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| Thread ID: 140195 | 2015-09-02 00:41:00 | Windows 10 Feature? | johcar (6283) | PC World Chat |
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| 1407783 | 2015-09-02 06:38:00 | I think that question was a bit of sarcasm....... :) this will answer the original Office question in #5 www.youtube.com clearly I'm not on Driftwoods wavelength as its not really a funny joke. |
nmercer (3899) | ||
| 1407784 | 2015-09-02 08:19:00 | I wanted to like edge, I really prefer not to have multiple different browsers installed and just have 1. It's fast, clean and, well, in practice horrible to use. Sure it's not really microsofts fault but it doesn't matter who's responsible if other browsers deal with websites better then that's what will be used. The internet is a minefield of unwanted content and annoying adds are the least of it. Plug-ins or similar are almost mandatory if you want a pleasant browsing experience. The hosts file is ok but it doesn't do as good a job. Within a day of trying edge I'd come across sites that didn't display properly and had all kinds of pop-ups and adds I don't usually have to deal with, within a week I'd had enough and resorted to installing FF. On Netflix Edge works perfectly, proof that as a browser it can do the Job. Unfortunately websites without unwanted content are becoming unusual. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1407785 | 2015-09-03 03:14:00 | Plugins are not mandatory The web is very quickily moving away from flash, activex etc to html The modern web is plugin-free Try uninstalling flash and see what happens I think you'll be pleasantly surprised |
nmercer (3899) | ||
| 1407786 | 2015-09-03 03:26:00 | I did half the sites I visit still need flash | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1407787 | 2015-09-03 03:32:00 | clearly I'm not on Driftwoods wavelength as its not really a funny joke. Bit like a big fish though, didn't you. I think it was hilarious by the way. |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1407788 | 2015-09-03 04:36:00 | Plugins are not mandatory The web is very quickily moving away from flash, activex etc to html The modern web is plugin-free Try uninstalling flash and see what happens I think you'll be pleasantly surprised You'll note I said "almost" mandatory and then "if you want a pleasant browsing experience" Sure you can live without them if you don't mind a screen full of adds and pop-ups and random audio playing out of nowhere, bottom line is I use plug-ins to combat all the bad practices of many websites. Especially some of the more dodgy websites I won't pretend I don't visit. Not the browsers fault as I said but I still will stick with one that lets me block all that rubbish. I never mentioned flash but enough sites do still use it to mean I always end up installing it again, sure that's reducing but it's still very common at the moment. Try The daily trivia quiz on stuff without it for example. By Quickly moving away from plug-ins I assume you mean all the well funded larger sites are while the rest of the web changes when it has to and not before. The plug-ins I want are not flash or active-X etc, it's addblock+, addblock+ pop-up blocker, NZ dictionary, that sort of thing. If I'm using the wrong terminology apologies, those are the things that edge lacks that makes it unusable for me. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1407789 | 2015-09-03 07:42:00 | True; it is unusable for web browsing at the moment. It may have other qualities which I do not require. We have a large selection of browsers and most of them are good, so why waste time on yet another one. Even the browsers for Linux are good if you import the commonly used Windows fonts. | mzee (3324) | ||
| 1407790 | 2015-09-03 08:06:00 | True; it is unusable for web browsing at the moment. It may have other qualities which I do not require. We have a large selection of browsers and most of them are good, so why waste time on yet another one. Even the browsers for Linux are good if you import the commonly used Windows fonts.Edge is replacing one browser that is not good, with another that is not finished (yet). ;) | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1407791 | 2015-09-03 22:45:00 | You'll note I said "almost" mandatory and then "if you want a pleasant browsing experience" Sure you can live without them if you don't mind a screen full of adds and pop-ups and random audio playing out of nowhere, bottom line is I use plug-ins to combat all the bad practices of many websites. Especially some of the more dodgy websites I won't pretend I don't visit. Not the browsers fault as I said but I still will stick with one that lets me block all that rubbish. I never mentioned flash but enough sites do still use it to mean I always end up installing it again, sure that's reducing but it's still very common at the moment. Try The daily trivia quiz on stuff without it for example. By Quickly moving away from plug-ins I assume you mean all the well funded larger sites are while the rest of the web changes when it has to and not before. The plug-ins I want are not flash or active-X etc, it's addblock+, addblock+ pop-up blocker, NZ dictionary, that sort of thing. If I'm using the wrong terminology apologies, those are the things that edge lacks that makes it unusable for me. I guess you mean extensions not plugins |
nmercer (3899) | ||
| 1407792 | 2015-09-03 22:46:00 | Bit like a big fish though, didn't you. I think it was hilarious by the way. and if Microsoft did include an Office suite in its OS, I'm sure you'd be the first to get up in arms about it |
nmercer (3899) | ||
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