Go Chrome?

Been using Foxfire. For quite a while... not working well. Will admit... computer is a Windows 7 system. May be my computer? Thinking to go to Google Chrome.

Would appreciate any help. Sincerely. bruce.

brucev said:

Would appreciate any help. Sincerely.

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Help with what? Whether you should use Chrome?
Yeah, sure, try it. Go ahead and load it, and see how you like it.

BTW, Firefox on Windows 7 works fine for most things, but the more recent versions of FF, have security features that block some web content by default, that the older versions allowed.

Internet Explorer can always be used as an alternate.

Without knowing what your specific problems are, it's like asking a blind man to perform brain surgery.

BTW: Firefox released a new version just a few days ago. Maybe you should update? Also, I do not use anything with Google's moniker associated with it, given their invasive data mining.

My IT Dept......(AKA my 18year old son)..... switched me to Chrome about a year ago.........

Sure, give Chrome a try.

It's no big deal. If you don't like it, uninstall it. Or you can keep multiple browsers on your PC.

Thanks to one and all for the information and advice. Mostly ignorant about computers. Was not sure if installing Chrome would mess anything up. Sincerely. bruce.

I, being a dinosaur, have AOL but still have Internet Explorer and Google Chrome installed on my computer. My wife, who is our IT department takes care of these things so I'm merely along for the ride.

From my passengers prospective, they all work OK although I am still paying for AOL when apparently most folks get there internet for free. Did I say I am not good on change. I've had the same AOL email address since Fred Flintstone and I got our first computers. God, I've become my father.

JSR III said:

From my passengers prospective, they all work OK although I am still paying for AOL when apparently most folks get there internet for free. Did I say I am not good on change. I've had the same AOL email address since Fred Flintstone and I got our first computers. God, I've become my father.

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I'm still using my AOL email address for most things but I canceled AOL service over a decade ago. Unless you're relying on AOL as your Internet Sevice Provider (I thought AOL only provided dial-up?) you don't need to pay them anything to retain your AOL email address.

My mom had been using broadband for years when the subject came up that she was still paying AOL. She never quite understood how broadband worked and thought that you had to go through the AOL home page to "get on the Internet" and retrieve her email and all that. I'm not sure she fully comprehends it, but when I told her to stop paying AOL she liked that idea.

I have both firefox and chrome, I use chrome 99% of the time.

You should definitely try it!
It's easy to download and install.
You can always go back to Firefox or other browser if you don't like it.
I prefer Chrome on the iPad, using it right now.

I used Firefox for years, really liked it. Except for the constant pop-ups trying to get me to upgrade to the pay version, and which eventually became so annoying I was driven to look for a new browser.

I switched to Opera and never looked back. It's performed flawlessly, has a small footprint, great features, and best of all I NEVER see an advertisement. I love the 'Speed Dial' format, where I have the icons for my most used sites lined up. I can't say enough about this great little browser.

Recently Opera was bought out by a Chinese company. I'm once again looking for a new browser.

I've been hearing good things about Vivaldi, I may check into that.

"Except for the constant pop-ups trying to get me to upgrade to the pay version, and which eventually became so annoying I was driven to look for a new browser. "

Strange. I have never gotten any Firefox upgrade solicitation popups, and I have used only Firefox almost ever since there was a Firefox - clear back to the early Windows XP days. I also have never had any problems whatsoever with Firefox and would use nothing else. It works great on my W7 and W10 laptops. I do have both Chrome and Opera installed on my three laptops, but only as emergency backups to Firefox. I do occasionally use Opera for my eMail. If you are having problems with Firefox, I would download and install the latest version. I will never, ever, use Internet Explorer or whatever Microsoft calls it now. I deleted it from my latest laptop purchase about a year ago and installed Firefox the first thing out of the box.

Donna K said:

I used Firefox for years, really liked it. Except for the constant pop-ups trying to get me to upgrade to the pay version, and which eventually became so annoying I was driven to look for a new browser.

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Firefox is a free browser. No upgrade to a paid version has ever been possible.
It's been my go-to browser for years, on both Windows and Mac. The available add-on's allow great customization, for security and user friendliness.

Maybe you were hacked and someone spoofed your browser.

Donna K said:

I used Firefox for years, really liked it. Except for the constant pop-ups trying to get me to upgrade to the pay version, and which eventually became so annoying I was driven to look for a new browser.

I switched to Opera and never looked back. It's performed flawlessly, has a small footprint, great features, and best of all I NEVER see an advertisement. I love the 'Speed Dial' format, where I have the icons for my most used sites lined up. I can't say enough about this great little browser.

Recently Opera was bought out by a Chinese company. I'm once again looking for a new browser.

I've been hearing good things about Vivaldi, I may check into that.

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Firefox has never asked for a paid version on my computer. I strongly suspect it was malware.

DWalt said:

"Except for the constant pop-ups trying to get me to upgrade to the pay version, and which eventually became so annoying I was driven to look for a new browser. "

Strange. I have never gotten any Firefox upgrade solicitation popups, and I have used only Firefox almost ever since there was a Firefox - clear back to the early Windows XP days. I also have never had any problems whatsoever with Firefox and would use nothing else. It works great on my W7 and W10 laptops. I do have both Chrome and Opera installed on my three laptops, but only as emergency backups to Firefox. I do occasionally use Opera for my eMail. If you are having problems with Firefox, I would download and install the latest version. I will never, ever, use Internet Explorer or whatever Microsoft calls it now. I deleted it from my latest laptop purchase about a year ago and installed Firefox the first thing out of the box.

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Thank you to all of you that pointed this out to me. It's been a couple of years since I used Firefox, and I think perhaps I was confusing it with a pop-up problem I was having with Zone Alarm, back around that same time. At any rate, at some point I did have a major problem with Firefox, after an update to it. Don't recall the particulars, but it did stop working correctly and I was unable to solve the issue.

I will probably give Vivaldi a try. If that doesn't work out then it's back to Firefox for me

Firefox has been my go-to browser for many years-I think I started using it around '02 or '03.

When FF won't fit the bill, I prefer Webkit(Safari) alternatives.

BTW, because FF is open source, I use a couple of forks. One of these is called TenFourFox, and is so named because it works on PowerPC Macs running OS 10.4 and 10.5. It maintains source parity(for now) with Firefox, so all plug-ins and the like still work. It's also built in four different versions to allow you to fully leverage all the instruction sets available for a given processor. With that said, Flash and a couple of other things are disabled by default because there is no secure, up to date PowerPC version.

The other fork is called Classilla, which is a "lightweight" browser intended to run in Mac OS 8.6-9.2.2("Classic"). It actually-by default-spoofs itself as a cell phone so that it renders the "mobile" versions of websites.

I do not like Chrome. One of the reasons for it is a personal one-I like having separate search and address bars, something which only Firefox offers in terms of mainstream browsers. The other reason is something that's a double edged sword-each tab is a separate system process. This makes Chrome very stable, as one problematic tab can be shut down without affecting the browser. It also means, though, that with very many tabs open it's VERY resource intensive. In addition, the handling of multiple tabs is very different in FF vs. Chrome. Firefox will only compress the title of the tab to the point where it's still more or less legible, and then allows you to scroll through the tabs. Chrome will compress to a point where only icons for each tabs are visible. This is a personal preference, but I much prefer the FF approach.

I've been using Chrome for a few years now, ever since IE got so slow and cumbersome. At the time Chrome was much faster and I've stuck with it even with a new computer. I like it and it's easy to use.

I've used nothing but Chrome for 3 or 4 years. Happy with it. Always hated IE, used Netscape & Firefox before Chrome.

I like Chrome the best; out of IE, Firefox and Safari. I know IE best but my Chrome works fine with Windows 10. You do have to watch some of the settings for security though. Sometimes I can't get a video to run on Chrome but will run fine on IE.

Don't overlook Opera. As I said earlier, I don't use it much as compared to Firefox, but when I do, I've never had any problems with it. For some reason, my wife prefers Opera, but most of what she does on a computer is eMail.