Vcas

My IE will not load web pages!! NO Encodeing? No add ons?
What the He...! I even downloaded it to start from scratch.
No luck. Any1 have any ideas?

pejakm

Get rid of it and install something else (my advice: Opera).

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I actually posted awhile back in favor of IE, however I've since found a browser that's far superior to it Avast. This sucker runs like lightning, never fails to open a website. You can also input all your favorites from I'm at the click of a button. Find it far superior to Firefox and Opera also. Kick IE and go to Avast.

alan1476

I think you mean Avant don't you? Avast is an anti-virus application.

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gameman007

Yes, Sorry about that it is Avant. However the weird thing is I noticed it and edited the post as well as put a link in to the download page which obviously didn't take.

alan1476

No worrys, I think everyone knew what you meant anyway, in my experience ( and I have tried all of them,) The Maxathon Browser is my favorite, it just seems more stable than the others.

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videobruce

I have used Opera for the past 6+ years.

When will people wake up. IE is the worst program out there (other then their O/S itself)!

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gamma1

I tried again with the latest free version of Opera. It is a nice program, BUT I went back to IE 6 (WinXP). Reason: I couldn't get Opera to load a stock-charting service I use and I got tired of setting View/120% or View/150%. IE just loads and plays all the pages without having to rescale. This is a problem I have noticed with all browsers except IE. The others can't seem to get it right. IE6 is the worst browser out there except for all the others! Firefox Ha Ha, Safari Wormy Apple. And another thing: IE 6 takes up the least desktop real estate (without going to the full screen mode) of anything else, including IE7. Someone posted about Avant: that's one I haven't tried but plan to give it a try..... depressed and downhearted, with them ol' browser bluze again, gamma1.

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videobruce

Post the URL of the site. I will bet the site fails validation. It's just another of the many 'lame' sites that has a webmaster that either;

doesn't know what he is doing,
doesn't care,
gets paid by M$ (in one form or another) to write ONLY for Idiot Exploiter, blocking out any other browser.
It's NOT Opera!!!

BTW; You can right click on any page and choose 'Validate'. It will send you to the W3C validation page and give you the list of what's wrong with the page you are validating;

http://validator.w3.org/

and a less strick;
http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/

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Session9

I used to use IE when we got our first computer. Found out about Firefox on some forum site about a year ago and have used it since.
I like the look of it better, it's a bit faster for me, and the add ons seem to give you more control over it.

Just out of curiosity, how many different browsers are there?
I've only really heard of IE, Firefox, Opera and Netscape.

Oh, and is it really worth changing to Opera? Some seem to think it's a lot better than Firefox.

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videobruce

Netscape is pretty much a dead issue thanks to YOL (Yuppies On Line), er AOL. There are IE skin add ons that use IEs' core engine with a different user interface (I think that is the correct description), but it is still IE w/ all the bloat and security holes.


1. Opera is the only browser that includes a e-mail client. It's onlt a plain text cleint, but that is ok with me. Why run two program when one works. There is one downside; ytou have to leave all the mail in the "Received" folder. They can't be moved elsewhere as with separate e-mail programs. If you save most of your e-mail, that will be a problem.

2. It has a very hightly configable separate .ini file that can now be edited within the browser in a web page instead of using Notepad as had to be done in V8 and before.

3. All the files are stored in the Opera program folder, NOT buried under that stupid 'Documents & Settings folder as long as you check that there will be only one user durning setup.

4. Cache, history, cookies can be deleted on exit. Passwords (called Wand data) are a separate file which is unaffected unless you want then deleted also.

5. It is fully W3C compliant. (I believe Firefox is also). Doubt you can say this about Idiot Exploiter. If a site doesn't work in Opera, that fault is the site, NOT Opera.

6. It's not IE. And since it isn't IE, there are far less security concerns since virus coders don't bother with it since they can achive a bigger 'payload' from IE.

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coolcolors

I would put my voice to FF rather then go Opera...although it loads fast and doesn't clutter up the browser screen like FF...besides there more plugins for FF then opera that I seen...so that would also be a incentive to stay with FF as they will come out soon with FF3...but I would still IE7, FF, Mozilla, Mozilla FF, Netscape, Opera on my system for browser options. I will remove Netscape on the next download of FF3 when it comes out as Netscape has stopped updating and support for Netscape at the end of March 2008 and I also plan to remove Mozilla as well. So I will be left with IE7, FF, Opera the three I used most and switch back and forth with. Cause some sites won't display properly with FF or Opera so I use IE7 to see what I am missing on those sites. So in the end don't just limited your browser options to one application. But if you keep IE7 make sure it is updated regularly that will keep it working and going smoothly for you.

IdontexistM8

I use Maxthon and Opera. Very rarely use Firefox, have no need or desire to.

videobruce

To add another advanatge to my list I forgot;

7. Many features that are included with Opera have to be added with Firefox. Twi things; location of the tab buttons and the ability to close the tab. Both are standard w/ Opera, but have to be added with FF.

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mciahel

The User's profile folder is the correct location for that kind of data, especially if multi-user operating systems like Windows NT series (from NT 4.0 up to Vista) or Unix flavours are used.
Storing user related files in the program's folder is for Win95 users or botnet supporters.
Only acceptable exception: Opera shall be run off a removable drive like a USB stick or external HDD.

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gamma1

Tried to upgrade IE6 to IE7. On my laptop it was actually much slower, don't know why. And still made a mess of thestreet dot com page. Rolled back system to IE6. Also trying FireFox 2, seems a lot faster. I will use this more. But why, oh why can't FF figure out that I have a widescreen monitor on my laptop. Pages get scrunched to the side or middle. And I'm always scaling up and down with CTRL + or - . The only way some pages appear correctly is with CTRL -- a couple of times until the print is tiny, tiny, tiny. Oh well.....

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gamma1

Changed and now sticking with FF. Faster than IE. Loads all my pages. However, why doesn't it recognize that I have a widescreen monitor all the time??? Regards, gamma1

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packrat2112

i tried ff a while back, but the thing that i didn't like about it was that, say you're in a forum (like this), and you click on a link that someone has posted, then you want to go "back" to where you were, ff takes you to the top of the page you were at but not to the "exact place" you were at on the page.

i hate that.

i don't know about opera or avant, as i haven't tried them yet.

anyone?

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cremestar

well isn't avant basically the i.e. engine though? and also, sometimes, returning to the top of the page is a good thing (at the very least, for me) - but yeah, for forums, that can be a little bit annoying. if you want to stay at the same place, then just open the link in a new tab.

at any rate...

IE sucks, Firefox will rule the world! (except in stupid/ritarded/insecure ActiveX land)

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