Trout

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Since installing all the latest upgrades and SP1 to XP my browser is just about unusable.

Even making all my favourite sites is not that sucessful.

It is absolutely crap. And there is nothing that seems to make sense. I would use the MS Newsgroups - except that my browser will not allow me access.

I constantly get 'Action Cancelled' for any kind of interactive element of the webpage.

I mean my p900 gives me a better web experience than this.

What other browsers are out there that are any good?

Any assistance would be appreciated.

David

suba

how about opera, mozilla or netscape?

Chris L

Have a look at Mozilla Firefox. It is still officially a beta release, but I've found it as stable as any other browser out there. IMHO the future of browsers. Microsoft have stopped a lot of the development of IE (despite what they might tell you) and it is beginning to show.

You might find you have to search around for a few plugins, but it is worth it.

Chris

Trout

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Thanks guys - will give them a go

Trout

iTrader: (1)

Downloaded Firefox...

...aaahhhh - so good - internet browsing is back!

Wonderful, thanks for the pointer

David

LeeMac

iTrader: (1)

ive used loads in the past but recently used www.fastbrowser.net and its got to be the best one after explorer for me.

I always use explorer tho, why?

Father Jack Hackett

Mozilla Firefox appears to have some kind of Google toolbar in it. Does that have the same privacy issues as the regular Google toolbar?

Stueyb

The thing in the toolbar is just a search bar that saves you having to do www.google.com and typing in the search. It can be very useful. Alos Control + t is worth having the browser for by itself

Geezer

I've installed Mozilla to see what it's like. It seems a bit slow comapred to IE. Also, www.scoobynet.co.uk just displays as a load of badly formatted special characters!

I'll run it for a few days and see how it goes

Geezer

Iain Young

Netscape is no longer being developed, and internet explorer development has definitely slowed.

I've been using mozilla firefox for a while, and although it does still contain a number of annoying bugs, (and there are some plugins which don't work well with it) it's showing a great deal of promise and is definitely a LOT better than the alternatives (Opera for example)

Trout

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I am interested in the comments above.

From my own experience, IE with XP and SP1 (plus latest 'upgrades') simply will not work.

The page builds are appaling and never complete, hot buttons are rarely populated, pictures and borders are blank, and things like banner ads that are interactive merely give me Action Cancelled.

I would use IE, if, and a big IF, someone could tell me what I can do to make it work on this PC. I am currently running default MS configuration of security etc. I have seen the SP1 version work elsewhere, but not here.

The upside is that IE is much faster now - because it is doing much less

David

dba

but if it works for everyone else,isnt it something to do with your own settings?

Trout

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Apparently I am not alone with this problem!!

Settings not changed other than loading the latest upgrade to the XP Service Pack 1.

If it is settings then if someone has any groovy ideas of how to fix it it would be great!

David

Iain Young

Might sound a silly question, but is your temporary internet cache full?

GaryK

Thanks for the heads-up guys, now using firefox and see how I get on, first impressions very very good, and it can read all my IE favourites too. Yep the multi-tabbed browsing experience is cool.

Gymbal

Opera is brilliant especially if you pay for it! Mouse gestures are genius

MyIE is slick over IE

Firefox seems fast but not got mouse gestures or tabbed windows running yet, early days?

Gymbal

Oops....

Now tabbing and mouse gestures......

As fast as Opera....

GaryK

what are mouse gestures???

angrynorth

I use Firefox here on the Mac and its waaay fast. I am even using it more often that Apple Safari Its just soo bloody quick. The GUI is nasty but the speed more than makes up for it.

GaryK

an,

See I dont understand what all the fuss is about with safari, saying how its quick and all, is it bollox on my powerbook it doesnt run any faster than IE, in fact I prefer IE of the two, now running firefox on win2k Im gonna give the OS X version a while for sure.

Gary

Iain Young

But it's full of bugs, and doesn't implement the dhtml standards correctly / fully. I can list loads of web sites which just don't work with it (but do work fine with Firefox - which is just as quick, free, and not full of annoying ads).

Actually, it has got tabbed windows