Should I get a new webrowser?

[Mr. Peanuts]

I haven't had any problems with IE, I just notice little things which could be improved. Thats why I use Mozilla Firefox

How the hell do you get hacked? I have never had any problems with that kind of thing, I have no firewall or anti-virus etc...

[Ewan]

What's your IP?

[cundor]

I've downloaded FireFox, talk to me if you want to know how I feel about it

[DOTSY]

I've downloaded FireFox, talk to me if you want to know how I feel about it

i would like to talk to u any time

[Mr. Peanuts]

The whole "I can access ur comp via ur IP" think is bullshit I reckon..

Me too Dotsy but cundor hates me.

[Bioture]

knowing someone's IP doesnt do much at all, since most computer's IPs are public info anyway. (Blocking your IP causes certain apps to not work at all: like IE, but can be useful if you don't want your IP displayed during a filesharing session) In order to "hack" a computer you need to be able to access an application or exploit a certain flaw on the victim's computer. So if you have a firewall, you're ok. And if you don't, you should also be fine if you at least have an antivirus software of sorts and run it regularly.

[Mr. Peanuts]

Well I must have loads of hidden viruses. Awww my own little pets, they don't seem to affect much...

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IE for life its on all my systesm school, home work what is your issue, maybe i can help you with it?

[Jerome Scuggs]

Opera. It has tabbed browsing, gestures, quick notes all as standard stuff, plus a built in email client. Also user/author mode that shows webpages minus images, or with the raw html around the content

[geekbot]

I use Opera. http://www.opera.com/ It has many of the same features that Mozilla has.

Some features:

Tabbed-browsing (ctrl-tab/ctrl-shift-tab or 1/2 to switch between windows)

Opening windows in the background (you can quickly open 4-5 windows in the background and continue surfing, for example when google finds 4-5 relavant web pages)

F11- full screen (IE and Mozilla both do this)

Zoom in and out quickly (type 9 or 0)

Forward and back quickly (type z or x and it's cached so it's fast)

Rewind/Fast forward (shift-z or shift-x) goes back to the first page of a domain or guess what the next page is. This is really cool- say you're browsing many pages in a site...shift-z will "rewind" or jump back to the first page you looked at in that domain. If you're done browsing a site and want to go back to what you were doing before, shift-z a few times and you're back. Shift-x will guess the next page....for instance, it will go to the next google page of results or the next thread in this forum. Works with many pages that have a "next" link.

All the buttons/toolbars are complete configurable (a little too much imo but you can basically put anything anywhere...you want 5 back buttons, you got it).

EDIT: Opera can block pop-ups too...I have it set to open pop-ups in the background and i have a separate ad-blocking program.