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evansorchid	Date: November 28, 2006 @ 8:28 PM ....Just a show of hands.
Distilled1	Date: November 28, 2006 @ 8:59 PM at work *raises hand carefully
ShadowMom	Date: November 28, 2006 @ 9:01 PM I have both 6 and 7... but I'm using firefox.
kingo	Date: November 28, 2006 @ 9:10 PM I use both IE and Firefox.
LiQuidMetamo...	Date: November 28, 2006 @ 9:20 PM nice show of hands, oh what dirty little secrets we keep !! p.s. - I have to use IE7 to do some of my work at home from work if that makes sense, got about 3 layers of active shield blocking, firewall on highest settings, privacy/cookie controls on highest settings, java script disabled, active x disabled and a few Hail Marys and maybe that'll keep me safe.
LiQuidMetamo...	Date: November 29, 2006 @ 12:52 AM Not exactly an overwhelming response as yet, evansorchid may as well have asked 'Hands up who voted for Bush at the last election' and watch a couple of half hearted hands go in the air and quickly down again when the glaring rolling eyes cut them down and the rest of the Bush voters just stare at the ground and pretend they didn't hear the question ... Someone...anyone...come on and be honest you don't get re-elected without the vote...no takers...oh well...exit stage left in slow depressed manner...
Opossum	Date: November 29, 2006 @ 12:58 AM I have lil' ol' crappy Enigma, which uses all the IE DLLs but seems slightly faster and is tabbed, but most of the time I find myself solely using Firefix. I mean fox. I haven't used IE itself at ALL in about a year.
GeneHilbert	Date: November 29, 2006 @ 1:43 AM IE6 - the reason I don't want to upgrade. Is all of the adware bullshit that comes with it..... I had IE5 forever - and reluctantly upgraded to 6 kicking and screaming.... (there's a picture). I just don't want to have all of this crap loaded into my computer. There is enough on it already without adding another browser. I voted for Bush... and I'd do it again.
LiQuidMetamo...	Date: November 29, 2006 @ 1:49 AM That's what I like about you Gene, you are true to yourself and your values and speak up for what you believe in - but still, the silent majority' hide it like it's shameful - both on Bush and using IE. And I'm a Brit-Canadian so I am not trashing Bush (2 of my cousins are in the army taking some hits on the Iraqi frontline), so what the hell do I know? Just making an observation and I could substitute Blair for Bush etc. and the observation still rings true. Respect the honesty
TonyV	Date: November 29, 2006 @ 9:05 AM I'm still floating along with IE6 as well. I tried Firefox but it really didn't do it for me. I never have been a GW Bush fan. I think brother Jeb is the better candidate for prez-o-dent.
GTOriginal	Date: November 29, 2006 @ 9:27 AM I have IE6. I like IE6. I have no intention of changing my browser because Microsoft says so. Far as BUSH goes, sadly very few of us actually did vote for him. Those three or four tentative hands you see going up (and Gene)? Yep thats about it. Heres MY vote.
zedsalt	Date: November 29, 2006 @ 11:22 AM Well, I was pretty sure we had IE7 before the music page muck up. I was under the impression that we were set up for automatic updates with IE and several of the various security packs we use, as well as being in the habit of upgrading at every legitimate opportunity. I went to the IE update menu, and it SAID we have the absolute latest of everything, with the exception of a couple things that are in beta testing. Still, the music pages here display/function properly for me...what? one if forty times? one in sixty? The first computer we used for the internet came with Netscape. Two or three computers later, my little brother downloaded Firefox. I'm pretty sure both are somewhere in storage next door. Figuring out which is which and updating those browsers would probably be quicker for me than downloading the entire new browser. As I've said before, I used Netscape first and for quite a while, then Firefox briefly, then IE. It wasn't just the more intuitive interface that attracted me to IE, it was the fact that so many sites I wanted to visit simply didn't function properly, if at all, when I used the other two browsers.
ChillinBuzz	Date: November 29, 2006 @ 11:46 AM I wouldn't say Firefox was any harder to use than IE, or looks worse, or harder to use (heck, FF has been customisable a lot longer than I can remember now) and, if like me you can't be bothered with Microsoft's propaganda updates, sorry, software patches that dial home, sorry again, critical updates (of which in 4 years i have used ONE - the WMF image exploit patch) then IE7 is not for you... it only works on Service Pack 2 (unless some smart h4xx0r has made it work with SP1) but quite honestly, never had a security issue with Firefox at all and a few websites not working properly with it are a tiny loss compared to my CC details a few years ago. IE is about as attractive as a 100 year old hooker. I think people tend to judge Firefox on the sometimes confusing range of options and settings when in fact it just takes time to adjust (a bit like this place, hint hint ^^) As for Bush and his family... "Anyone who harbors a terrorist, is a terrorist." - and you know the rest of what GW says about terrorists... so read this clip from a Wikipedia (and other sources) about their "friend", Orlando Bosch. Arrest and Pardon In 1968 Bosch was arrested in Florida for an attack on a Polish freighter with a 57 mm recoilless rifle and was as a result sent to prison for a ten year term. In 1987, almost a decade after the Flight 455 atrocity, Bosch was freed from Venezuelan charges and went to the United States, assisted by US Ambassador to Venezuela Otto Reich; there, he was ultimately arrested for a parole violation. Bosch was pardoned of all American charges by President George H.W. Bush on July 18, 1990 at the request of his son Jeb Bush, who later became Governor of Florida; this pardon was despite objections by the then President's own defense department, that Bosch was one of the most deadly terrorists working 'within the hemisphere'. 'Although many countries seek Bosch's extradition he remains free, protected by the same government that warns other countries that they are either for or against terrorism'. The political pressure to grant Bosch a pardon was begun during the congressional campaign run by Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, herself a Cuban American, and overseen by her campaign manager Jeb Bush. The resultant pardon reputedly saw huge celebrations in Miami, in what was then called 'Free Orlando Day'. So.....Let me get this right: Bosch was implicated in the bombing of a Cuban aircraft in which 73 people were killed, including many young members of a Cuban fencing team. He will never face charges because the Bush family let him get away with it... Why is that? nuff said.
GTOriginal	Date: November 29, 2006 @ 4:58 PM I have no choice but to plug this track and let the man answer in his own words http://gtoriginal.dmusic.com/music/comments/340899
cantstoprunning	Date: March 10, 2008 @ 6:07 PM i avoid it. firefox is much better.
Cryxan	Date: March 10, 2008 @ 9:28 PM I haven't used IE in at least 6 years. I used Opera for a long time, nowadays I use mainly Firefox and Epiphany if I need a second browser running. I also voted for Bush.
zedsalt	Date: March 11, 2008 @ 3:55 AM Since my last post in this forum, a guy broke into the storage area I mentioned and cut the power cables off of every piece of equipment in the house. We caught him loading them...and every other bit of metal he could sell at a scrapyard...and hemmed him in while we called 911. He rammed my mother's car in making his escape, but the police caught him later that night. Less than three weeks later, we followed another vehicle leaving that farm until the cops got them. It didn't turn into a high-speed chase or anything, which is good, because one of the two men robbing the place had decided it would be a good idea to bring his 9 yr. old daughter along. Since then, someone has risked his/her life to rip out a copper cable attached to the main junction box that powers the house and workshop. This kind of economy is one of the reasons I didn't vote for Reagan or either Bush. When W won the Republican nomination, I told everyone, "Well, we'd better not put George H. W. Bush's son in the oval office, or they're bound to drive another truck into the World Trade Center!" Lord, I hate it when I'm wrong.
miraclemaker	Date: March 13, 2008 @ 11:12 PM I have both opera and IE7 However, IE7 nor 6 works here to upload or something, atlesst that is for me
ChillinBuzz	Date: March 14, 2008 @ 12:23 AM I'll be giving IE8 a test drive sometime, seeing as Microsoft are finally going to make it web compliant... otherwise I'm sticking to Firefox and if I hit a site that doesn't want to open because of it, then it's a site that loses my business.
AdNauseam	Date: March 18, 2008 @ 1:45 PM http://adnauseam.dmusic.net/journal
NickSawyer	Date: March 19, 2008 @ 1:29 PM I haven't used IE for a year but I used to like it more because for Firefox one has to download the plugins.
miraclemaker	Date: March 21, 2008 @ 12:26 AM I have just uploaded a track with IE7, and thats wild
Opossum	Date: March 21, 2008 @ 12:33 AM On 29th Nov 2012, Opossum said: I have lil' ol' crappy Enigma, which uses all the IE DLLs but seems slightly faster and is tabbed, but most of the time I find myself solely using Firefix. I mean fox. I haven't used IE itself at ALL in about a year. Update: Haven't used Enigma or anything else IE DLL-based in a long time now. The only thing that really annoys me about Firefox is the back button, which only works in about 10% of the cases. (It usually "jams" on the same page and doesn't do anything.)
LiQuidMetamo...	Date: March 21, 2008 @ 5:29 AM really ? never had this problem personally ...
Opossum	Date: March 21, 2008 @ 5:37 AM I'm not 100% sure, but it may just be a difference in the personal "feel" of the two browsers and how I react. But it happens a lot. IE always immediately jumps back no matter what, Firefox just freezes on a lot of loading pages. Could be in the design, could be my impatience.

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