Activity for June 27

Review - Opera for Windows
10.0 Build 1139 Alpha 1 (Dec 5, 2008)

I noticed that Opera still have their stupid way of dealing with cookies, I could never get on with it, so that puts me off to start with.

Speed wise is not that much faster than Firefox, certainly not enough to turn me from firefox, the scroll pad on my Acer laptop did not work Opera either, and yet it works in every other browser.

Opera is not a bd browser, but it offers nothing that other browsers don't and with Firefox I can still use my extensions and add ons.

BTY, I still use Firefox 2 as I think it is a better browser than FF3.
Review - Opera for Windows
9.20 Build 8746 Beta (Mar 16, 2007)

I do like Opera, but I hate it's cookie system, Firefox is much better at asking if I want to accept the cookie. It gives me three options, allow, deny or session and on each of them, I can tick if I want it permant. Opera is much more complex than it need to be, which is a shame, because I am sure I would use Opera all the time. At the moment I have not reinstalled Opera on my computer.
Review - Winamp 5 Lite
5.34 Build 1178 Beta (Mar 16, 2007)

Nullsoft lost the plot about the time AOl took over, I liked Winamp in the 2.0 days, then when they took it up to version 3, they concentrated more on how it looks, not how it works, to be honest noting have changed, the last version of Winamp I tried just kept crashing.

This version is better, but it is still bloated and to be honest does nthing different than what Windows media player does.

I did like QCD as weel, but that seems to be bloated now.
why is it that no one can just may a plain old MP3 player without all the rubbish?
Review - Winamp 5 Full
5.33 Build 1079 (Feb 6, 2007)

Winamp went to pot at Version 3 and above and become bloated and unreliable. I went to Qcd and never looked back. A much better meadia player, but tsyaing that, QCD is starting to get too big.

winamp was a great player in it 2.0 days, but not now.
Comment - Pale Moon 5 outshines sibling Firefox 5
5.33 Build 1079 (Jun 27, 2011 - 4:01 AM)

Been using the 64 bit version of pale moon for a couple of days, need to get beta version of flash from Adobe. it is called square
http://labs.adobe.com/do...ashplayer10_square.html

Pale moon is not bad at all, certainly a bit faster than Firefox 5, not that it is difficult because I think firefox have gone slower since version3.5.

I will no doubt go back to Iron, which is a chrome clone
Comment - Don't wait, download Firefox 5 beta right now
5.33 Build 1079 (May 22, 2011 - 3:08 PM)

Gave up using Firefox, it was getting slow on version 3.5. Version 3.6 was worse and version 4 is not that great. Sad really since I been using Firefox since it was first launched.

the one big problem with Firefox is that with almost every new version there are problems with extension, at least with Chrome or Iron as I when ever i update the browser all my extensions still work.

sorry Mozilla, but you lost the plot.
Comment - Now you can send the Office ribbon to join Clippy
5.33 Build 1079 (May 22, 2011 - 3:05 PM)

Used a trial version of Office 2010, hated the ribbon, so glad I still got the older version of Office, mind you I am using Libre office more these days. Sure MS may put the ribbon in the new version of windows, but if they don't make it that it can be changed to menus, then I know a few people who will stick with what they got. i am staying with Windows 7 anyway, no need to move.
Comment - Which web browser do you use?
5.33 Build 1079 (Mar 10, 2011 - 6:30 AM)

SRWare Iron version 10.something or other., It is a chrome clone but without the Google rubbish. It is fast and reliable. I used Firefox for years, but they have lost the plot now, started to after version 3.5 to be honest
Comment - Intel seeks to change cybersecurity with $7.6B McAfee acquisition
5.33 Build 1079 (Aug 20, 2010 - 5:12 AM)

Never knew that, not that I use AVG, I have not used it for years, knowing that Intel got it's feet in there, makes me want to stay clear of it .