to speed and do this badly. Some, like Microsoft itself, feed you a message that you must use Internet Exploder or that abortion of theirs that they claim is a "modern browser" and people are just running away from like it was a leper. It is.
__________________
Sub Skipper's Bag of Tricks, Slightly Subnuclear Mk 14 & Cutie, Slightly Subnuclear Deck Gun, EZPlot 2.0, TMOPlot, TMOKeys, SH4CMS |
|
09-08-17, 06:15 PM | #13 | |
Soaring
|
Quote:
My idea is that thigns should not happen automatically. A pop-up with commercials shoupold not pop up in the firstm, but when it does, it shall not run its script autmatially, since such popups can be malware-infested, and you do not want to havbe malware scripots runnign automatically. So I use browser settigns and addons to have such stuff manually allowed every tikme it happens or I visit a site. If I do not give certain permissions, sites will not load. I suspect you have your cookie policies tuned too tight, excluding too much stuff. Try to loosen it a bit - but not with Explorer, but Firefox.
__________________
If you feel nuts, consult an expert.
|
|
|
|