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JamesM
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I don't want to start a flame war here, but I have always used internet explorer (apart from Netscape many moons ago). The problem I am having is I have just gone to Win 8.1 and for some reason Battlelog (for BF4) needs a plug in, but the plug in will not work with IE 11 (security reasons). So I am thinking about another browser. Are there any pros and cons for say Chrome, FF or any other recommendations.
Thanks for reading.
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rongtw
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Re: web browser

James, i have always Used Firefox  Cool and never have problems with anything  Cool
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Re: web browser

I switched to Chrome for a variety of reasons, but one being the bloat of firefox.
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Chrome will feed you adverts based on your past history of sites visited.  If you don't mind that or you install the Adblock extension then it's fine.
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Yup, use adblock and and ghostery...
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JamesM
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Re: web browser

I did a bit of reading, and read FF is the reincarnation of Netscape, so I gave it a try and BF4 is now working again.
Thanks for all your advice.
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must admit i wasnt impressed when i tried Chrome Sad
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Re: web browser

Quote from: dvorak
I switched to Chrome for a variety of reasons, but one being the bloat of firefox.


On Windows, Pale Moon is an FF alternative, built from the same source code, which can help with that...
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Switched from FF to Chrome a while back, no adverts with AaBlock installed, also remove all the flash from my PC`s as its aready in Chrome.
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The major problem with Firefox - at least the way it's set up on my XP machine with the extensions I want - is it's a real memory hog! Starts at around 250K but left open will rise to over 1GB. On a machine with 2GB of RAM (expanded from the original 256K) that's an unacceptable amount of space being used up.
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On my 16GB RAM PC (Windows 7 Pro 64bit) it usually starts very low then gradually creeps up to a little over 2GB. I notice that web browsing starts to become sluggish at around around 1.5GB as well as Explorer also seems to be affected.
Quitting FF solves the issue till the next time Sad

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