Internet Explorer 7

[nChrist]

Hello Jesse,

I never tried Opera. If my memory serves me correctly, one either has to buy Opera or put up with advertising. I didn't have any money to spend and didn't want to put up with advertising, so I used the Internet Explorer variants that were free before the free Firefox days. The two IE variants I used the most were Avant and Slim Browser. Both were better than IE in my opinion, but they used IE as a base program.

Maybe Firefox came out before I found out about it, but I've been using it for a long time. Firefox now has well over 2,000 free add-ons that can be used, and I really think that Firefox offers more speed and user choices than anything else right now. It's rated number one from many well-known reviewers, and they are continually improving it, so I think it has a very bright future.

[john909]

I use Opera as well. It's almost the perfect piece of software. I started using Opera in 2000 and have loved it every since. There are still some sites that Opera falls aprt with, but it's the site's coding, not Opera, since Opera is the only browser out there that conforms specifically to the W3C standards for WWW and TCP/IP protocols.

I also used Firefox since it was Phoenix, but this year quit using it since it's become fairly bloated and flaky.

Others seem to be having problems with IE7, but. praise God, I have been error free with it using XP Home, XP Firewall, Live Care, and a Linksys Router. I really like it --  alot. I'm using Opera now, but for banking, etc, most sites will still reject Opera.

Opera is now free and still has that beautifully small footprint at under 6 MB installed. There honestly isn't a better browser out there.

[Joey]

Bro Tom. I have IE7 installed but you know me. I'm still a firefox freak 

IE7 is a big improvement on IE6 as far as security is concerned, but its the same old story. If you do not have it figured correctly, you may well find the same problems of browser hijacking, spyware etc etc.

Opera is also a good browser and i think the days of having to pay for the browser or having the free version but having ads at the top of the browser, are over. My Opera browser certainly doesn't have the ads anymore and i haven't paid a penny for it.

I did notice someone mentioned the Maxathon browser. If you use that, please be careful. I think i'm right in saying that its a shell of IE and comes with the same vulnerabilities.

[Pizza_Mahal]

I use Opera. I don't know what IE is.

LOL!!!! That is good one. Wait...is that true?

[Rhys]

I have IE 7, Firefox 2.0.0.2, and Opera on my computer and all run well. I usually use Firefox.

[nChrist]

I am trying Opera to see what it's like. I must say that I've used Firefox for a long time without any problems at all, and I really like many of the small and free extras that can be added to it. I'm using Firefox right now, and most of it appears to be working again. I might even have a working spell checker now. Everything was wrong because Firefox couldn't find the dictionary it uses. It's just one small problem like this after another.

I did say one small problem after another, but I've had days of one crash after another and times that the computer wouldn't even boot. I'm certainly not any computer genius, but I am fairly computer literate. I've had really ENOUGH of all this fun with computer problems. There are alternatives to Windows, and I will try one if the computer problems keep going.