I've just been trying to log in to GOG now to buy something, and suddenly it won't take my PW and tells me that there is no account linked to my e-mail addy!  What the!!!  What do I do now???

Strangely, the problem only applied to IE, it seems.  I tried FF, and no probs at all. Game bought. Ok, so I still adore GOG!

Norton and IE....names that anyone with a bit of Tech knowledge learns to fear/hate

Originally Posted By Support (16 NOV 2012 9:44am)

Norton and IE....names that anyone with a bit of Tech knowledge learns to fear/hate

Hear, hear. Norton was only good at bloating my system and conflicting with software. IE wasn't quite was bad, but was slow enough. I stopped using both of those some years ago and never looked back.

What, you guys don't like IE? I'm personally a proud supporter of "help save IE6":

http://saveie6.com/

IE is the safest browser of the moment... really, because no one uses it anymore, hackers are focussing on firefox and chrome instead 

proudly running IE8... what should I use?

IE is used more then any other web browser. Firefox makes up around 18% IIRC, IE is over 50% +.

Part of the perks of being the default browser in an OS.

Posting on JA with FF is easier and has one small perk. But that's my little secret. 

Originally Posted By Stiler (16 NOV 2012 7:20pm)

IE is used more then any other web browser. Firefox makes up around 18% IIRC, IE is over 50% +.

 

Part of the perks of being the default browser in an OS.

Actually, the latest numbers that I have seen indicates that IE has far fewer users these days. Chrome is the most popular browser at 30.6%, I.E is at second place, at 22%, Firefox 3rd with 19.1%, Safari 4th with 15.1%

Originally Posted By tincup2 (16 NOV 2012 7:19pm)

proudly running IE8... what should I use?

A later version of IE would be better than IE8. Remember that those old browsers don't get updated and thus security holes won't be plugged. Either that, or switch to any other major browser (Firefox, Chrome or Opera)

Originally Posted By Fnord (17 NOV 2012 7:57am)

A later version of IE would be better than IE8. Remember that those old browsers don't get updated and thus security holes won't be plugged. Either that, or switch to any other major browser (Firefox, Chrome or Opera)

I tried IE9 last year but did not like the way the Favorites tab and subfolders displayed and worked. I "live" out of this tab and did not want to reach for it on the right side of the screen and have it snap back every time. IE9 was less configurable for my needs - but that is a general trend with all MS stuff in general it seems.

Tried Chrome but my fonts got all fuzzy and screwed up and the known fixes were not worth the effort. Tried FF some time ago but didn't grab me for some reason - can't even remember why, and I haven't tried Safari.

Originally Posted By tincup2 (17 NOV 2012 8:38am)

Tried Chrome but my fonts got all fuzzy and screwed up and the known fixes were not worth the effort. Tried FF some time ago but didn't grab me for some reason - can't even remember why, and I haven't tried Safari.

 

Safari is Mac only. Opera though is quite nice. A bit slow on the startup, but it is fast in general. 

Originally Posted By Fnord (17 NOV 2012 7:57am)

Originally Posted By Stiler (16 NOV 2012 7:20pm)

IE is used more then any other web browser. Firefox makes up around 18% IIRC, IE is over 50% +.

 

Part of the perks of being the default browser in an OS.

 

Actually, the latest numbers that I have seen indicates that IE has far fewer users these days. Chrome is the most popular browser at 30.6%, I.E is at second place, at 22%, Firefox 3rd with 19.1%, Safari 4th with 15.1%

 

Here are the numbers from October of this year:

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/11/firefox-dips-below-20-percent-chrome-falls-internet-explorer-gains/

IE - 54.13%

Firefox - 19.99%

Chrome is at 18.55%

Different sources give very different numbers

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-201210-201210-bar

http://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=0&qpcustomd=0&qptimeframe=M&qpsp=165

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

http://royal.pingdom.com/2012/04/23/current-status-of-the-browser-wars/

Pingdom is the only one that gives stats by region, and according to it IE is the most popular browser in the US and Australia (Oceania), but nowhere else. Its statistics by region is from April though. 

I use IE9--but yes, i admit that i preferred IE7.  IE8 was just terrible.  I sometimes use Opera,  but it is pretty slow for me compared to FF.  I like FF because it's fast, reliable and has a bunch of cool plug-ins.

Haven't really used Chrome yet, (although it's sitting on my system) but one of the things i rather disliked about Google, is that it's a bit harder to customise, and tends to railroad you into choices based on their marketing practices.

Admittedly Google has nice features like the translate feature, but you can use the Google toolbar on top of IE 9as well.

Originally Posted By Support (16 NOV 2012 9:44am)

Norton and IE....names that anyone with a bit of Tech knowledge learns to fear/hate

Me, I've learned already to stay away from them - never use 'em.

In fact, in my Windows PC's I don't even use 'em. Use only either Firefox or Safari for Windows. Learned this at Barnes & Noble's cafe this past Summer 2012.

My recent computer problems have not been adequately resolved so I've had to switch from IE6 to firefox.