Yeah, but those can be faked.
No. Windows 9x and the whole 2000 family including XP.
Thankfully, Microsoft will be adding a “Never Trust” feature in Service Pack2 for WindowsXP.
Hell, I’ve already made up my mind that I NEVER want anything from Gator, simply because I’ve read too many bad things about the company. No matter WHAT sort of software they come up with, I doubt that they’ll change the company’s ethics, which is what I’m concerned about.
One of these days I WILL actually try to figure out Mozilla or Opera. As it is, I have my internet settings to “Prompt before running Active X”, and a few other features disabled or have to have a prompt. It’s a pain, and some pages don’t run properly, but I find having a virus is even more of a pain.
Mozilla does exactly this with cookies. I tell it “No, I don’t want to take cookies from this site ever again in the life of the Universe.” Mozilla remembers this, and never asks again. BUT Mozilla has a cookie manager control panel where I can go in al change the settings for any site that I’ve made such a decision for.
No problem at all to expand the concept to trusting sites for software.
Amen. Some companies have destroyed their own reputations so thoroughly that I would be very happy to deny them access to my machine, forever.
And if the miracle happens that Gator or Comet Cursor or some shitware company actually makes something I MUST try, well, I can figure out how to take them off the hypothetical “never trust and never ask again” list. But I ain’t holding my breath.
A common them 'round here is to dump IE.
Then I see posts about ‘figuring out’ Mozilla.
So…any advice? Feel free to trash IE when giving adivice, because I’m fed up. It is my company’s standard, but since I use my own desktop at home now instead of my company laptop, I want to switch browsers from IE to anything.
Mozilla (Firebird?) gets plugs…is there anything to fear? other than fear itself"? I don’t have time to figure anything out. Brains…possibly. Time…no.
It’s Mozilla Firefox now.
My friend installed Firebird a few months ago and said it was very good apart from a bit of a pain to install and configure.
I gather they have rewitten the installation now - I installed a few days ago onto my 98SE box and it was smooth as a very smooth thing. Don’t recall having to configure anything, just ran the install file and off I went.
Haven’t had any problems at all. And no popups!!!
Doesn’t bother me a-tall. In fact, if there were a button labeled “never ever install Gator, and while you’re at it turkey-baste pure capsacin up the company’s president’s butthole,” hey, I’d click that bastard in a New York minute.
Until recently. Mozilla Firefox didn’t have an installer; it just came as a zip file, and that was probably difficult to manage for some people. But now with the installer, there’s very little that you need to figure out. Just launch the application and you’re off. You *can *download and install various extensions if you want, but popup blocking and cookie whitelisting (and various other features) are built-in. Plus there’s no ActiveX.
I would check the cookies setting though. Make sure “Ask me before accepting a cookie” is checked.