Posted on 12/20/2004 10:09:29 PM PST by Redcloak
2004 IE 6 IE 5 O 7 Moz NN 3 NN 4 NN 7 December 67.0% 4.7% 2.1% 21.2% 0.2% 0.2% 1.2% November 68.5% 5.0% 2.2% 19.3% 0.2% 0.2% 1.2% October 69.5% 5.7% 2.2% 17.5% 0.2% 0.2% 1.3% September 69.6% 6.2% 2.3% 16.9% 0.2% 0.2% 1.3% August 70.3% 7.0% 2.3% 15.5% 0.3% 0.3% 1.4% July 71.0% 7.7% 2.3% 13.8% 0.3% 0.3% 1.4% June 72.4% 8.3% 2.3% 11.8% 0.3% 0.3% 1.4% May 72.6% 9.2% 2.2% 11.0% 0.3% 0.3% 1.4% April 72.4% 10.1% 2.1% 10.3% 0.3% 0.3% 1.4% March 72.1% 10.7% 2.1% 9.6% 0.4% 0.4% 1.4% February 71.5% 11.5% 2.2% 9.0% 0.4% 0.4% 1.5% January 71.3% 12.8% 2.1% 8.2% 0.4% 0.5% 1.5%
I have found that Bargain Buddy requires the 1-2-3 punch of "Spybot Search and Destroy," "Ad-Aware" and "AVG Antivirus."
But it can be removed permanently.
The problem you're having is that Bargain Buddy hides a copy of itself in the "prefetch" directory and repropogates/reinstalls after removal.
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Opera's tabbed pages can also be dragged off the window onto the desktop, and the 'session' feature allows a preset collection of multi-tabbed, multiple windows to be started with one click.
If for instance you have a dozen web pages to browse for stock market data, another 8 for economic/business news and 10 more for forex and commodity data, they can all be started with one click grouped as three windows (for example) and will load pre-arranged on your screen(s) completed with forward and back button pre-loaded as however they were last used.
Very efficient memory and CPU use.
Combined with zonealarm's ad blocker, it's great.
I'd like to see Opera add a feature that enables java script or java by website, like it does now for cookies.
I'll give it some more time.
My ieSpell doesn't work though. :(
What makes it different from Weatherbug, which provides the same weather display feature in your system tray? http://www.weatherbug.com
We have DirectTV satellite for TV, but they want us to pay $600 for some sort of box to use them as an internet provider. Plus another $100/month to use their services.
AOL (I HATE AOL -juvenile IM and all the other Mickey Mouse crap and pop-ups) is the only ISP with a local access number.
Regardless, I can travel to any city in the USA or any country in Europe or South America and transact email business on a local dial-up connection from my hotel.
Any ideas?
Sorry, that won't happen until Longhorn ships. By then you'll be shelling out money for a new computer since Longhorn will probably be tied into Intel's new Palladium chip.
Download and install Javacool Software's Spywareblaster. That should keep em from coming back. And go to Eric L. Howes' website and download and lock down Internet Explorer with IE Spy-Ad. Both measures should keep your computer virtually 100% parasite-free. And they're both FREE.
IE can be removed from the desktop but not from Windows XP. Its integrated into the Operating System so if you did remove it, parts of Windows XP won't function. Its different from Windows 9X where you could delete the browser without missing anything. The reason Microsoft can't upgrade its browser is there's a lot of Windows OS code that has to be rewritten. You'd think Bill Gates would have kept the two separate. And now he's kicking himself for that mistake.
Is weatherbug powered by adware?
The free version does display an ad. It doesn't actually do anything malicious except display the local weather in the taskbar. If you don't want to live with a sponsored ad, by all means upgrade to the paid version.
I do not want to rouse any defensiveness. I just don't like ads. The firefox forecast extension has no ads.
Good point. I wouldn't consider it adware since it does provide a useful service I don't mind advertisers subsidizing. What I do consider adware are pure ads that are forcibly foisted upon me without my knowledge and my consent. As far as true adware is concerned, my attitude has always been that if advertisers want to turn my computer into a 24 hour bulletin board for crummy ads, they ought pay me to display them.
Absolutely. I feel the same way about those stickers car dealers put on cars, and I've told them so.
I can be pretty damned curmudgeonly/crotchety about these things, but it's the principle.
The only drawbacks I can see for the firefox weather extensions are (a) they might decide to go to an ad basis since Firefox has exploded in popularity and (b) the weather is not visible if the browser is not running.
As for those drawbacks, if ads appear I'll deal with it then, and since my browser is constantly active (with FR, of course), the weather forecast is also always there.
The only thing it doesn't do is improve the weather.
Thanks for the tip- I just installed it, and it is a cool little extention!
Everyone else? If you can't abide the idea of using Firefox- for whatever reason- get something else to use in lieu of Internet Explorer.
Even the old copies of Netscape you probably have on all those free discs you got in the mail are better than IE.
We started using FF on the home PC's after a nasty hijacker in June, and we only use IE on the few sites that will not accept alternatives.
I use FF from time to time but I agree completely that the $40 for Opera is well worth it for me, it's a well crafted product that has a lot of features built in vs. plug-ins that may, or may not, work. I would encourage browser shoppers to give the ad supported model a try.
Was struck by another comment a few messages back about IE being Soviet style. I felt the same thing when I went from NS to IE 3.0 at which point I honestly thought IE was the better product (I don't think there was much question in the market). Funny how lack of innovation can result in such a quick sea change in the market, but my memory is that Gates made that very statement in their battle with the Feds.
For one thing, you don't get the blizzard of spam you get with Weatherbug.
My Mom and my Father-in-law both have Earthlink accounts and their dial-up numbers are local calls. In fact, they each have a couple of local numbers to pick from on the list.
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