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Miscellaneous Topics => General Discussions => Topic started by: CLAREGO on June 22, 2007, 12:45:02 PM

Poll
Question: what web browsers do most of you fellow smokers use ?
Option 1: firefox votes: 8
Option 2: bill gates ie votes: 10
Option 3: opera votes: 1
Option 4: safari votes: 0
Option 5: netscape votes: 0
Title: web browsers
Post by: CLAREGO on June 22, 2007, 12:45:02 PM
what web browsers do most of you fellow smokers use ?
Title: Re: web browsers
Post by: Oldman on June 22, 2007, 03:05:43 PM
IE 6 on two systems. IE 7 on one system.
Title: Re: web browsers
Post by: CLAREGO on June 22, 2007, 03:41:52 PM
im not a fan of ie 7 bill gates did his stuff once again and its the same interface as firefox
Title: Re: web browsers
Post by: begolf25 on June 22, 2007, 04:36:32 PM
Big fan of FireFox. Only run into a few things that won't function in Firefox.  I do a lot of FTP and I like their free FTP add on.
Title: Re: web browsers
Post by: Kummok on June 22, 2007, 05:48:00 PM
Safari 2.0.4 for day-to-day "utility" stuff, but Firefox 2.0.0.3 for anything that doesn't work right w/ Safari

edited to add this observation...... I notice that you have seperate category for Mozilla and for Firefox, CLAREGO, but my FireFox browser info says 'Mozilla Firefox"....are they one and the same or two different browsers????
Title: Re: web browsers
Post by: CLAREGO on June 22, 2007, 06:38:25 PM
sure http://www.mozilla.org/releases it is a sun project i think its buggy on windows
Title: Re: web browsers
Post by: jfalls55 on June 23, 2007, 04:48:03 AM
To give an answer to Kummok's question, there was something of a 'turf war' within the mozilla.org orginazation as to the size to which the Mozilla browser suite was growing. Also there were legal ties to Netscape. They split out the browser in 2003 and made it standalone (FireFox). They also split out the email client and made it standalone (Thunderbird). They still produce the Mozilla suite, though I don't know for how much longer.
Title: Re: web browsers
Post by: CLAREGO on June 23, 2007, 11:11:13 AM
hey you learn something new everyday
Title: Re: web browsers
Post by: West Coast Kansan on June 23, 2007, 11:42:23 AM
IE 7 from bill's upgrade download page  ;D works ok for us  ;)
Title: Re: web browsers
Post by: CLAREGO on June 24, 2007, 09:09:22 AM
no problem with Mr. gates just he is a mastermind but as soon as an open source project takes control on something he seems to copy it.
Title: Re: web browsers
Post by: Oldman on June 24, 2007, 09:37:11 AM
Quotebut as soon as an open source project takes control on something he seems to copy it.
I thought that was the idea behind open source... to take it, improve on it / add-on to it and to utilize it.

Title: Re: web browsers
Post by: CLAREGO on June 24, 2007, 01:58:42 PM
yeah that is true olds. gott me on that. if his os's were so special why does he make the consumer pay so much for his product.
Title: Re: web browsers
Post by: Oldman on June 24, 2007, 03:01:12 PM
Quoteif his os's were so special why does he make the consumer pay so much for his product.
Well that is something you will have to ask him.  For that matter Mac's OS is not cheap either.
Title: Re: web browsers
Post by: CLAREGO on June 24, 2007, 04:04:22 PM
ageee on that
Title: Re: web browsers
Post by: jfalls55 on July 20, 2007, 12:09:59 PM
Don't forget, there's always Linux. Nowadays, it's definitely worth a look!
Title: Re: web browsers
Post by: CLAREGO on November 17, 2007, 08:58:28 AM
yeah i like ubuntu
Title: Re: web browsers
Post by: 3rensho on November 17, 2007, 10:15:42 AM
I only fire up my windows machine once a month to get the security updates.  The rest of the time I'm on Linux. 

Tom
Title: Re: web browsers
Post by: LilSmoker on November 18, 2007, 11:04:18 AM
IE 7 here  ;)
Title: Re: web browsers
Post by: sueblazer03 on November 18, 2007, 05:14:24 PM
I'm using netscape. My computer so old I don't ry to many upgrades.
Title: Re: web browsers
Post by: NePaSmoKer on November 19, 2007, 10:58:10 AM
I use an old fashioned magnifyin glass to do my web browsin  ;D  :D  :D just dont get to close to them black spiders  :D  :D  :D or read newspapers in the sun with it.

nepas
Title: Re: web browsers
Post by: Oldman on November 19, 2007, 12:52:02 PM
You all will find this funny...
My personal drive is set up with IE 7. However, my business drive is set up with IE 6 -- this is due to the fact that if I wish to bill the AirForce for my services WAWF does not support 7 on XP!!! Only on Vista...

Changing to Vista does not interest me... I can see it now. New color laser printer, (not cheap)  new scanner (sorta cheap) change over much of my software to 64 bit (very expensive) etc. etc. etc... Plus my data base is so huge and some of it is over 9 years old. The idea of changing it over is of no interest at all.  Nope I will stay with XP on my business drive until they stop supporting it. 
Title: Re: web browsers
Post by: Mr Walleye on November 19, 2007, 05:17:57 PM
I hear ya Raye!

I have 7 systems at the office and 2 more at home. All XP right now and hopefully for some time. I hate the thoughts of all the compatibility issues with Vista.

Mike
Title: Re: web browsers
Post by: CLAREGO on November 24, 2007, 03:46:05 AM
yeah as a teke i see that everywhere. but not only that vista like all windows in general is a memory hog. Most businesses are not switching yet and as a tek I will not switch till a service pack comes out. I recently just refurbished an acer with 512 memory  and a 2.0 Intel dual processor for my mom. Well one thing that is cool with vista it remembers what you do so the more you use it the better it gets plus adding 2 gigs of flash memory did do the trick but my p3 with xp home and 192mb (laptop) of memory still is more stable