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"Recommended Programs - 'What You SHOULD Be Using'"

Should have a brand spanking new PC sitting here next week, and I've just decided I'm going to change my ways having read an article on Firefox being greater then IE.

So with a new PC comes along new ways. You see, on this PC I'll automatically open up Internet Explorer without a thought for the Internet. But when the new PC comes along I hope to break that habit.

So with that, I was thinking, what other programs are there that I SHOULD be using? Or just programs that are essential to have and you always find yourself using?

Hit me.

I can't comment from experience, but from a little reading around I gather that allowing to many pipe connections at once can be a heavy load on a web server hosting the web site, as it has to respond to more connections at a time.

Again, no experience here, but allowing to many pipes might also inadvertently have you added to a web site's firewall blacklist as being a hijacked robot attempting a DOS attack (lots of connections coming from the same machine).

This could be inaccurate of course, but I would have thought that default values are the defaults for a reason.

DiG wrote:
> Yeah that firefox tip is good, but i can cause a few loading problems,
> especially images and layout, so if things arnt loading then then
> thats probs the cause

No problem all. Glad to pass on the tip. DiG, I've never seen this problem on my browser. Any site in particular you can point me too?

Yeah that firefox tip is good, but i can cause a few loading problems, especially images and layout, so if things arnt loading then then thats probs the cause

Pandaemonium - I wuv you.

That Firefox tip is great. Thanks.

I have had a problem with some Flash files not loading straight away, prompting a refresh, but it's not a regular thing.

Nimco wrote:
> That's fantastic - pages load so much quicker! Why isn't it enabled
> by default?

There's supposedly an issue with shockwave. I've yet to see it.

Pandaemonium wrote:
> Monkey_With_Attitude wrote:
> I've used it for a while but recently switched back to IE. Firefox
> was giving me a slight delay in page loading and also slower image
> loading on web pages.
>
> Open Firefox and on the address bar write about:config and hit enter
> find the string
> network.http.pipelining
> double click and change the value to true
> find the string
> network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
> double click and change the value to 34
> find the string
> browser.turbo.enabled
> double click and change the value to true
>
> close and restart and see the new amazingly new speed of firefox...
>
>
> To reset settings,
> Right click on the setting you want to reset, the click on reset in
> the context menu.

That's fantastic - pages load so much quicker! Why isn't it enabled by default?

Monkey_With_Attitude wrote:
> Whats the advantages of Firefox?

Performance, security, the open source nature, the extensions, it's customisable and it's adherance to web standards.

It's just a far better product.

Coin wrote:
##
> It's no microsoft.
>
>
> It's free!
>
> It's cooler. Nyah.

Rather irrelevant reasons, seeing as IE is free, and the anti MS bashing is dumb.