Active X - Controls Help FFS

[Aratron]

is your version of winows and your web browser upto date ?

i think so

it jsut happens on two webpages on myspace and nothing else yet on other pcs i can access this without a problem. bizarre

[MangaFish]

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

[TechMouse]

www.getfirefox.com

[dan the acid man]

www.getfirefox.com

word

[MangaFish]

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)

[TechMouse]

pah - these days firefox is as insecure as internet explorer, slower than internet explorer, less stable and more resource hungry than internet explorer.

Based on what?

I agree about Opera.

[MangaFish]

Based on what?

I agree about Opera.

Independent research.

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)