Posted on 09/30/2012 7:46:35 AM PDT by Former Fetus
Make sure that you are not in compatibility mode for all web sites. Go to the Tools menu and look at Compatibility Settings. There is a check box to view all sites in compatibility mode, which is essentially like using IE6. That could be the problem.
Stop using IE.
It took me a little while to find out how to check it.
I am running Windows 7 Professional, 64 bit. My PC came with Firefox on it but, being from the generation that came out of Noah's ark (at least that's what my children seem to think) I continued using IE because, well, because I was used to it. I tried Firefox and, voila!, I can read all the comments!
Thank you to all Freepers, you are the best.
Everything in my list was in coded form. What troubles me is that all the autocomplete data is stored externally.
I use both IE and Firefox. Perhaps I am just not as sensitive to certain things when I browse. To me a browser is a browser. But I am curious. What improvements do you notice with Firefox?
Probably compatibility mode, it’s either on and shouldn’t be or off and shouldn’t be. 90% of the time IE is irritating me switch that is the fix:
http://windows.microsoft.com/is-IS/windows7/How-to-use-Compatibility-View-in-Internet-Explorer-9
Not necessarily. Anybody getting access to my PC already has figured out an easier way to rip me off than pulling my passwords off the PC. They’ve gotten access to the entire home, where the checkbooks and credit cards and all kinds of other stuff are.
It may just be familiarity at this point. Firefox offered tabs early on and I got very used to that. I see that IE now has tabs, but I don't like the way that they work as well. Firefox is easy to customize with add-ons. I started on firefox maybe seven years ago and have not spent nearly as much time trying to get along with IE. There have been certain sites that won't run with firefox, so that's when i return to IE for compatibility. But that is getting to be pretty unusual these days.
Bingo! I can’t believe how many things I’m learning today!
One firewall and one AV is all it takes to stop hackers. Really you don’t even need them if you don’t hang out in the dark parts of the internet. So since they can’t find my passwords nothing to worry about. Really paranoia is always more effort than it’s worth.
I have used Firefox for years and for years set it as my default browser - pretty much ignoring it’s installed existence on my machine.
It it totally stable, a smaller footprint on my machine and in memory and interfaces as well as any with Norton antivirus apps, Adobe Reader and Adobe flash and any other apps I need “plug ins” to my browser for.
It is free, mainatined all the time, updated often and you can control when and how updates are applied - letting Firefox run the whole thing, or storing an update-install on your machine, running it at a time of your chosing, and uninstalling it and re-installing an earlier version if any problems are encountered - which has only been a couple times in all the years of my experience.
It is produced by the global open source outfit - Mozilla foundation.
In addition they produce an Email software application called Thunderbird, which you can use to get your Email from/off your Email/Internet service provider and deal with all your Email on your PC - just like the Microsift Outlook application - only like Firefox, Thunderbird is free.
If I were you, I’d try Firefox.
After the initial adjustment of getting used to how Firefox locates its functions. compared to where/how the same functions are located in IE, I think you won’t be disappointed.
Oh, almost forgot - I too am currently using Win7.
You can download Firefox for free from the Internet.
Haven’t had a problem yet. And really in the current world so many of the malwares capture the keyboard output making yourself remember and type your passwords isn’t anymore secure than storing them. If the hackers get stuff on your system then you’re hosed no matter what, take the path of convenience, it’s no less secure.
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