Hi all, definitely gotta tell you all about this, you've got to get these two, Thunderbird 1.0 and Firefox 1.0 .

See here... www.mozilla.org

If you've been using Microsoft Internet Explorer 4,5,6, then you'll be used to pages loading slowly, and often not displaying at all. If so, I recommend you get Firefox and hold on to your seat.

Also, I have just purchase and installed a prog called PC BOOSTER, and I can tell you now that it does what it says, and I'm well please with what it has done for my PC, which badly needed a Tune-up. This prog goes into the operating system, and thoroughly tests all the processes that deal specifically with PC performance, and tunes them up to optimum, and it found my system was lacking, and produced a 485% increase in overall performance, and I can really see the difference now.

So I do recommend that you check out this prog, it's not expensive, I paid �19.95 UK sterling.

See here...

PC BOOSTER

Saludos .......Santiago

yoo hoo, love that firefox. Downloaded a while ago and what an improvement over IE.

My brother, who works for F-Secure, a data/software protection service provider, says it is the best out there.

Irene

That's for sure Irene, it really does Fly don't it, I'm quite pleased with it, even when opening pages on websites that are known to be very sluggish & heavy, I can see that the pages are just hitting the screen faster than I have ever seen them.

How about Thunderbird 1.0 have you tried that too?
Anyone else on multimadrid taken the plunge and installed Firefox yet? If so, what do you think?

I noticed the difference in page speed immediately, it is SO, SO fast. On IE-6 XP-SP2, I kept getting ship loads of page errors, blank/white pages, page cannot be found messages all the time, I was getting quite sick of it, but not anymore, now I've got my Firefox , now I am fully appreciating the benefits of having an adsl Broadband line of 1.1 Mbps (Wanadoo) as I have now taken that power/speed robbing, bug ridden sponge of a browser (IE6) out of the equation, and with the additional Tweak up from PC Booster, my PC & operating system are really flying.


Saludos.......Santiago :cheers:

:jeje: Have absolutely no idea whatever, about what you were talking about in that last paragraph! But, my daughter has Firefox via Mozilla......and it drives her crazy, not allowing her to access sites when she wants to etc etc. She actually disables it!! Any idea what the problem could be?

Could be that she has got her security settings up too high, and/or her privacy setting is to high, thus blocking cookies, and if the websites can't get your browser to accept a cookie, then she would not be allowed to access the site. With most sites these days, your browser needs to allow certain things to be, or you just won't be able to use those sites, like Active-X- controls, mobile code, Java script, Cookies and so on, and like with my firewall (ZoneAlarm Pro 5.5 with Web filtering, it is a problem for me too sometimes when I cannot get something on a website to work, simply because I have disabled and not allowed those things to be downloaded into my system, and until I go into the control panel and "allow" them, I can't access those facilities on the website. So assuming it is not her Firewall (if she is using one) then perhaps in her internet options, there are things that are set too high and blocking things out. Try going into the control panel, internet options, and set all for "default" and that usually does the trick.

Saludos.......Santiago

I don't Firefox is actually any faster than Internet Explorer. I would think webpage loading depends on your own connection and the server of the webpage.

But for security reasons, I do use Firefox instead of Internet Explorer. With IE, trojans and adware always seemed to find a way to self-install on my computer.

It hasn't happened even once while using Firefox. Sometimes I get a download window asking if I want to run/install some EXE file. With IE, it probably would have went and installed it without asking me.

Thunderbird is a nice alternative to Outlook Express as well.

Trojans.....Jeeeez, tell me something new, I just lost a load of stuff 2 nights ago, url's, program shortcuts, desktop Icons, and ALL of my stored E-mails in one hit, (and I've got and had for a long time) Nortons Anti Virus & Utilities, and ZoneAlarm Pro, Spybot, PestPatrol, Adaware, etc, and still I got Zapped.
What's the world coming to Man!!

Saludos.......Santiago

I do believe firefox is much faster than IE. Have not experienced any problems.

Do not mean to sound like an ad, but I use F-Secure for virus protection. Link to here

But then again, I am a little biased as my brother works there.

Irene

"Viruses? Trojans? Spam? What are those, Master?" he asks while typing, surfing, emailing, and downloading contentedly on his Powerbook.

"Ah, Grasshopper. These are the wages of succumbing to the PC. "

"What is the PeeCee, Master?"

"The PC. It is the People's Curse."

"How must one free thyself from the Curse?"

"Dispose of that which causes the affliction instead of merely applying salves. Seek a new path and be not afraid to learn a new way. Separate thyself from the masses for they are mostly wrong. They might mock you at first but you will be comforted by the cessation of the barrage of ills incurred by the PC. "

"You are most wise, Master."

"I speak only from experience."

Thanks for the link Irene, I might just take your advice and install F-Secure, it looks like a pretty good product, and even though I just had to re-install Nortons AntiVirus, and update the anual subscription until next January, because I have been Zapped about 3 times over the last year or so, I'm starting to get a bit worried about whether Nortons AV is as secure as it is supposed to be, so I might yet ditch it in favor of F-Secure. That in conjunction with Thunderbird 1.0 I think should be somewhat safer, as I just lost about a hundred e-mails stored in my outlook express folders.

And you know what, I can actually see the difference between IE6 and Firefox, although it's true to say that I have got an extremely fast set up here, (1.1 Mpbs adsl) on a Pentium 2.5 Ghz PC with 1000 Plus Megabytes of fast 266 Mhz Ram on a 800 Mhz fsb, and an O/S which has been tweaked up for higher performance etc, I can still see how much faster it is loading pages on webstes that I know to be really really slow, and like cmunkee said, it is known to be a more secure browser than IE, so I think unless I need IE for some reason, I'll stick with the Fox.

Anyway, Irene, I'll let you know how it goes if I decide to ditch Nortons and install F-S.

:cheers: