Stable IE back with me..... Hopefully!!! :)

For almost 8-10 months now, I have been suffering having a very very irritating, unstable IE ( IE 7.0)as the default browser. I cant change the default browser settings as some 'Intra-net' sites open only in IE , and they cant be opened thro Firefox as the sites are allowed to accept connections only from IE.

So, as I had used Mozilla extensively, i had got the taste of Tab-browsing and didnt want to use different windows now, So, i upgraded from IE 6.0 to 7.0. I found that all Intra-net sites are opening without any problems at all. But the joy was short-lived :(

Within a few days IE 7.0, started showing signs for what it is very famous for ... CRASHes!!!
That led me to use only IE for very very important intranet links and for all other intranet links - IGNORE them :)

But, few days back i thought, Ok, let me try to revert back to 6.0 and see, as 6.0 is supported from the application support facility inside the company. So, here i went and un-installed 7.0 and got 6.0 back.

Till now 6.0 hasn't shown any issues, its much faster, more stable and above all .. RELIABLE!!!

So, my lifes going on fine with 2 good browsers, Firefox 2.0.0.14 and IE 6.0. I have Opera as well, but somehow dont find it as good and fast as Firefox.

Found that there are few more browsers like Flock and Maxthon thro my friends. Have gone ahead and downloaded them, not yet installed. Lets see how long all there browsers stay put up in my lappie.



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Mozilla Firefox is back on my lappie

Finally Mozilla Firefox is back on my lappie after a one month's haitus.

It all started with my friend coming home and tempting me to install a lot of Add-ons for Firefox ( which arent recommended but are available in mozilla.org). And as u would have guessed by now I fell for the temptation and installed a huge number of add-ons. and Thats it .. I didn't even knew what all they did but went ahead and installed.

And within a Day my Firefox started crashing when I'm doing my work in the Internet. I didn't know whom to blame, either my friend or My OS ( Win XP SP2) or Mozilla itself. I cant blame Firefox as i really cant live without it, so i had to blame my friend, and even scolded him for doing what was completely unnecessary.

Then for a month I was away from my Firefox. Once in a while I used to simple try to install the the already existing "firefox.exe" and try to somehow make it work. All my efforts went in vain. I even tried to download with the help of IE ( the browser I hate to the core, but was the browser for me for about a month) and installing it. But none of efforts produced results.

Then all I did was just curse my friend and lived with IE, upgraded it to IE7 just to get the feel of Mozilla but it simply couldn't match Firefox at all!!.

I left the hope of having a Firefox on my sys till I get a "Laptop refresh @ office". So was just waiting for that time. But came to know that Laptop refresh is going to happen only in Sep 2008. Was feeling very low. All for this Software. You might find it very funny but I know there are lot more people out there feeling the same.

Then today all of a sudden I wanted to try once more. So instead of using the same old "firefox.exe", which I had in my comp, I downloaded the newer version from the Internet - 2.0.0.12. Then before installation I went to the properties of the newly downloaded "firefox.exe" and found that there was a "Unblock" button on the properties dialog box. Happily clicked it as it said "That some program might have blocked this program from running".

Then installed it hoping that this will at least give me the "Mozilla Firefox" window in my screen.
Then after praying for some time I clicked on the "Mozilla Firefox" shortcut on my desktop. and guess wot .......



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The screen didn't open at all. Then now I cursed Microsoft for coming up with such a bad OS. Then in some hope i tried running it from the programs list, I went to All programs and clicked on Mozilla Firefox and also said "Safe Mode". Then I somehow had opened Task manager and was checking the firefox.exe process and wanted to end it and did it also. Then suddenly I saw a pop-up in the back., hurriedly closed the task manager and saw the pop-up. It said what all to block when opening in safe mode i clicked on "Disable all add-ons" remembering my friend. and said 'Continue' and Viola ... the next moment my fav browser was back on my screen. "Mozilla Firefox" is back on my lappie ..

I was so happy that I readily thought of putting it in my blog as I was thinking for months now as what would be my next post in the otherwise lousy blog.!!!