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krizon

krizon

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I wish I knew what I was doing when I go online! I wanted to see the FBI's Most Wanted List (just for fun!) and I had to download RealPlayer to view a video - which I never did get to see, then I seemed to have to download Mozilla Firefox which now wants to be my best friend and default browser. Should I let it? Is it better to have MF as my default, or stay with Internet Explorer? MF promises to whizz me into cyberspace much faster than IE, which isn't bad. Anyone use MF - any good, or should I now remove everything I've just put on?
 
I use it because my sister recommended it and she knows what she is talking about when it comes to computers. It's fine but for what I do online, it makes no real difference which browser I use.
 
Thanks, gentlemen. I get carried away installing things that pop up and say I have to install them in order to see something, then you put one thing on the pc and another thing piggybacks it and says you have to have it, too, and so on. It's very confusing to a technophobe like me! Well, more a technotwit, really.
 
I use Firefox, and IE's latest update stole the good ideas from Firefox. There isnt much difference these days. IE does seem to have a nice font style. One of the best things about Firefox was the fact that you can have tighter control over what pop-ups you allow .
 
I'll try Firefox and see which is nicer. If there won't be much diff I guess I'll just Uninstall it.
 
The thing is with firefox now though is that there is a add-on which is called IE7 tab which opens up a IE7 tab within firefox, ie switching rendering engines allowing you do use an embedded IE engine, thus never having to use IE again.

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Ummm... to tell you the truth, Pro, I'm a bit nervous about starting on anything new - okay, the quick answer is no! Well, not just yet. :shy: I've made some complete Horlicks in the past downloading stuff I thought I ought to have and then finding it fought with what I'd already got, tried to remove it, and ended up in deep doo-doo.

I don't have to Uninstall IE, do I? I just put Firefox up as my Default for the Internet and try it out? The icon's on my desktop - it's lovely. Seems like other folks have found it safe and okay, so perhaps I'll give it a whizz this week. If not heard from for several days, you'll know I've disappeared into a cyberhole! Again...
 
No you don't have to uninstall IE7 as firefox just installs as a seperate browser, also when you start Firefox it will ask if you want it as your default browser, just click no and IE7 will still be the default.
 
Does Firefox have the Font smoothing option that IE7 has?

I know some people don't like it but I run a pretty high res and it looks lovely.
 
Cheers, Pro. I have a not totally unexpected non-working day tomorrow (Lingfield's latest abandoned NH meeting), so I'll have a wee play. If it's got font smoothing, I'm all for it - I'd hate to have wrinkled fonts! norty
 
IE7 has crashed with me several times lately so I've been back to Mozilla for a few days - job done! Don't know why I switched in the first place really, giving IE7 a chance I suppose then didn't go back.
 
I'm sorry to be really, really dense, :shy: but I went to install Firefox tonight and then worried about how it works. I can install it, and have IE as my default - but not as my browser, is that right? What will Firefox be doing if IE is the browser? Just one leedle more reply, and then I promise to get on with it and stop arsing about. Anyone would think I'm doing my first brain surgery!
 
If you are using one browser, you are not using the other - that lies unopened, and dormant. Simple!

I have IE for emergencies but use Safari - the usual mac browser - as my default. It's useful to have two installed as when one freezes due to overload as Safari kept doing last week during Cheltenham, if you are in a rush eg to get a bet on, you can open the other

On the other list I belong to which is very big, and where most posters are in America, most of them use Mozilla Firefox and swear by it - and a lot of them are IT professionals too
 
Kri - there's nothing special about having two browsers, they're just seperate programs that do the same thing. You can have Internet Explorer and Firefox open at the same time - even looking at the same page if you want.

The only think that makes your "default" browser special is that when you're in another application, like Microsoft Word or Outlook, and you click on a link to a webpage, Windows knows to open it in whatever you've chosen to be your default browser.
 
Thanks, folks. I've made so many goofs messing around with applications which demand to be installed, uninstalled, run, configured, and any other techie term, in the past, that I'm like a chaser who's fallen three times in a row - very wary! I'll play with it on Sunday - only in 2.5 hours ago after a whole day getting to Weatherbys for an update on the owners' PASS system and back - horrendously slow progress, but at least I wasn't driving, my colleague was. So too knackered to play with it tonight, and back up the M23 tomorrow and Saturday for work at Lingers. I need to be mentally alert for computer stuff!
 
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