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Essential Computer Programs (pg. 3)
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| Jeremy H |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zewad
what does firefox do that IE doesnt do?
ive never understood everybodys hard on for it... |
Often the plugin-options. And also speed. It's more flexible in general.
I prefer Opera though :) |
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| verndogs |
firefox
notepad
ms office
acrobat reader
irfanview
avg
sopcast |
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| Fibonacci |
Firefox tends to have ALOT less vulnerable holes than does IE. Opera is pretty good too. Only complaint I have with FF lately is that it tends to be a memory hog, but FF 3.0 is rumored to address this. In the meantime, haven't used IE in years, and I don't miss it because it does nothing other than crash and suck (and not necessarily in that order).
I use:
Firefox
Opera
Pidgin
uTorrent
iTunes (sigh)
Starcraft |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by Project-K
It just so happends I keep a backup disc with all the proper install programs in case I need to reformat. It has:
Drivers (obviousely)
Winzip
Winrar
MagicISO
CDburnerXP pro
DivX
Adobe
Photoshop
Opera
Quicktime
Realplayer
Spybod S&D
Adaware |
what's adobe? I've yet to hear of this software.
edit//why would you have winrar and winzip installed?
| quote: | Originally posted by Fibonacci
Firefox tends to have ALOT less vulnerable holes than does IE. Opera is pretty good too. Only complaint I have with FF lately is that it tends to be a memory hog, but FF 3.0 is rumored to address this. In the meantime, haven't used IE in years, and I don't miss it because it does nothing other than crash and suck (and not necessarily in that order).
I use:
Firefox
Opera
Pidgin
uTorrent
iTunes (sigh) |
so if you say IE crashes a lot you must not use ff 2.0...cause that crashes a ton. ff3.0 crashes less than 2! I use 3 as my primary browser (at least when im not on the net via my phone like I am now anyways) and it is slightly less of a resource hog but not by a ton.
oh and for those that use pidgin (formerly gaim)...it really does suck. at least for msn it does. you can't even message people while in invisible mode! |
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| LeopoldStotch |
*firefox
*winamp
*iTunes(yes i have this, because we have a music network share with iTunes)
*Security Task Manager
*pidgin / trillian (either/or. i am impressed with the way pidgin has grown out of it's gaim days)
*yahoo! widget
*cygwin
*Console
*DesktopLoader
*Winrar
*Apache products(Ant/Maven; Log4j; Tomcat; Axis2; Commons; JMeter; Xerces, ....)
*latest jdk
*latest gcc
*Eclipse
*Notepad++
*VMPlayer / VMWare |
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| LeopoldStotch |
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
oh and for those that use pidgin (formerly gaim)...it really does suck. at least for msn it does. you can't even message people while in invisible mode! |
i am usually in "Away" mode anyways, rather than "Invisible". never really tried to message people in "Invisible" mode. hah. people here who know me i am on constant 24/7 Away mode anyways, because i am usually logged in 24/7 and in and out. |
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| BTG |
| still nobody's said windows. didn't know you were all dos heads. |
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| LeopoldStotch |
| ok. i admit it. i am using Windows 3.0. There i said it. :( |
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| Fibonacci |
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
so if you say IE crashes a lot you must not use ff 2.0...cause that crashes a ton. ff3.0 crashes less than 2! I use 3 as my primary browser (at least when im not on the net via my phone like I am now anyways) and it is slightly less of a resource hog but not by a ton.
oh and for those that use pidgin (formerly gaim)...it really does suck. at least for msn it does. you can't even message people while in invisible mode! |
FF3 is still beta. pidgin i think is still the best alternative to AIM... thanks for the spyware aol! NOT |
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| Arbiter |
WinRAR
Winamp
Internet Explorer 6
The Proxomitron
Excel, Word, and Access 2002
Microsoft Virtual PC
Foxit Reader
VLC
Audacity |
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| verndogs |
| I used to use pidgin, but I prefer meebo nowadays since I can keep all the IM windows all in one tab |
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| AnomalyConcept |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zewad
what does firefox do that IE doesnt do?
ive never understood everybodys hard on for it... |
Render stuff properly.
Not technically a program, but many programs depend on the network connection.
Also, the 'run' command dialog. This is the one thing I look for in a desktop environment, and don't really use any other program menus all that much. |
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