Firefox

[Ruatine]

I just downloaded the Firefox browser. It ROCKS! I've fallen in love with it. *dumps IE into garbage* *bows and worships Firefox*

The tabs, the dictionary.com and Google and Amazon search bar... *drools*

[The Lady Shael]

Hehe, yes, once I used Firefox, I never went back to IE. My family finds it annoying, because they're still stuck to IE and refuse to use Firefox.

[Retto]

Get mouse gestures. Seriously, it makes it so much better. It's annoying for me to use any other browser, because they don't have my mouse gestures (and I have a lot of browsers installed on my computers)

[Nohcnonk]

It's better than IE, but Firefox still isn't perfect.  I've had a lot of ad-ware problems with Firefox that are extremely diffiicult to get rid of.

[windhound]

lol
ad-ware stuff is a /windoze/ issue
my firefox on linux has absolutely no ad-ware issues
and konqueror does everything that IE does (ftp for one) perfectly

I suggust Spybot and AdAware for your issues ^_^

[ohmyjapan16]

Opera's pretty good, except for that little advertisement bar, which I can live with. Firefox is teh best.

[Nohcnonk]

I have Spybot and AdAware. *twitch*  I don't think Linux is a good idea for our computer, everyone would be too confused...

[windhound]

=-P

linux aint bad, Fedora and SuSe, especially SuSe, are very user-friendly (and FREE!)
the main thing with linux is that it isnt really game-friendly yet..

I use Fedora Core 4, and I've had less issue with it than with windows..  windows breaks itself, linux is user-error if it breaks..  (and I've broken mine a few times) and its smart..  it repaired its own file system error..  amused me..

SuSe is made by Novell (big security company) and is extremely user-friendly..  its pretty..  but I'm loath to abandon Fedora..

but yeah, windows is better for standards, 'cause everyone uses its crappyness ^_^

Disney uses linux (Redhat 9) for most of their computers =-D

yay for people using Firefox though..  maybe it'll replace IE as preferred browser..  IE just..  evilness..
but, IE auto-updates with windows update, you have to make sure you get the Firefox updates as they come out (linux grabs the updates for me)

[Nohcnonk]

Isn't there a way you can run linux but be able to switch to Windows for games or something (like I said, I don't know anything about Linux)?

No one out there has a Mac, right..?

[windhound]

'called Dual boot system
most linux installers can resize the hdd for you, or partitian magic can..  linux likes ~15 gigs of space, I give mine 25, but 6 of that is music...
's what I did, I can boot into windows when I need to for some graphics stuff + games

I wants a mac..  but no moneys..  maybe after they swap for intel processors I can get one of the older powerpc versions for 1/2 way cheap..

if you want to look at linux, Knoppix (google it) is a decent live-cd (loads into ram, doesnt touch your hdd..  basically when you eject the disk its like it was never there)  not the prettiest, but alright..  if you have a DVD burner the SuSe live eval is awesome.. 

[Nohcnonk]

I just downloaded the mouse gestures... they're pretty awesome.

[Retto]

I use firefox still on my Mac Mini, though Safari runs more natively (it's cocoa. Or I have a version of the WebKit renderer that's Cocoa. Really great graphics fun on that) - mostly for the extensions that make it invaluable when I'm just lazily browsing, or stuff like Web Developer which saves me lots of trouble when I'm coding and developing.

I don't do most of my browsing on the windows machine - only sites that I make or ones that I trust, so I don't have very big issues with adware...but Spybot and AdWare did help when I was doing a lot of browsing on it. Windows machines...I don't know. I don't think Microsoft wanted to design an operating system that needs a clean wipe every year or two, but they did, and maybe they should concentrate on making that easier, so their machines last longer and you loose less data.