atw: Re: Choosing your browser (WAS: MSWord 2003 with 64-bit Windows 7)

I've been using Chrome and Firefox for a while now. I like Chrome - its so 
lean. I also now use Safari on my Mac, and that works well. Enough. I have to 
use IE at various corporate clients. I am not impressed anymore. I use Firefox 
because I don't like IE.

I think the problems related to crashing and operation are also affected by the 
widgets and scripts used on websites. CMS technologies and the php scripting 
can also be a problem too in some respects. The number of tabs you have open 
for home pages also dramatically affects the performance in my experience. I 
think there is an almost exponential fall in performance the more things you 
have opening at once with these browsers.

My recent experiences with Firefox have been crashes related to the plug-ins. I 
have to have QuickTime for access to uni stuff. It is slow. Windows really 
doesn't do plug-ins well for any browser. With my Apple, my most surprising 
comment (given my use amounts to less than a week) is that it all just seems to 
work. And Adobe Flash (due to Adobe's problems with software updates) is a 
constant pain in the a$#e. I now rarely update Flash, it is so unreliable.

I had to do a treatise on scenes in "Amelie." On my windows machine the sub 
titles didn't work. Not an issue, I understand some French (Australian and real 
French) but the course is about camera work, so I don't need sound and words. 
Well, last night I did need 100% accuracy to understand the audio narrative 
about a part of the movie to tie some argument together. I couldn't do that on 
windows because the software just wouldn't. 

On the Mac, I decided to try the DVD player out before disrupting people 
watching the TV to see the subtitles. Worked, subtitles worked, I could stop 
and start, fast forward, step frames backwards. All that stuff. Windows? Only 
when I swore nicely at it and held my breath. Dunno. 

Software development isn't in the realms of rocket science anymore. It can't be 
that hard to get the basics to work, like the fundamentals, the bread and 
butter; surely?


Regards,
Warren  

-----Original Message-----
From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Christine Kent
Sent: Wednesday, 6 April 2011 10:56 AM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Choosing your browser (WAS: MSWord 2003 with 64-bit Windows 7)

I think they are all sabotaging one another.  

For lots of the Office 2010 functions, IE is automatically launched and the 
Office training will only work in IE.
I use Google Chrome, but I have been having glitches with that lately - my 
installation won't launch from links in Outlook emails, for example.

Are we up against "the great browser wars" of the 2010s?

Christine



-----Original Message-----
From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Howard Silcock
Sent: Wednesday, 6 April 2011 10:49 AM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Choosing your browser (WAS: MSWord 2003 with 64-bit Windows 7)

Why do so many people continue to use Internet Explorer? Well, one reason would 
be that, in a corporate environment, or in a government environment such as the 
one I work in, there isn't really a choice.
You can't install your own software and IE is what's supplied. You'd have to 
make a business case for using something else.

At home, however, it's obviously different. I have for a long time used Firefox 
at home. But I'm starting to have second thoughts. I just installed Firefox 4 
and find that it crashes every time I use Google.
Since using Google is something I do more or less as a reflex action, several 
times a day, this is a real problem.

Has anyone else had the same problem?

Howard
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