Question from a dumbie

[proud2BlibKansan]

Ok, I admit. I use a Mac because PCs make me crazy. And I grew up on Macs and am too old to learn new computer stuff.

Now I have a problem that is driving me crazy.

I was invited to join a discussion board and I registered but every time I try to log on to that site, my internet connection goes POOF. My husband - who is a PC person - says he thinks the website is not Mac compatible. I have run into this problem before on other websites but usually it just takes forever and a day to access the website and then it just won't come up at all. But this deal with my internet connection going down has never happened before.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

[Poiuyt]

1. Are you loosing your internet connection, or is your browser crashing?

I've had FireFox crash when going to certain sites (Java related problems), but I'm always able to access them from Internet Explorer. I've heard of banking sites where you need the latest upgrades. I've never heard of anyone loosing their entire connection just from going to a site.

What OS and which browser are you using? You might try using a different browser. IE, Safari, FireFox are the most popular ones for the Mac. Some people like Opera or Omni.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. My bad

I guess my browser is crashing. My screen disappears and I get a message that Internet Explorer has quit unexpectedly.

My son wonders if this would not happen in OS9.

I have OSX. Internet Explorer.

[gold_bug]

3. try a different browser?

Safari or Firefox.

I've tried Safari on every forum software that I could find and never encountered a glitch. I keep Java turned off, but I don't know if that really matters.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. I have read here about Firefox

Is it really better than IE? And is it hard to load? I assume it doesn't cost anything.

[bullimiami]

5. firefox is free and no problem to install or load

but I still prefer safari, its just more mac-integrated and just simple.

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

the safari should have been included in your osx installer unless you are running a very old version. in which case you should probably update the os as well.

[Poiuyt]

6. Everything is better than IE

I use Firefox as my default browser rather than Safari because I have a three button mouse and I like to use the right button to go back or reload a page. Those functions aren't supported in Safari (though I've heard they will be when OS 10.4 comes out). Both Firefox and Safari load pages much faster than IE. The big advantage to IE, ironically, is its compatibility with different web sites.

[mrbassman03]

7. Yeah, I found too many bugs with Firefox...

Just wasn't stable enough for me, I switched back to Safari. Fuck IE though.

[realisticphish]

8. what was your last update of firefox?

now that it's 1.0, and not beta, its pretty stable; ive had it crash only one time, and thats when i had about 15 programs at once with only 612 in RAM

:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[rhite5]

9. I just installed FireFox yesterday. Love it!

Finally, I can dump IE, the only Microsoft product I was still using.

I was pleased that it imported all of my IE Favorites, organized just the way I wanted them. I like being able to design more than one personalized tool bar. I like the Ad-blocker, and am eager to try out more of the optional extensions. Most of all I like the philosophy behind it -- cooperative Open Source.