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Thread ID: 52953	2005-01-03 13:12:00	Respecting other peoples choices	MMM (5660)	PC World Chat

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310265	2005-01-03 13:12:00	I've been holding my tongue and gritting my teeth so long, that my top dentures are getting permanent fissures in them. Just gotta say what I'm gonna say and that's that. No offence intended. :( While acknowledging that a lot of you are enjoying using FF as your browser, may I politely request that when promoting it as an option among many browsers available, that you forego that continual bleat regarding FF vs Internet Explorer. :groan: Those, like myself who continue to use IE, and surprise, surprise enjoy and even prefer to use IE rather than another browser, would appreciate you respecting our choice in what we use on our computer system. I have tried FF but prefer IE. The only Trojan I have come across was because I, not IE, did something really dumb. :blush: With programs I had already installed and info gained from this forum over the last few months, was able to get rid of it within the hour. :D The excellent promotion of FF by all forms of media and internet forums for many months will have either succeeded in getting people to change or not by now. No browser is the complete answer to everyone's taste. I realise this message won't make a blind bit of difference to some of you, but no harm in trying, eh?	MMM (5660)
310266	2005-01-03 13:20:00	Its not about us enjoying Firefox, If you think good advice should be muted because your prefer a flawed product then your miles away and should have just continued grinding your dentures.	Metla (12)
310267	2005-01-03 13:57:00	Its not about us enjoying Firefox, If you think good advice should be muted because your prefer a flawed product then your miles away and should have just continued grinding your dentures. :confused: :confused: The point I am making is that there are other browsers that are just as safe as FF, yet their users do not have this need to constantly harp on about it. That is the point I am making. It is not about muting or ignoring good advice. There are other good choices one can use instead of IE, so why don't they get promoted with FF? [And I thought Cantabrians were one-eyed! :rolleyes: ] I have installed, and kept up to date, security programs that help keep me safe on the internet. My settings in IE are set pretty high security wise. I don't promote it as an answer to all the worlds problems, its simply my choice.	MMM (5660)
310268	2005-01-03 14:05:00	Not only one eyed,but loud,crude and impolite. firefox is the wicked. That is all.	Metla (12)
310269	2005-01-03 14:05:00	I don't promote it as an answer to all the worlds problems, its simply my choice.[/QUOTE] I for one, remember the Evil done to Netscape buy M/S. I remember the M/S mantra "DOS is not done, untill Lotus wont run" What goes around, baby, What goes around. D.	drb1 (4492)
310270	2005-01-03 14:23:00	Anyhow,It stands to reason that the most populer alternative will be promoted the most, as that is what most have used/settled upon. Are you saying that all browsers should be promoted equally,even if they are not equal, or that people should activly promote software they either didn't like or haven't even used? edit. My bad, After reading your post a few more times to see your point,it becomes obvious your just a IE user with a bee in your bonnet.	Metla (12)
310271	2005-01-03 14:29:00	Not only one eyed,but loud,crude and impolite. :eek: Obviously one of their football boots stood on one of your corns, eh? Can now understand why you wear slippers :p :D You play the part of "The Patron Saint of Good Manners" so well Metla	MMM (5660)
310272	2005-01-03 14:52:00	I have tried FF but prefer IE. PEBCAK ;)	E|im (87)
310273	2005-01-03 14:53:00	My bad, After reading your post a few more times to see your point,it becomes obvious your just a IE user with a bee in your bonnet. Well no I'm not actually. I changed over to FF when it was 0.9.2 and 0.9.3 and really loved it. Would still be on it if the final version that came out wasn't such a nightmare for me. Spent a lot of time in the FF forums trying out all sorts of suggestions to get it right. Lots of timeouts, pages not found, altering things in :about config, etc., bookmarks having to be reinstalled, reinstalling the program a few times to start off again. [Note: this was just my experience, I'm not saying this will happen to everyone, because it doesn't.] Put simply, it didn't work for me. I'm not knocking FF. I would just like to see some posts showing the differences between browsers, eg. things that one has but another may not. Then, depending on what you do on the Internet, you can judge more easily which one will suit. So far have tried FF, Opera, Avant Browser [which I use a lot for RSS feeds and tabs etc] and IE.	MMM (5660)
310274	2005-01-03 15:20:00	PEBCAK ;) Correct! The "programmers" who fiddled with an excellent browser making it a real mess on my computer. The first 2 worked no trouble at all. The final one didn't. After reading all the posts in their forums for 2-3 weeks before I finally gave up, showed that I was not the only one having problems with bugs that were still being sorted out. I understand that many of them have been fixed now. You don't have to be shy and use abbreviations instead of the exact phrase. I'll do it for you - Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard. A form of denial often used by Technicians who refuse to acknowledge that there just might be a problem with the actual program itself. :D	MMM (5660)
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