What wrong with IE 6?

[The Shadow]

I just can't connect with it anymore.

It just started to happen this morning.

I can surf the internet fine with Mozilla, but anything IE related
won't budge.

Any help?

Thanks.

[Hard core Rikki]

scumware and spyware. IE is popular enough of a target.

get yourself spyware search and destroy, update it and remove every malicious files from your system.

revert internet explorer's settings to default after or before that, and check again if it works ok.

[Borisz]

Go to Internet Options -> Connections and see if you have a proxy set up under either one of your internet or LAN connections.

[The Shadow]

Thanks Borisz.

That worked.

[FrostyTheSnowman]

LOL, everything is wrong with Internet Explorer. I refuse to use it.

[KanedA]

yeah FireFox is much better

[DB7]

FireFox is much better because the spyware makers don't make stuff for it. At the rate FireFox is growing in popularity it wont be long before the spyware makers realise they have a new market for their wares and FireFox gets hit just as badly as IE.

And of course since FireFox is open source, there is nothing to stop the spyware makers putting out their own version, not to mention it's going to be easier for them to get stuff into existing installs because they will have full access to the code to look for exploits.

So if you want FireFox to stay as "secure" as it is, you really don't want it to become so popular that it becomes a target.

[Hard core Rikki]

Originally Posted by DB7

And of course since FireFox is open source, there is nothing to stop the spyware makers putting out their own version.

So if you want FireFox to stay as "secure" as it is, you really don't want it to become so popular that it becomes a target.

Done already and made official. And secure by design. Remember the Google partnership? Guess what, when you do a google search from the integrated search tab, google prefetches the first websites found. Wich means that you end up with cookies from websites you never visited. You can of course disable that from the about: box, but that's as geeky a manipulation as handling source code by kiddies...

That prefetching and the lack of a "mass installer" to allow for simultaneous installations are slowing down corporate acceptance to a crawl. They're doing the latter, however disabling the earlier seems not to be in their favour.

Mozilla foundation was making about 2 millions from donations and sales. Google hands them 30 millions yearly to accept their "contribution".

[Borisz]

Originally Posted by KanedA

yeah FireFox is much better

Yea, thiiiiiiis much:

[darth sephiroth]

Uuuhh.. how did you manage to get it to use that much ram?
you haven't updated for years or something? mine uses 40mb ram, not 900 :S

[Shendo]

Open 10,000 tabs , or get a memory leak.

[ChankastRules]

Firefox is very overestimated I use it on the linux computers at school, it works okay I suppose, but having used both I certainly prefer IE.

The only page that ever gave me problems with IE is GMAIL. hmmm co-insidence? I think not.

[Hard core Rikki]

a memory leak more probably. i also got such merely after installing basic extensions, and displaying the download anager WHILE downloading something. once you close firefox, then the download manager it can happen.

with 1.5.0.5, i havent encountered it again. 100 mb of ram it was occupying on one of mine btw

[darth sephiroth]

Chankast, it's not a question of works/doesn't work with pages. It's more of a question of speed, stability and security
lol the highest i can get my ram usage on firefox is 100mb and then i had more than 10 YouTube videos playing at the same time on and equal amount of tabs. and four windows of firefox doing that same thing . I think that equaled 140 videos at the same time.
I did a similar thing in IE and the ram usage went through the roof and windows crashed with a couldn't allocate memory error.

[Celine]

ChankastRules: gmail opens just fine here...

I use IE merely out of sheer inertia. I can't be arsed to download and install another browser - I really don't care if any browser is better than the others.

[ChankastRules]

ChankastRules: gmail opens just fine here...

I tried to attatch a file to my email and it popped up a couple of hundred windows "page cannot be found" until finally 1 GB of memory was used LOL, maybe it was a temporary mishap?

Chankast, it's not a question of works/doesn't work with pages

I've never had any problems with speed with IE, as far as security goes with a decent antivir program there's never any problems. As for stability firefox on linux crash more often than IE has done on my XP so.... I don't really see what it's all about. I think the main reason is just that people like OpenSource alternatives to MS.

[darth sephiroth]

Hmm, also firefox has better interface. And if i use IE i get 20 or more popups that automatically crashes IE if i use enter to choose the default option if there is even a slightest error on a page i visit.
anyway, firefox hasn't crashed me since five updates ago. The linux version doesn't update the same way since it's written in a different way. Maybe it's just the fact that the linux version is hardly updated?

[Borisz]

Originally Posted by darth sephiroth

Hmm, also firefox has better interface. And if i use IE i get 20 or more popups that automatically crashes IE if i use enter to choose the default option if there is even a slightest error on a page i visit.

"Better interface" is relative.
And what IE are you using? I got more popups in Firefox then I got in IE ever since I upgraded to SP2. That's not even taking IE7 beta into account.

And as far as speed goes, I can open and read the page I visited in the time it takes Firefox just to start up.

[Player-X]

If for some reason Firefox isn't your cup of tea there is always opera

[Hard core Rikki]

opera version 9 also has integrated torrent handling. a safe bet.

or there's K-Meleon browser, a slimmed down cousin of Firefox that's optimized for Windows. K-Meleon is the quickest loading and along with Opera, the fastest for surfing.

On the downside there are only a limited number of add-ons and plug-ins available so you are pretty well limited to the features available in the standard product.

If you are the type of person who prefers performance to bells and whistles, K-Meleon is your best bet.