For someone who claims at every turn to have blocked/ignored me and consigned my posts to oblivion, you certainly seem to have an interesting obsession with me. I'm unsure what you're trying to suggest by it, but at this point it seems to have gone beyond just tech-talk.
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which browser do you use and why
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For someone who claims at every turn to have blocked/ignored me and consigned my posts to oblivion, you certainly seem to have an interesting obsession with me. I'm unsure what you're trying to suggest by it, but at this point it seems to have gone beyond just tech-talk.
took you off just to see your response to this. Only read your orginal one threw Javs quotes
My opinion on Safari stands. I think it is the worse of the choices on any system I use and I flat out refuse to use it. For me it goes Chrome, FF then IE in that order. If it does not work on any of those then forget it. Not worth it. I refuse to go to safari.
If people only use what is installed default on their system then they are missing out.
Firefox is default on I know several Linux distros.
On any system I run after a fresh install one of the first things I do is go out and grab my standard browsers. Now that is Chrome and FF. After that I go grab my standard extension for each one and from time to time go look threw what I have running to see if there are any I want to dumb. I also go threw and look to see if their are any new ones out there that get my attention.
Standard extentions are Ad-block, IE Tab, weather, and bug-me-not.
Those are my standards ones. After that I tend to go after flash blocking ones and then some other ones that are more specialized but not in my standard list..
Can someone help me out with Safari settings? Please? I was looking for info on 'stocks' .. went to a link.. opened it.. and the window immediately changed to streaming porn.
I'm new to Mac and Safari.. I looked around.. I've got my settings on 'prevent popups'.. all I can think about is what if my kids went on my computer innocently and this trash shows up..
Can this be prevented??
Thanks for any tips!
I'm new to Mac and Safari.. I looked around.. I've got my settings on 'prevent popups'.. all I can think about is what if my kids went on my computer innocently and this trash shows up..
Can this be prevented??
Thanks for any tips!
That's weird. I've never had things like that happen. Clear you cache, cookies, etc etc, and do that adware scanning thing.
Wish I could be more help, but truthfully 99% of the time stuff like this only happens after a period, however brief and fleeting, of naughty and/or dumb browsing.
That's weird. I've never had things like that happen. Clear you cache, cookies, etc etc, and do that adware scanning thing.
Wish I could be more help, but truthfully 99% of the time stuff like this only happens after a period, however brief and fleeting, of naughty and/or dumb browsing.
Thanks for your reply.
Would you consider telling a newbie how to clear a cache and cookies and et et and where the adware scanning thing is?
Thanks again
Chrome, because it's lightning fast and has industry-leading features like tab management, powerful customizability without being cumbersome, and an app store.
Industry leading features? Opera and Firefox had better tab management well before Chrome.
Chrome was the first with a process per tab feature though, which I guess is what the guy you are replying to was hinting at.
Ah fair enough. I figured he was talking about the visual way tabs are managed which in Chrome isn't all that spectacular. In Chrome the only tab management feature I ever used was pinning tabs. Opera and Firefox both have ways to group tabs (Opera's is easier and more straight forward).
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8B118 Safari/6531.22.7)
Firefox 4 beta, seems like it's faster and uses less memory than Google Chrome (which was my primary browser but it has issues like not starting downloads at first try and seems like it uses way more memory than before) these days. I love the font smoothing on Safari (since I'm on Windows) but the speed is a hit or miss for me. I won't use Internet Explorer at home for long, but at school the computers use IE7 but I can just install Google Chrome.
Firefox 4 beta, seems like it's faster and uses less memory than Google Chrome (which was my primary browser but it has issues like not starting downloads at first try and seems like it uses way more memory than before) these days. I love the font smoothing on Safari (since I'm on Windows) but the speed is a hit or miss for me. I won't use Internet Explorer at home for long, but at school the computers use IE7 but I can just install Google Chrome.
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Firefox, for the bazillion Add-ons and consistent UI. Windows at work, Linux at home and OS X on the road.
That's a good point. Off my Mac, I use Firefox for Windows, Linux, and IRIX. Dunno why I haven't bothered to use it on my Mac as well.
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When I'm on my MBP Safari because ts just the normal thing to use
When I'm on my PC It has to be Google Chrome because it's just super fast
When I'm on my MBP Safari because ts just the normal thing to use
When I'm on my PC It has to be Google Chrome because it's just super fast
What's abnormal about using Chrome or Firefox or any other browser option available for OS X ?
I swear Safari users have the funniest reasons to use it.
Empty the cache with Option-Command-E, or click Safari > Reset Safari. It'll ask you to select the checkboxes next to each item you want to reset.
As far as checking for adware, I don't know of an app in particular - search on Bing or Google. I've never had a use for it I only suggested it 'cause what you had sounded like a symptom of adware.
I have tried to switch to chrome from safari, and even gave it a 1 week trial run, but I keep coming back to Safari. Theres nothing dislike about it, and nothing I really want not in it. Its integrated with OSX,works really well and looks beautiful.
This is what I use.
I recently got the Rockmelt beta, which is basically chrome with facebook and twitter integration.
I like chrome the best for one reason. The url menu is also the google search.