Interesting Game on my Desktop - it is called IE8 [modified]

[keencomputer]

I just realized IE8 could be seen as a game. The higher number of time you can crash- you win.

Tapas Shome System Software Engineer Keen Computer Solutions 1408 Erin Street Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada R3E 2S8 http://www.keencomputer.com www.ias-research.com/blog

modified on Friday, July 17, 2009 11:59 PM

[Christian Graus]

Are you winning ?

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[smcnulty2000]

Sort of like Lunar Lander, but with opposite goals. That would make Chrome a motorcycle game. And Firefox? Something to do with flying a Russian fighter jet.

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[OriginalGriff]

My wife automatically updated her PC and installed that over her IE7. When it rebooted, it disconnected her from browsing the web completely... Hello Firefox!

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[Uwe Keim]

Firefox 3.5 took 60 seconds to start, now Firefox 3.5.1 killed my Adblock Plus. ==> Hello Google Chrome!

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[koolprasad2003]

i think IE6 was really good................... :)

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[LloydA111]

Well if it helps, you can run IE7 but with the IE6 UI, by opening "C:\windows\ie7\iexplore.exe" :-D Although it is just IE7, I prefer using it this way as I prefer the UI of IE6 :laugh:

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[Kevin McFarlane]

I thought IE 6 was really good when it first came out. Today I think it's dreadful.

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[Kevin McFarlane]

Uwe Keim wrote:

Firefox 3.5.1 killed my Adblock Plus. Hello Google Chrome!

Which of course has no ad blocker! I use Firefox as default. However, I usually wait some time before upgrading to a major version because of extension compatibility (and other) problems. So still on FF 3.

Kevin

[John M Drescher]

Uwe Keim wrote:

Firefox 3.5 took 60 seconds to start, now Firefox 3.5.1 killed my Adblock Plus.

I had neither problem on the work XP64 machine. I ran 3.5 for a while and then upgraded last week with 3.5.1 and Adblock Plus worked with both versions.

John

[Mladen Jankovic]

Google Chrome has no support for plug-ins and it's spying on me... Hello Lynx :)

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[hairy_hats]

Adblock Plus 1.1 works fine on my FF 3.5.1. :)

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[Joe Woodbury]

I use Firefox daily. My wife and kids use IE8 and I use it occasionally. I've found that IE8 is more stable than Firefox. If they fixed a few UI quirks that drive me batty, I'd probably use IE full time.

[Baeltazor]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA YEAH I AGREE! :-D

[GDMFSOB]

Well I dont know, I have had it for about 8 weeks now and no problems at all?? i actaully installed it becuase ie 7 kept crashing

[DogGoneDog]

IF you dig you can find Adblocker for the new firefox. The old firefox had the maker and they have a website. I don't have it here a work but I will repost tonight. The only thing I can find or make work is my Norton Security tool bar. Anyone find that?

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[C Bates]

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[Kevin McFarlane]

WizardMaster wrote:

IF you dig you can find Adblocker for the new firefox.

I was referring to his comment about moving to Google Chrome, which has no ad blocker. It seemed odd to move from FF 3.5.1 because of broken ad blocker to a browser which has none at all! Anyway, it seems that it's only him who has this problem with FF 3.5.1 and Ad Blocker judging from other posters.

Kevin

[Doug Perreault]

I don't recall that I've had IE8 crash since I made two changes. First, I found my CPU was overheating so I cranked the fan up. Temps have gone down from 80C to 45C and things have gone a whole lot better since. Amazing how many crashes we blame on software that could be due to some pet hair in the fan. The other thing is, if you have the UAC turned off in Vista, you might want to check your permissions in your registry. Click the Start Button, type in Regedit and press Enter (once Regedit shows in the search results). In Regedit, right click on HKey_Classes_Root and click on Permissions. If you've not done this recently and you've been running with UAC off, I can almost bet you will find the message "No permissions have been assigned for this object." I have found this issue to be a cause of a huge number of problems. After fixing this (see http://www.brianpeek.com/blog/archive/2007/11/29/weird-vista-registry-issue.aspx[^]) I rarely have any crashes with Vista or IE8. Firefox doesn't crash either, but I prefer to use IE8 because I often need to use the Print Preview feature and some of the print options that IE8 just does better than any other browser out there. I usually open all the articles I find interesting in e-mail newsletters first, then close them as I read them. I can have multiple IE8 instances with dozens of tabs in each and I don't have a problem with crashes.