Dump Windows and run Linux.
Ubuntu runs great and makes an old machine like new again.
lol
Safari for windows sucks. So slow…
Yep, that is actually my first computer from 1981. I kept it this long because my Dad paid something like $1400 for the entire setup (about $3500 adjusted for inflation) and I couldn’t bring myself to get rid of it even though I managed to use it up until about 1994 when I got my first PC.
The ironic thing is I’ve had several PCs go tits up on me since then and that damn Apple II+ will still boot and run.
And yeah I remember buying computer magazines and typing in 400+ line programs letter for letter.
Not that easy to dump IE and not have any issues. While I agree IE is not the best or most secure choice, the alternatives do not always display content correctly–and that includes Firefox 17 as well as Safari.
Microsoft has become much more attuned to releasing patches for vulnerabilities; at this point IE is not the sinking battleship it once was.
Check your add-ons and be sure you are actually using what it lists there. Anything you are not using–delete. (Tools, Manage add-ons)
Also, check under your advanced settings (Tools, Internet Options, Advanced) --Automatically Recover from page layout layers using compatibility view. This setting can either be helpful or harmful. If you are having trouble; toggle it and see if that helps. There are too many different explanations to list here for why you would or would not use this setting–it is a quick COA to try.
Truthfully, for the longest time it was IE that did not display webpages correctly and required special exceptions and workarounds in website code to get it to display pages according to the established W3 standards. And most web developers built for the standards and only grudgingly had to create the workarounds for IE to display the pages properly because so many people didn’t know enough to get a better browser. The latest IE (10 or whatever), actually does a decent job. But it sure took them long enough.
At any point in the past decade of using Firefox and its predecessors, it has been extremely rare to have to fire up IE in order to use a site. And that is actually a sign of a site that isn’t built to the established standard but instead uses IE as a “standard” which is silly.
To put it in AR quality terms, sites that are milspec or better, render properly in FireFox and other standards-compliant browsers. Sites that required IE in order to function are your sub-par makes.
Works.
–jay35
If you are using/supporting SharePoint, FireFox and Safari become a serious issue for interoperability. Also, many enterprise monitoring apps do not render the maps properly in other than IE browsers. (solarwinds is a recent exception). I have not tested HPOV with Firefox recently but I gave up solving the problems the last time I messed with this combination (java issues).
Chase.com was another example that did not display properly unless you were using IE up until last year.
The issue here is supportability at the Enterprise level–who do you call for help from FireFox if your having problems specific to their browser? The answer is essentially crowd sourcing and forums (get community support), but that doesn’t help when your dealing with management/leadership and you say “I posted a thread with this question”.