Not true! IE is good for pRon searching becuz its so much easier to erase things for my mom and lil bros to not stumble across.
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Not true! IE is good for pRon searching becuz its so much easier to erase things for my mom and lil bros to not stumble across.
Lol, don't do that, man. Chances are that you got your computer full of malware already. Especially by browsing porn sites. Regardless of your browser configuration, remote sites may do this to you:
● Install viruses and trojans or execute commands which end up fscking up your Windows install.
● Install adware and spyware and submit your sensible personal data to somebody's databases.
● Install keyloggers and submit your passwords, credit card numbers, and sensible personal online and offline data to somebody.
● Use your computer as a node to conduct illegal activities such as proxying for child pornography or spamming third parties.
And don't think any of these points are infrequent at all; in fact, like I'm saying, chances are you're already suffering from one or more of these, probably more.
Not only that, but Internet Explorer is a dead, broken, slow, buggy browser and by using it you're killing the web, which cannot evolve as MSIE won't evolve with it.
I strongly recommend you to switch over to Mozilla/Firefox/Opera. Deleting evidence in them is much easier anyways. Did you know you always leave evidence with MSIE, no matter what you do to delete it (unless you kill Explorer.exe and delete some files by hand)? The buttons to delete offline contents and cookies aren't effective; in fact, there are bugs in MSIE preventing it from deleting everything.
Finally, Mozilla/Firefox is faster, and you especially note it when browsing porn.
I already do use Mozilla(Firefox), I just save IE for anything I want to get rid of because I do find myself frequently bored and do go through by hand and delete evidence of being there. (I get pretty bored sometimes >.< ) Without trying I can almost guarentee that Mozilla would be much better for this but I can't do it as I feel I dont want to even soil Mozilla with my smut ^^
<font color="#345E81" size="1">[ September 30, 2005 11:37 PM: Message edited by: Blahguy ]</font>
But you're exposing your system to a lot of crap (including stuff that could get you in serious trouble), especially around porn sites. You could easily get Firefox (if you're using Mozilla) or Opera and use them for porn (hint: Opera zooms images too), then you can manually delete their cache, cookies, history, and URL history without affecting your main browser.
Opera is now free and has no banners. Its looking like a good option.
I tried it, it looked lightweight and had a couple nice features (image zoom, although it doesn't resample, and text-to-speech; voice commands didn't work too well though). The engine is simpler sometimes and it can't do some things, like the transparent IFRAME I've used in the Granaboard website for the news, but it's generally acceptable, which means a thousand times better than the crappy MSIE implementation, and its the CSS2 implementation is even better than Mozilla's.
Overall I prefer Mozilla though, but Opera is a very worthy browser. All my websites will be tested and guaranteed to work in both Gecko-based (Mozilla, Firefox, Camino...) browsers and Opera, and god can fuck MSIE because I won't even try it.
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Edit: I've made a Browser CSS quality comparison. The Acid2 test tries most advanced features from the CSS web standards (vital to making any decent website). The reference image is how everything should look like. It uses very advanced features few have ever implemented, so it's normal that no browser will look exactly like that. But they shouldn't feature red/orange parts, or the "ERROR" word anywhere, and they should still show a face (eyes are somewhat forgettable).
As you can see, to say MSIE is bugged and broken was an understatement. It's just crap. And that crap prevents web developers from using features to improve everyone's web experience. As long as people use MSIE, we can't do awesome stuff. The sooner you drop MSIE, the sooner the web gets better. Besides, MSIE is dead, it won't get improved, and BTW, MSIE 7 shows it exactly the same, because it's not a real browser update, but a joke.
<font color="#345E81" size="1">[ October 02, 2005 05:04 PM: Message edited by: -Wiseman- ]</font>
BTW, here's a tweaking guide Mozilla and Firefox users should have a look at:
http://www.tweakguides.com/Firefox_4.html
Starting from here, scroll to the next pages until the end. If the about:config section mentions an option switch you can't find, you can always erase your search box, right click any option, and click New+String (if it's text), Integer (if it's a number) or Boolean (if it's a true/false or enabled/disabled switch). BTW, ignore what the guide says about disabling prefetching, leave network.prefetch-next enabled.
Here's another less-comprehensive tweaking guide:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=53650
And finally, here are some tips:
http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/tips
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ATTN Mozilla Suite users: The Mozilla Foundation has phased out the Mozilla Suite in favour of Firefox, which means 1.7 is the last release of the suite and further minor 1.7.x releases will only fix any bugs there might be found. However, do not despair; if you prefer the Mozilla Suite over Firefox+Thunderbird+stuff, look for the upcoming SeaMonkey browser which has taken over the project and will release its first version soon. It's basically Mozilla 1.7.x updated and revamped with new features, including:
● Flash blocking, YAY!
● SVG support without Adobe software, YAY!
These two are probably the best features they could add for the first release.
<font color="#345E81" size="1">[ October 01, 2005 03:10 PM: Message edited by: -Wiseman- ]</font>
Normally, you can't do much as it's tightly (forcefully, I'd say) integrated with the OS. Even if you remove IEXPLORE.EXE, you can get to it by typing a URL in Windows Explorer. Other applications (Winamp's minibrowser, BitComet web features) will use the MSHTML control too, which is basically MSIE, and one of the reasons why getting completely rid of it might not be a good idea.
But you can hack this and that and make it less usable, or attempt at completely removing it, which is a long process and can lead to stability issues. The commercial version of XPLite will do it for you, but I don't know if it's that good an idea, for the aforementioned reasons.
How can you uninstall Explorer?