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ablomov
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22 Jul 2012, 12:02 pm

hello tech ppl .. does this happen often, my IE freezes and so having to use firefox which so far a week later is still fast...

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22 Jul 2012, 12:09 pm

It doesn't take a tech person to know that IE is crap. Only use it if you have to.

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22 Jul 2012, 12:12 pm

I only use IE to test if a website is truly down or is it my browser. Otherwise, IE sucks!

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22 Jul 2012, 12:36 pm

pse elucidate....

for me over six years IE functioned perfectly well, over a lot of web browsing.

so why did it screw up?? .. an 0 change to a 1 ?

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22 Jul 2012, 12:55 pm

You have a plugin you didn't have before. It might have been installed through an exploit. Check your plugins.

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22 Jul 2012, 1:04 pm

Tsk, tsk. Such vitriol! Blasphemy! Actually, I use Windows 8 which uses IE 10. It's very stable and I am happy.

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22 Jul 2012, 1:30 pm

Agreed. There are a lot of people on this site who get totally carried away with the anti-Microsoft thing, which is kind of 14 years out of date.

I will say that the lack of standards support lasts to this day though and it frustrates developers.

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23 Jul 2012, 12:31 pm

Please... Please! Switch to Chrome.
Its way better then IE or Firefox. Chrome will notify you of some phishers and other malicious sites plus its fast.

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23 Jul 2012, 12:42 pm

Madbones wrote:

Please... Please! Switch to Chrome.
Its way better then IE or Firefox. Chrome will notify you of some phishers and other malicious sites plus its fast.

Settle down cowboy. It's just a browser. They're all fast unless you have spyware like the OP.

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23 Jul 2012, 12:44 pm

MyFutureSelfnMe wrote:

Madbones wrote:

Please... Please! Switch to Chrome.
Its way better then IE or Firefox. Chrome will notify you of some phishers and other malicious sites plus its fast.

Settle down cowboy. It's just a browser. They're all fast unless you have spyware like the OP.

I Suppose... Im on a bit of a mission to switch everyone to Chrome atm :lol:

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23 Jul 2012, 2:13 pm

IE always takes at least twice as long to load as Firefx or Chrome for me, and it tends to freeze and crash sometimes, especially when JavaScript is involved. I don't think I have spyware. My dad scans the computer with up-to-date virus scanning software pretty regularly...

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23 Jul 2012, 2:41 pm

UnLoser wrote:

The fact that you can discern the startup time of any of your browsers says you have issues with your system.

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23 Jul 2012, 2:49 pm

Well, the startup time for all of my browsers is just a few seconds, but IE takes much longer to load web pages. That's what I meant by load.

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23 Jul 2012, 3:55 pm

that with IE the page being viewed froze and wld not drop down or delete. also slowed down to arse achingly slow in general.

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23 Jul 2012, 4:37 pm

ablomov wrote:

that with IE the page being viewed froze and wld not drop down or delete. also slowed down to arse achingly slow in general.

Was it the plugin?

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25 Jul 2012, 8:35 pm

MyFutureSelfnMe wrote:

You have a plugin you didn't have before. It might have been installed through an exploit. Check your plugins.

Finally, Someone who does not answer the question with "IE is crap"

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IE is crap.

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