right dudes when im on myspace
on certain peoples myspace's, it will say in a window box
click to acitvate active x controls
tehn it just closes down internet explorer.
anyone know whats going on here?
Printable View
right dudes when im on myspace
on certain peoples myspace's, it will say in a window box
click to acitvate active x controls
tehn it just closes down internet explorer.
anyone know whats going on here?
what firewall are you using ?
im using the pcguard program which comes with blueyonder
thats it
that's a shicking bit of software to be honest, it could be that that's causing these problems.
if you go to start, control panel, network and internet connections, internet options, security, what does it say you internet level of security is set to, if its not set to custom, change it to custom
i have doen that dude i rest the it when i reset ti to custom
its still saying click to run an active x control on thi webpage then explorer crashes
is your version of winows and your web browser upto date ?
i think soQuote:
Originally Posted by dan the acid man
it jsut happens on two webpages on myspace and nothing else yet on other pcs i can access this without a problem. bizarre
some myspace accounts have nasties scripted into it. i'd be careful of running any activex control you're unsure of.
in fact the only activex control that myspace should have loaded is Macromedia Flash and i'm pretty sure you'd have noticed if every webpage with flash on crashed
wordQuote:
Originally Posted by TechMouse
pah - these days firefox is as insecure as internet explorer, slower than internet explorer, less stable and more resource hungry than internet explorer.
Opera is a far superior browser imo. Especially on *nix systems.
Also, if you haven't already, download Opera mini for your mobile phones / PDAs / XDAs / etc. It really will revolutionise the way you surf the net on your handheld devices!
(i should get paid for this kind of PR hehe)
Based on what?Quote:
Originally Posted by MangaFish
I agree about Opera.
Independent research.Quote:
Originally Posted by TechMouse
Opera has the least security holes. Firefox and IE are about even (i believe IE has more serious holes, but Firefox has more overal flaws from the article i read a couple of months back)
Look up webbrowser benchmarks and FireFox usually ranks pretty low on page fetches and rendering.
As for system resources. On a PC system Firefox takes longer to start than IE, uses more memory than IE and i've had it crash on a stable Windows system more times than i care to remember.
Don't get me wrong, Firefox is still better than IE imo, but then Opera is better than Firefox.
At the end of the day though, now browser is safe (especially when given to the average novice home user) so firewalls, virus scanners and so forth, is highly recommended.
I'd say the best advice is use the browser that best suits your needs and skills, and stick as much security software on your internet system as you can (and exercise some common sense. Don't download files called "i love you.exe" hehe)
yeah opera is pretty good, only just started using it again
That people know about.Quote:
Originally Posted by MangaFish
Don't forget the source code for Firefox is open, so security experts can look through it - hence it's much easier to find holes, and issue patches.
There are probably many more holes in IE, they just haven't been found (or fixed) yet.
Out of the box or when optomised?Quote:
Originally Posted by MangaFish
This is possibly true. Though it does depend how many extensions you have installed.Quote:
Originally Posted by MangaFish
The session restore functions are really helpful though.
Is FF open source? I know Mozilla is but i didn't think FF was (though i've never really checked).
As for they're probably more holes in IE that are undiscovered: maybe, maybe not. IE gets a lot more attention to scrutiny by hackers and script kiddies if just because it's the most globally used webbrowsers. However, both our arguments are entirely speculation.
Out of the box or when optomised?
Out of the box. However bare in mind that the vast majority of web-surfers wouldn’t know how to optimise FF and the other half (myself included) are not being motivated enough to play around with the options. But in all fairness you do raise a good point that some browsers potential isn’t always realised in the default configuration.
This is possibly true. Though it does depend how many extensions you have installed.
It’s true without any additional extensions installed though bulking out the system with extra plugin’s to escalate the situation.
The session restore functions are really helpful though.
Is this new to FF v2? Opera has session restore functions as well and I find it invaluable so I can see how FF users would find them helpful as well.
At the end of the day – the web browser is only every going to be as good as the person using it. FF and Opera would be over kill for my mum who barely handles IE 5.5, where as I personally find Opera 9.x much more intuitive to the way I work than FF or IE. There’s some FF users who hate default Opera’s layout. It’s all horses of courses.