Firefox / Explorer Extensions??? ( Archived) (30)

She is clever !

It was'nt that i did'nt like Firefox.
But my understanding of computers is extremely limited,and the message that seemed to be coming through to me from the tech guy,was that having both browsers at once could cause some kind of internal conflict,in the computer.

I have no idea if that is the case,or not. Just thought it best to play safe.

hi Uli maybe just a thin line between clever and rude? but my opinion is that self installing programs are not particularly clever. i will never use firefox for that reason. they need to show a few manners, JMHO.

Have you ever come across a self-installing woman?

You know, they just move and start organising your life for you; before you know it you've lost your identity, your will to live and just wander around the place 24/7 muttering:

'Yes dear'

Yup - self-installing women need keeping an eye on, because before you know it they've married you, then divorced you and uninstalled you from what you thought was your own home!

For the pc's use Firefox; a thousand times better than Explorer; or get a Mac for both. Superior performance and no virus can penetrate their systems or be hacked into except by certain security branches of our Govt.

Thanks Conrad.
Maybe i will reinstall FF,then.
After all,if it does cause problems,i can always uninstall it again,can't i ?

Firefox to 95%, since there are a few sites that do not support Firefox very well.

You have much better basic security in Firefox, more available options and add-ons and better control over what you want it to do and how. The latest version to require a bit of memory (RAM) when running, but if that is an issue, you can always install an earlier version.

There is no good way to compare to IE, but instead you have many other free browsers available, worth a try.

For me IE is what had to be done, while FireFox is what could be done.

In a PC running MS Windows you can not de-install IE, since it is part of the core and is used to run the update system for example.

It co-exists just fine with any other browser client you would like to use.

Firefox is not for "Nerds", it is actually more user-friendly than ever was IE.

I do not leave a PC without adding Firefox to it, if it has only got IE.

Thanks,Mike. It's that bit about co-existing with another browser that i was concerned about.

But now something else concerns me.
It has been mentioned that it has it's own virus checking security.
I have AVG security installed. Will it co-exist happily with that?
I'm thinking about the firewall aspect of it.

Firefox do not check viruses as such. What it has is a function to check if the site you are trying to reach is known to be a fishing site or generally a bad site. It has two ways of doing this - asking an internal list of "forbidden" sites or ask google. Not both, you choose method if you at all want to use it. And I would suggest using the built in list, it work well.

Firewalls and virus scanners is still needed. Firefox is not any of those, it is a browser that just cares a little extra what is happening in the background before it accepts it.

I have no situation where Firefox have been in conflict with anything, but it has a few things that works less well than in IE. It is because the developers of the site in question have been using exclusively IE designed functions. In those cases I still use IE if I have to visit the site, but I also message the site owner telling them about the problem.

I use Firefox extensively, but do not limit your experience, try other free browsers, maybe you will find one that is small, fast and do just what you want it to without all the extras you never use anyway. Check Opera for example.


Most popular browsers comes from the free software world (ie Linux) and have been converted to the Microsoft environment. They are all good fun to use with their own little soul.

Always be cautious of any software that claims to do it all in the orchestra. They WILL be making compromises to fit it all in one suite.

Thanks very much,Mike!
You have got star qualiy,man.

I did'nt realise that some browsers were quicker than others at downloading .
I thought that was a matter of how many M.B's you had,from your I.S.P.

am i the only person around here who has turned on the pc and found a new browser has installed itself in place of an older one without permission? maybe people don't care about that happening....maybe i should get a life...or maybe be more gay, like that website told me. doesn't it annoy other people when programs self install?.. how can it happen? maybe it wasn't ff at all, but a 3rd party program. anybody know? is it possible that a piece of spyware installed it? what could have happened?

Sorry,that's what i meant,loading pages faster.

ah righty-oh... thanks for that...very helpful...can it be done remotely by somebody accessing the machine remotely? i found it installed and i didn't install it.