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Old 22 March 2009, 06:39 PM
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Opera is starting to get on my **** now .. any suggestions ?

Flock doesnt seem much good either.
Old 22 March 2009, 06:59 PM
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firefox by a mile
Old 22 March 2009, 07:02 PM
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what about a firewall for a 64 bit Windows 7 .. Zone alarm wont install
Old 22 March 2009, 07:18 PM
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Tried Google Chrome? I like it..
Old 22 March 2009, 07:35 PM
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my vote for Firefox !!
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Old 22 March 2009, 08:05 PM
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Tried tons of them, opera, firefox, IE (various versions), chrome, safari etc and although I am bias because of the mac side of things, firefox winds, closely followed by safari or IE but heavily tweaked

Chrome sucks big time
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I've used loads of different browsers but I always go back to Internet Explorer.

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ffox has been n will always be king imo due to its open source nature, features n quality.
Old 22 March 2009, 10:32 PM
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i.e. for the familly, and a sneaky firefox for the "off piste" surfing

with all history set to delete on closing
Old 23 March 2009, 12:39 AM
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Originally Posted by hodgy0_2
i.e. for the familly, and a sneaky firefox for the "off piste" surfing

with all history set to delete on closing
IE8 has a delete on close function
Old 23 March 2009, 09:13 AM
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I've been an opera user for years and years but recently changed to Firefox and won't be going back.
Old 23 March 2009, 11:00 AM
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I'm liking IE8. Faster than previous versions of IE (and certainly faster than Firefox on my machine). Seems pretty stable as well, although only time will tell on that
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Firefox for me.
Old 23 March 2009, 12:39 PM
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Originally Posted by bob269
IE8 has a delete on close function
ah but then the wife will ask why do I always have to enter my name/password into Hotmail, and why dont we have any history
Old 23 March 2009, 03:03 PM
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If you use Privoxy and utilize the sandboxing within Google Chrome, then it is a very very secure browser now that the bugs have been sorted, in fact I would go as far as saying it is the most secure browser you can use.
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If you ignore the built in spyware of course
Old 23 March 2009, 04:25 PM
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Its not at all malicious though and is there to help the user, all but one can be disabled, leaving the only send out an RLZ identifier, which isn't personal to the user. If you wanted to disable that you can compile your own version using the source code

A better explanation can be found on the blog
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Originally Posted by hodgy0_2
ah but then the wife will ask why do I always have to enter my name/password into Hotmail, and why dont we have any history
Just noticed IE8 has an "inprivate" browser session option which wont store anything of your current session without the need to delete current history
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FF never going back to IE with its hidden scripts!!


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Old 28 March 2009, 05:30 PM
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FF, and the newest version also does "Inprivate Browsing". Or will do once the beta is dragged kicking and screaming into the daylight.
Old 29 March 2009, 09:01 PM
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Web user magazine did a review of all the web browsers in the latest issue.

Top 5 in order (in their opinion )

1st - Firefox 3
2nd - Google Chrome
3rd - IE8
4th - Opera 10 Alpha
5th - Apple Safari

I personally use IE8, just coz it's what I'm used to. Tried Safari for a little while. Love the looks of it, very cool. Might give Firefox a try though.

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Old 29 March 2009, 09:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Scotsman
I've been an opera user for years and years but recently changed to Firefox and won't be going back.

Opposite for me. Started using Opera 9 a few weeks ago when I got fed up with the speed on here.

With Opera it speeded up tremendously.

I've always been a fan of FF but probably won't go back now I'm an Opera fan boy
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