Well,
What browser do you all use? I've always liked Chrome for web surfing, but if there is a less problematic browser out there I'd like to know which one is recommended by my associates here.
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Well,
What browser do you all use? I've always liked Chrome for web surfing, but if there is a less problematic browser out there I'd like to know which one is recommended by my associates here.
ah there's a can of worms... :D
I certainly wouldn't say chrome was a bad browser, certainly not bad enough not to use; any more than I would say don't use google search, although duckduckgo is a good alternative [I think you use that Gary?]
All the major windowssearch enginesbrowsers: Edge, IE, FireFox, Chrome are good, although IE is effectively depricated by MS so it should be phased out
What it boils down to it how you use them - do you want them to work out of the box, or do you want to customise them so they behave in a way you prefer? - out of the box use any of them [except IE] - you will pay a price in terms of privacy and putting up with ads ... but everything has it's price - which ever you prefer
So chrome is fine if you want to use a browser out of the box; the reason I don't care for it is because it is far harder to customise the way I like than Firefox which is my main browser
Opera is still my fave.
I didn't appreciate the deep interaction Google has in Opera: http://laptopmedia.com/highlights/th...rfox-vs-opera/.
I use Opera when I want to not be snooped on as it has in-built VPN. In such occasions, speed is not important.
Acorn
opera is not the same since it lost its independance - but it is still there and if you need a free VPN that is certainly a good point... although not sure I would want to use a free one.....
So, duckduckgo is really an add-on to Chrome, not an actual stand-alone browser?
duckduckgo is a search engine, not a browser - sorry if I caused confusion there....
I used to opera and loved it. Switched to firefox and used that for a long time, however I like and use speed dial and that no longer works with firefox, a lot of things don't since they changed it, so I switched back to opera. I must admit though that opera is no longer the same easy to use browser I liked. I tried Chrome but that was not for me.
Thanks for the clarification, Steve.
No you did just fine. I'm just very slow.
George,
THANKS!
I think that article you referred me to might have done. I searched to see if there was any traces of Simplitec on my hard drive. There wasn't. However, after I ran the "Registry Cleaner" in CCleaner and then rebooted, I haven't seen the Simplitec PUPs after running Malwarebytes or RogueKiller.
So, this is hoping in future scans it doesn't appear anymore.