Firefox

[Arab Nights (imported)]

Just for giggles I installed Firefox on my old computer with Windows 7. Before I could either Explorer or Google as browser. Explorer just seemed to have continual hickups with shlowness, freezing because of long running scripts, etc. I also use Yahoo for the email and it had lesser issues but still there. I found that by going thru Firefox to get to IE or Yahoo made everything faster. Sometimes I will do a little solitaire just to occupy my mind for a bit and that is quicker with Firefox.

[Paolo]

Try Opera. I find that Firefox in its newer versions is too much of a resource hog.

[fhunter]

Try Opera. I find that Firefox in its newer versions is too much of a resource hog.

Do you trust Chinese software?

[Paolo]

I don't trust any of them, but oh well.

[Arab Nights (imported)]

So I now have Firefox and Opera and have deleted Explorer and Google. So far everything works fine. I get a lot of news from internet and I go to msn and yahoo to check stories using the url bar. Once on Firefox, I can go to msn and shift+ctrl+p and get the privacy feature so EA does not show on history. Opera does not seem to have that. Also, Firefox has articles which are longer, can be interesting and not have the 'begin slideshow' bullshit where you go thru a story one three sentence slide at a time, have to wait for all the ads to load, etc. Again, both msn and yahoo seem to work better go thru Firefox or Opera.

[ambiguous (imported)]

I think whatever browser you use they tend to slow up as the Cache builds up with gigabytes of crap.

In Some browsers you can set an auto clear function every time you close the app..

Sadly so many sites don't seem to work if you put a cookie block on them.

[fhunter]

For Firefox - there is uBlock Origin, that blocks advertisements and that, surprisingly can speed up the browser quite a bit

[Paolo]

Both Firefox and Opera have great ad blockers available, and Firefox has NoScript, which will block all Java and Flash, etc., and ask to run it.

Some years ago, NoScript caught a hack here at EA, when a box popped up asking to allow a script to run. Turned out, we'd been infected with a 'drive-by' which was soon killed.

[bella (imported)]

Try Dissenter (dissenter.com) - has ad blockers and privacy as well

It is what I use