Firefox v Chrome...

[monty]

Feb 10, 2015 12:47:02 GMT ceedee said:

Feb 10, 2015 12:23:06 GMT Q said:

I use XP, 7 & 8.1
I still prefer XP, but once you get used to it 8.1 is an improvement over 7, stick with it, remember the hoohah when Win95 replaced 3.1?

Having said that I still have an old 3.1 machine and love it

I've still not got over PC-DOS overtaking CP/M!

I have a cardboard Turing machine. You can write a program and manually move the pointer and change zeros and ones.

[Q]

I did my training on an IBM PCXT just as they were releasing the AT

[Q]

And I STILL know/love Spectrum Basic

[ceedee]

Feb 10, 2015 12:52:49 GMT monty said:

Feb 10, 2015 12:47:02 GMT ceedee said:

I've still not got over PC-DOS overtaking CP/M!

I have a cardboard Turing machine. You can write a program and manually move the pointer and change zeros and ones.

Ah, but does it play tunes?


I used to work on a very expensive, top of the range, photo-typesetting machine that was programmed in a 6-bit variant of EBCDIC and input using punched paper tape.


But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.

[mrmotivapr]

Chrome for me on Windows 8.1.

Not a fan of Windows 8 though!

[Raffles]

Many thanks for all your advice, I'm getting used to Chrome now.

Some of the comments certainly brought back memories...

Apart from learning BASIC on the various Sinclairs (ZX81 & Spectrum) at home, my first introduction at work was an HP terminal linked to the company's mainframe, but I could use it to write simple programmes. Then the IBM PCs with Visicalc installed (Wow!).

I was then given this Compaq portable (?) to take work home with me, twin floppies, and weighed a ton, but managed to adapt the company's budgetting process to a spreadsheet with macros (I think it was 123 by then). Thought I knew it all back then, now I'm easily lost.

[chrisjw]

Never used Firefox................Too many reviews banging on about how great it was..........A recipe for disaster in my book, so it's chrome all the way.............



"Life...........is just a bowl of tricks!!!!!!"

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give qupzilla browser a try i use that when iam on windows but very rare now as i use linux mostly

[osdset]

Feb 10, 2015 12:58:04 GMT Q said:

And I STILL know/love Spectrum Basic

The ZX Spectrum with it's dead flesh keyboard, oh the fun I had waiting for the cassette tape to load Manic Miner, the thrill when it finally loaded on and I was greeted with the theme tune 'The Hall of the Mountain King'.

[flavourtank]

i was using firefox on win 8.1 and i had to keep closing browser down as it just hung about doing nothing, re fired firefox and was fine for 10min then had to close down so im using chrome now

[Chrissie]

I've been using Firefox for many years - it just works for me exactly as I want it to, no matter which OS I'm using. If anything, I'm finding it even quicker than ever with Windows 8.1.

[dreamylittledream]

Feb 10, 2015 18:44:20 GMT osdset said:

Feb 10, 2015 12:58:04 GMT Q said:

And I STILL know/love Spectrum Basic

The ZX Spectrum with it's dead flesh keyboard, oh the fun I had waiting for the cassette tape to load Manic Miner, the thrill when it finally loaded on and I was greeted with the theme tune 'The Hall of the Mountain King'.

Meh C64 for the win

Mainly for the various superstitions me and my mate used to go through to ensure that games actually loaded after the ten minute wait.

Kids those days etc etc lol

[TillyFTW]

Firefox