Re: [Finale] TAN: Internet Explorer

2005-02-20 Thread Phil Daley
At 06:26 PM 2/19/2005, Darcy James Argue wrote: Don't forget to run Microsoft Anti-Spyware to clear out all the crap IE allowed on her system in the first place. I installed it and ran it yesterday. No problems. I guess I run a clean W2K IE6 system . . . Phil Daley AutoDesk

Re: [Finale] TAN: Internet Explorer

2005-02-20 Thread Christopher Smith
On the recommendation of various listers, I got Firefox (Mac OSX) and installed it (if you can call that an installation, as I just dragged the app over from the disk image). It seems to work surprisingly similarly to Safari, except it doesn't choke on certain web pages. It is quite zippy, and

Re: [Finale] TAN: Internet Explorer

2005-02-20 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 09:35:09 -0500, Christopher Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the recommendation of various listers, I got Firefox (Mac OSX) and installed it (if you can call that an installation, as I just dragged the app over from the disk image). It seems to work surprisingly similarly

Re: [Finale] TAN: Internet Explorer

2005-02-20 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Bruce K H Kau wrote: Others have recommended Firefox, which would add my voice to. However, I wouldn't count Mozilla out, as it is a more mature program and has some things that Firefox does not yet have, such as the ability to bookmark a set of tabs. OK. I've been using Mozilla for a couple of

Re: [Finale] TAN: Internet Explorer

2005-02-20 Thread Owain Sutton
Noel Stoutenburg wrote: Bruce K H Kau wrote: Others have recommended Firefox, which would add my voice to. However, I wouldn't count Mozilla out, as it is a more mature program and has some things that Firefox does not yet have, such as the ability to bookmark a set of tabs. OK. I've been using

[Finale] TAN: Internet Explorer

2005-02-19 Thread Mark D Lew
My girlfriend has a WindowsXP system with Internet Explorer, which has been terribly buggy for about a month now. The whole time I've been telling her -- with playful exaggeration -- that Microsoft is evil and IE is garbage and if she had any sense she'd throw the whole thing out and get a

Re: [Finale] TAN: Internet Explorer

2005-02-19 Thread Jari Williamsson
Mark D Lew wrote: What browser do you recommend instead, and where does she go to download and install it? Firefox. http://www.mozilla.org/ And it's available for OSX too... Best regards, Jari Williamsson ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] TAN: Internet Explorer

2005-02-19 Thread Darcy James Argue
Mark, In addition to using Firefox instead of IE, she should also download and install Microsoft Anti-Spyware. Now, it may sound odd to be recommending a second Microsoft product to solve the problems caused by the first (IE), and the irony isn't lost on anyone -- but MS Anti-Spyware was

Re: [Finale] TAN: Internet Explorer

2005-02-19 Thread dhbailey
Mark D Lew wrote: My girlfriend has a WindowsXP system with Internet Explorer, which has been terribly buggy for about a month now. The whole time I've been telling her -- with playful exaggeration -- that Microsoft is evil and IE is garbage and if she had any sense she'd throw the whole thing

Re: [Finale] TAN: Internet Explorer

2005-02-19 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 01:31 AM 2/19/05 -0800, Mark D Lew wrote: Can someone perhaps tell me what I should suggest to my girlfriend? What browser do you recommend instead, and where does she go to download and install it? Jari recommended Firefox (http://www.mozilla.org/). So do I -- even though I was an Opera

Re: [Finale] TAN: Internet Explorer

2005-02-19 Thread Bruce K H Kau
Others have recommended Firefox, which would add my voice to. However, I wouldn't count Mozilla out, as it is a more mature program and has some things that Firefox does not yet have, such as the ability to bookmark a set of tabs. (Maybe Firefox has it, but I didn't find it. I'll probably be

Re: [Finale] TAN: Internet Explorer

2005-02-19 Thread David W. Fenton
On 19 Feb 2005 at 7:02, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: At 01:31 AM 2/19/05 -0800, Mark D Lew wrote: Can someone perhaps tell me what I should suggest to my girlfriend? What browser do you recommend instead, and where does she go to download and install it? Jari recommended Firefox

Re: [Finale] TAN: Internet Explorer

2005-02-19 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Mark, I don't know if your girlfriend has broadband or not, but one thing to keep in mind is that if she's using WiFi (wireless internet), she's probably going through a NAT router already. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 19 Feb 2005, at 5:30 PM, Mark D Lew wrote: On Feb 19,

Re: [Finale] TAN: Internet Explorer

2005-02-19 Thread Mark D Lew
On Feb 19, 2005, at 2:37 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: I don't know if your girlfriend has broadband or not, but one thing to keep in mind is that if she's using WiFi (wireless internet), she's probably going through a NAT router already. Nope, no WiFi there. That would be handy for when I bring

Re: [Finale] TAN: Internet Explorer

2005-02-19 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Mark, Don't forget to run Microsoft Anti-Spyware to clear out all the crap IE allowed on her system in the first place. http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx I have personally seen the enormous difference this makes on my Dad's P4. He had a NAT router,