Browser recommendations

[Robert]

I've currently got Firefox installed now with the following plugins:

Flashgot
Adblock Plus

I get the following issues quite frequently:

Page part loads and says "Stopped" in bottom left corner.

Sometimes pages do not load at all

Images are sometimes broken on reputable websites


I may try using a proxy but things usually work fine in IE (which is looking more and more appealing to me).

[Mark]

Try it with the plugins disabled, in case it's those that are causing it. Ad blocking in particular I've had trouble with before (though I haven't used that specific plugin as I don't use any FF plugins at all).

[Feek]

I had that with my FF on my old XP box, the only way around it once it had dropped into that mode was to close and reopen FF.

Deleting my FF profile cured it iirc.

[Will]

As long as you don't use IE7 anything else will work fine! ;D

[Mark]

You don't like IE7 then? ;D

I'm not overly keen on it either, but then I'm not overly sure about the whole Vista thing either. :huh:

[Will]

I've just had lots of problems with it - keeps crashing, some sites just don't work properly... maybe it's just me, but I'm happy with IE6 if I have to use it.

[Mark]

Same btw. I don't think I'll ever forgive MS for doing away with proper menu bars (yes, I know you can get them back). :)

[Daz]

I actually quite like IE7, over IE6 anyway. And Vista is growing on me hugely from and end user experience point of view. From an admin point of view it can be frustrating, but I'll reserve final judgement until I see a gold version of Longhorn.

[Robert]

Does anyone have an idea why some images won't load? For example if I browse products on www.millets.co.uk - some images won't load and require me to right click and select "view image". It's the same on other sites as well.

[Mark]

That'd quite possibly be your Adblock Plus plugin. Try it without.

[Robert]

No, the problem was there before it (as where the others,that is there before any plugins were installed).

[Mark]

Well, I've never had any trouble with Millets site (save for when it's been completely defunct) with both FF 1.5 and FF 2.0, so :huh:

[Haly]

Did you try what Feek suggested? Delete the firefox profile and try again?

[Mark]

Oops, I should have also recommended that. It's a common cure-all as far as Firefox is concerned, particularly if you've got plugins and have upgraded lots. Of course, what I did to fix my networking woes (reinstalling the whole OS) works too, but it's a bit extreme. :)

[LeperousDust]

Yes its avoiding the problem, but have you tried Opera? I'm using it now, have done for years now, and its the best viable option to FF and/or IE apart from some random thing Daz likes to do with his bookmarks (weirdo) everything else can be replicated by opera (and is more integrated so you dont get extension conflicts). You can even get away with the portable profiles (like Daz wants) but i'm not going to pretend it didn't look easy.

Anyways opera is free and VERY fast and stable, so give it a go :)

[Flibster]

I'm running Opera USB at the moment - runs of a memory stick and leaves nothing on the host PC. Plus it means I can take my settings anywhere with me that has USB access.

Will probably install Opera again soon, but this is going me just fine at the moment.

Simon/~Flibster

[LeperousDust]

The USB isn't a bad sollution, but Daz wouldn't accept that as a solution as his google thingymabob (which i agree) does work better. I would use USB too, but its impractical since i move my laptop around all over the house and the USB thing is something i'd break off by accident ;D

[Daz]

I do have PortableFirefox loaded on my USB stick, and it also has browser sync installed :) I use that on random PC's, but not on any of my machines because it's slower.