Re: I switched to Firefox because--Solved
From: Vanguard (use_ReplyTo_at_domain.invalid)
Date: 02/06/05
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Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 11:47:29 -0600
"Philippe L. Balmanno" <plb2862@cox.net> wrote in message
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> Mark wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2/6/2005 9:34 AM, Frank Saunders, MS-MVP:
>>
>>> "Mark" <mark@anywhere.org> wrote in message
>>> news:eUcyUOFDFHA.3540@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl
>>>
>>>> On 2/6/2005 8:52 AM, Frank Saunders, MS-MVP:
>>>>
>>>>> "map444" <map444@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>>>> news:1813EC26-81FC-4221-AEC6-6F4E1898B490@microsoft.com
>>>>>
>>>>>> I found that using IE6 I could not access Microsoft Newsgroups.
>>>>>> I
>>>>>> switched to Firefox and it worked temporarily. I found that the
>>>>>> problem was improper use of the .net passport sign in. I got
>>>>>> into
>>>>>> my .net passport profile, signed out and clicked not to be
>>>>>> remembered. I had to do this for both Firefox and IE6. I can now
>>>>>> access the newsgoups on both browsers. I believe I had the
>>>>>> problem
>>>>>> because I had not been signing out.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> For a faster interface to the newsgroups,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ... and faster virus/trojans/spyware infections ...
>>>>
>>>>> in Outlook Express go to Tools
>>>>>
>>>>>> Accounts | Add (or New) | News.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Set up an account for this news server:
>>>>>
>>>>> msnews.microsoft.com
>>>>>
>>>>> The server is free and does not require you to logon. This news
>>>>> server carries over 2200 newsgroups related to Microsoft products
>>>>> and keeps messages at least 30 days.
>>>>>
>>>>> For more detail see
>>>>> http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Use: http://www.mozilla.org/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> You are ignorant, aren't you? I have been using OE for at least
>>> seven years and have never gotten a virus/trojan/spyware infection.
>>> Never got a notification that my anti-virus or anything else has
>>> stopped one either.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Sorry, I am not ignorant. I and others just want security rather
>> than insecurity.
> I agree it isn't ignorance if you are lucky. I changed because I
> wanted speed and no more hang ups/stalls when marking news groups as
> read. For example when I subscribe to a new news group OE downloads
> headers and after reviewing the headers I usually mark the news group
> as read.
Sounds like you need to compact your .dbx files. Also, the more records
you keep then the slower OE will be in enumerating new records,
accessing them, and changing their status. Thunderbird may indeed be
quicker in its database mechanism but basically it sounds like you've
become a pig and let your .dbx files for Outlook Express get excessively
huge. It is doubtful that you need any records over a month old and
probably not even over 2 weeks old. You can Google Groups for old
articles. Define a rule to delete messages that are over N days old.
It won't apply when you download new messages but occasionally you
should run it manually to mark old items with a status of deleted. Then
run a compact to purge the delete-marked items from the database files.
When OE gets slow, it is because it has to do a lot of reindexing.
> IE requires too many additional add-ins for pop-up blockers and too
> many people have created these self installing search toolbars and not
> one of these have attached themselves to Firefox.
Yet the 3rd party add-ins to IE for popup blocking surpass what Firefox
can manage to avoid. Take a look at PopUpCop which provides much more
than just popup blocking. "Too many additional add-ins for pop-up
blockers"? You make it sound like you need a plural of popup blockers.
Just one suffices and obviously you don't want same-function utilities
interferring with each other. "Self-installing search toolbars"? Well,
if you are stupid enough to go opening any attachment you get in an
e-mail, downloading just any freebie utility you happen to find without
researching it, not configuring IE to prompt you for ActiveX downloads,
and not saving a disk image to provide for recovery before installing
software from an unknown and untrusted source then that was your choice
to engage in unsafe hex. No browser can overcome the stupidity of its
user.
Yeah, Firefox doesn't support ActiveX. And, of course, no one could
ever manage to go into IE's advanced options and disable ActiveX
downloads and execution, either, or just configure IE to prompt when an
AX download is requested. Yeah, right. I'm not saying Firefox isn't a
good browser (except that users often complain about difficulties after
trying to uninstall it, so it ranks with the old versions of Netscape
when they were in a browser war with Microsoft about a decade ago), but
many of the arguments are pretty stupid or misleading. Most Firefox
users don't even realize all the bugs being reported and worked on for
that product ()(http://snipurl.com/firefox_bugs_all), and that list is
from a much smaller community of users and enthusiasts along with being
a much less targeted browser by hackers.
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