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Subject: Re: [OM] (OM) OT I forget the subject used by Bob W
From: Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 22:52:29 +0200
Just use Firefox and stop worrying about it.

Nathan Wajsman
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On May 30, 2013, at 3:05 PM, Brian Swale wrote:

> I'm about up to -! here with some browsers !!
> 
> I've hated MS Internet Exploder since I don't know when, mainly because it 
> always seemed to be trying to control me, and I have uninstalled it as far as 
> I seem to be able to.
> Older versions of Opera are very fast and generally do exactly as asked, but 
> can't handle the code used by some sites, such as facebook; and I am given 
> to understand they pose some kind of security risk.  So I try and use them 
> judiciously.
> 
> Mozilla seems to spend much of its time trying to second-guess my 
> intentions especially when navigating around my computer directories, and 
> so wastes a huge amount of my time while it makes the computer hang.
> Chrome, which I use very little, seems to do something the same. I see it 
> uses streaming updates, which is possibly all the near continuous uploading 
> and downloading when I'm using broadband, and which slows things to a 
> crawl. 
> Sometimes in a fit of frustration I just pull the broadband plug out in the 
> hope 
> I break something. I think that works because I don't seem to see a repeat 
> of that activity for a while. If I click "disconnect" it takes forever, and I 
> suspect it is just tidying up its affairs while it thinks about disconnecting.
> 
> I have killed many of the auto-updates that I don't think are of 
> significance, 
> using Bob P's excellent program.
> 
> Bob mentioned Safari as a good ( only? ) alternative. I think I'll give that 
> a 
> shot.
> 
> Avast and Malwarebytes  reveal nothing sinister on my machine, but I'm not 
> totally convinced that there is nothing sinister taking place. I wonder if my 
> machine sometimes has been taken over by someone using it for other 
> purposes - there is such a high packet-count going both ways - in and out.
> 
> If I switch to dialup, most of the nonsense stops. But it takes forever then 
> to 
> view your images on many of the web-sites used; there is such a large 
> overhead cost in the form of clever-clogs code.
> 
> At last that's off my chest. !
> 
> Brian Swale.
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