Web Browsers Issues

[Dave_H_M]

I am using a local phone company for DSL, my only option. I have Firefox and IE for getting on.

The two browsers do not work eq1ually. I have to use IE to check my email.

When it comes to video's and some pics, Firefox is the only one that will load and play them.

I have run avast and malwarebytes and things seem clean.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

[wa8yxm]

I once had malware disable selected browsers on selected sites.

That said; Some sites are intentionally designed to work with one browser better than another. For example many Microsoft stites at one time only worked with MISE, they actually ask the browser "What are you" and if it did not respond properly the site would load wonky. I can understand Microsoft doing that, but not Joe's Pizza. (Generic name for any site selling stuff).

All browsers have secret "Hooks" where you can shortcut code writing to take advantage of an undocumented feature.

Some web designers stick to teh standards like glue,, Their pages work with ALL browers.. others take advantage of the undocumented feature of this or that browser and thus loose customers.

[1492]

jcpainter wrote:
Why do you need to use IE to check your email? What email service provider are you using?

You may only have an envelope icon in IE, but most online email programs have a webmail program that you can access from any browser.

X2. You need to specify your email provider?

[AsheGuy]

Clay L wrote:
That way our emails and contacts are always on our computers and can be backed up.

🙂 To each his own, but that is just the opposite to my thinking. I use Chrome so my email and contacts will not be on any of my systems so I can access them from any PC, tablet or cell phone and don't have to worry about backup.

[Lexicon7]

I'm with "kmbelt" on this: considering Google has the world by the tail in terms of servers, stands to predictable reason that their browser would rule the ether! Internet Exploder is and has always been a sticky ad ridden mess and Chrome has so much to offer you will spend days if not weeks exploring all the great features like "auto fill" just for one.. Absolutely no comparison!
Like them or not... Google rules!

[Clay_L]

I used FireFox for years and now use Chrome. In both cases I use Thunderbird as my email client. I use MailWasher to look at the headers, delete the crud and then have Thunderbird download the ones I want. That way our emails and contacts are always on our computers and can be backed up.
My email addresses are on CompuServe and Outlook.live and my wife's are on Yahoo and Outlook.live.

[kmbelt]

Use Google Chrome and all will be well.

IE is the absolute worst browser ever made.

[downtheroad]

jcpainter wrote:
Why do you need to use IE to check your email? What email service provider are you using?

You may only have an envelope icon in IE, but most online email programs have a webmail program that you can access from any browser.

Agree.
We use Firefox and have this add-on to check email from any provider.

x-notifier HERE

[jcpainter]

Why do you need to use IE to check your email? What email service provider are you using?

You may only have an envelope icon in IE, but most online email programs have a webmail program that you can access from any browser.

[RoyB]

I use FIREFOX Ver 36.0 here and have been seeing some slowing down of it this past week. It comes and goes...

We use Advanced system Care and Malwarebytes Anti Malware (Both free versions)...

It running fast today????

Roy Ken