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[campbell2644]

I've been using Firefox for some years now and it's always been good. Many Happy Returns,Firefox

[TonyRony]

I've been using Firefox since the start. At the time, I liked its looks as it resembled Netscape. I don't frankly know whether Firefox performs better than Internet Explorer, but it still remains my strong favorite. Why? Simple -- As Mozilla has been introducing revisions, I've never felt lost due to the changes being so dramatic. If there's anything I can't stand, it's when you've devoted the time and effort to get comfortable with using a program, only to find that an update has made you a novice again. It's like bringing your car in for a tune-up, but suddenly not knowing how to use it any longer. So, many, many thanks to Firefox for introducing their changes in a slow, easier-to-handle EVOLUTIONARY manner vice Microsoft's dramatic REVOLUTIONARY changes. And I feel the same about Windows, by the way. Having to re-learn how to use my software is not my idea of an improvement.

[amazon13]

Thank you for your wise insight TonyRony, I have been saying the same thing. Why is it necessary to learn a program all over once you have mastered that version. That is what I think about Windows 8 and the last four updates that Microsoft has done to it's Windows versions without asking any of it's billions of customers for their input on changing the OS. All versions after Windows XP has been the crappiest OS's since I started using windows in 1991. Bill Gates like to change things up so that he can sell Windows customers more of the same old thing with a new face.

Windows is the only OS that started out buggy and has continued to be so up to today's version Windows 8, and I'm sure that it's full of bugs that were known before it was marketed for sell! The thing that I get perturbed about is the fact that customers must waste their time, on their own dime to fix these problems, while Bill Gates get even richer without any apologies for selling us buggy programs.

Windows 8 has it's first service pack coming out soon and these usually aren't small updates which consumers must pay for data downloads to update them, it's like Bill Gates feel it's the consumers duty to pay for all of the bug fixes to come during that version of Windows Lifespan! You know Windows didn't use to have Lifespans on there operating systems or end of life.

I find it odd that after the life span ends on Windows software it's still out there for purchase by consumers, why isn't the End Of Life software recalled due to the fact that Microsoft no longer provide technical support any more for obsolete software. And the prices are usually just as high for the software as it was the day it originally came out for obsolete software purchases.

Bill Gates starts up charitable organization all over the world for people and provide amenities that many Americans can't afford, yet he never gives back any thing free to the people in America who made him rich in the first place. Windows didn't start out available for all the world to purchase. Microsoft know exactly which of their software programs were duds before they ever offered them to the general public foe sale. He has never attempted to make amends to those consumers, I'm being one of them!

Be it known to all Windows users that Windows 8 is the beginning of Windows OS starting all over from the begging for another eternal version production, because it has been said that most if not all of your software programs probably won't even work on Windows 8. You would think that Gates would be concerned for all of the people that use windows and won't be able to start all over from scratch building a new arsenal of Windows Operating Systems because they're not rich like the Gates'.

[benmyers]

I've been using Firefox almost forever, but Firefox has jumped the shark! If you use the Firefox web browser, have you been plagued lately by annoying little ad pop-ups? Here's why. The Mozilla Foundation has made some sort of ad deals with somebody, so that if your mouse cursor happens to slide over an underlined word, up pops a stinking pop-up ad. For example, today I got an email from a Jennifer. Her first name was underlined in my webmail list of incoming messages. I ran the cursor over the word Jennifer and up popped an ad for Jennifer Convertibles store. This does not happen with all web sites, but it happens with some of the ones I use regularly, like eBay and Craigslist. I did a check to see if the same thing happens with Chrome and Internet Explorer. Nope. No popups for Jennifer there. These underlined ad words seem to turn up randomly. When I went back to check my web again, Jennifer was no longer underlined. But words like Password and Register were. Guess I gotta switch browsers, even though Firefox has some features that make my web browsing easier. Of course, I could always slide my mouse cursor around all the highlighted words, maybe causing carpal tunnel syndrome.

Some of the banner ads are getting increasingly more annoying, too, forcing you to view the ad for up to 15 seconds before you can do anything useful. The repetitive time-consuming ads for HP crap certainly do not nudge me toward buying anything HP. These ad geniuses do not get it, that bombarding people with stupid ads does not get the advertiser any business.

[brianmaster]

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I've been using Firefox almost forever, but Firefox has jumped the shark! If you use the Firefox web browser, have you been plagued lately by annoying little ad pop-ups? Here's why. The Mozilla Foundation has made some sort of ad deals with somebody, so that if your mouse cursor happens to slide over an underlined word, up pops a stinking pop-up ad. For example, today I got an email from a Jennifer. Her first name was underlined in my webmail list of incoming messages. I ran the cursor over the word Jennifer and up popped an ad for Jennifer Convertibles store. This does not happen with all web sites, but it happens with some of the ones I use regularly, like eBay and Craigslist. I did a check to see if the same thing happens with Chrome and Internet Explorer. Nope. No popups for Jennifer there. These underlined ad words seem to turn up randomly. When I went back to check my web again, Jennifer was no longer underlined. But words like Password and Register were. Guess I gotta switch browsers, even though Firefox has some features that make my web browsing easier. Of course, I could always slide my mouse cursor around all the highlighted words, maybe causing carpal tunnel syndrome. Some of the banner ads are getting increasingly more annoying, too, forcing you to view the ad for up to 15 seconds before you can do anything useful. The repetitive time-consuming ads for HP crap certainly do not nudge me toward buying anything HP. These ad geniuses do not get it, that bombarding people with stupid ads does not get the advertiser any business.

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