 A Better Browser For Vista ? |
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  May 30 2008, 07:03 PM
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Premium Member  Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 193 Joined: 24-April 08 Member No.: 61,260  |
Hi,
I've recently switched to Vista Ultimate, but I think I'll switch back if i don't find proper softwares for it  I was wondering if there is a better browser than IE in Vista ?? Coz its taking too much time to load websites. Atleast I feel so. And I've tried Opera also but it was not too much of an improvement .. Any suggestions to improve the speed ? P.S. To all those who think Vista sucks.. .. it does , But I can't find a better looking system |
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May 30 2008, 07:10 PM
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Newbie [Level 3] Group: Members Posts: 47 Joined: 28-May 08 Member No.: 62,777 |
im currently using firefox and opera. Hope tat helps.
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May 30 2008, 09:00 PM
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Super Member Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 416 Joined: 26-January 08 Member No.: 56,881 |
Heh... seems you haven't heard of Firefox.
(And no, IE8 is too much like IE7.) Try Firefox out. No one has given you a download link, but if you seriously don't want to go to Google and press "I'm Feeling Lucky", which should work, then here it is: [link] |
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May 30 2008, 11:01 PM
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Super Member Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 392 Joined: 8-January 08 From: UK - Kent Member No.: 55,950 |
It may be you simply don't have enough Ram to handle Vista, it is very ram hungry. But yeah firefox. Not I.E. any version! that or downgrade to xp it's better
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May 31 2008, 12:21 AM
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Ephesians 6:10-17  Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 1,917 Joined: 22-June 05 From: The World of Gentoo Member No.: 8,528 |
Firefox is slightly faster at rendering pages than Opera (not all that much faster, though), but if even Opera, one of the fastest browsers out there, is appearing slow to you, then even Firefox may not be something useful to you. Like Kobra500 said, it could be that you don't have a sufficient amount of RAM to run Vista smoothly.
QUOTE(bluedragon @ May 30 2008, 03:03 PM)  But I can't find a better looking system. You can make Windows XP look like Vista; though, you may not be able to get transparent panels and a transparent window manager. Or you can load up a popular Linux distro and run Compiz Fusion with Emerald, and you'll get more than what Vista can offer. |
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May 31 2008, 04:33 AM
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Privileged Member Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 519 Joined: 9-February 07 Member No.: 38,519 |
QUOTE(truefusion @ May 30 2008, 05:21 PM) Firefox is slightly faster at rendering pages than Opera (not all that much faster, though), but if even Opera, one of the fastest browsers out there, is appearing slow to you, then even Firefox may not be something useful to you. Like Kobra500 said, it could be that you don't have a sufficient amount of RAM to run Vista smoothly. You can make Windows XP look like Vista; though, you may not be able to get transparent panels and a transparent window manager. Or you can load up a popular Linux distro and run Compiz Fusion with Emerald, and you'll get more than what Vista can offer. Yea, definitely, if you want a great looking OS, try out ubuntu, ubuntu.com, if you don't like the default look you can completely change it to how you like, it offers a better look than any operating system I have ever seen (it uses compiz fusion). It also comes preinstalled with firefox; however, if you don't have fast internet you will want to look into increasing the bandwidth firefox can use. Anyways, hope this helps. |
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May 31 2008, 06:41 AM
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Premium Member Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 171 Joined: 29-May 08 From: Jakarta, Indonesia Member No.: 62,844 |
Firefox, Opera, or Safari. They're 3 great browsers I only trust.
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May 31 2008, 07:14 AM
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Super Member Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 319 Joined: 1-October 07 From: India Member No.: 50,968 |
I have been using Firefox in Vista for quite some time now... I know its not one of the best wortking softwares in Vista...
It used to crash every few hours and before crashing the performance would degrade a lot.... Then i would know its time to close the browser and open it. But i also see this... Its not the case only with Firefox, Its the same case with every other software in Vista... I have used quite a lot of softwares in Vista... And i have seen performance degradationa and freq2uent crashes... So i think there will be some time you have to wait for all the glitches to get resolved and all of it to work properly in Vista.. May be few service packs or so... I also see this.. 1. The booting and shut down process in vista is very very bugging.. It consumes so much time... 2. And i also noticed this... When the system resumes from a sleep, all softwares tend to behave so bad.. i mean very slow... I am not sure if this is a problem with my systems or some other stuff... |
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May 31 2008, 08:41 AM
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Member [Level 2] Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 87 Joined: 31-May 08 Member No.: 62,920 |
well first of all, Vista needs a lot of RAM to handle it so you might want to check for that first. Anything less than 1 gig of RAM is not really efficient for VISTA. Moreover, if your pages are loading slowly, it might be your internet connection, maybe it's not a fast one? like maybe you're on dial-up or something, in this case no browser can help and you'll have to switch to a faster internet connection. But assuming that those two previous things I talked about are okay, then I advise you to use the latest version of Mozilla Firefox, it looks good and works much faster than internet explorer. actually I've been using Mozilla Firefox for years now because Internet Explorer is just not good enough, it needs alot of work to be considered a "decent" browser. good luck
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