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[Roundabout Lout]

I tried to get dwarf companion working using python 2.52, never got it working, messed around with the .dll files and everything.
Only now, for some reason, IE7 is refusing to show java, which also limits which links i can click on.
I've reinstalled Java and flash, but have had no luck. Can anyone help?

Edit: The issue is resolved, almost. IE wouldn't let me install a new browser,so i was stuck. But itunes had auto-installed safari, so i'm using it for now. But what's best? Firefox, or google chrome. I'm done with IE forever.

[Tahin]

Format your hard drive, reinstall Windows. It's the only way. Quickly! Before it's too late!

[Fualkner]

I'd assume you tried a restart, removing Python and Dwarf Companion, and trying different web browsers?

If you did, tough luck man.

[Tahin]

Edit: The issue is resolved, almost. IE wouldn't let me install a new browser,so i was stuck. But itunes had auto-installed safari, so i'm using it for now. But what's best? Firefox, or google chrome. I'm done with IE forever.

Yeah... Don't use IE. I've never actually heard of it doing that, but I'm not surprised.

I'd suggest either Firefox or Opera. I don't have any experience with Chrome.

[PTTG??]

I would avoid chrome like the plauge; I use google for one thing, and that's searches. Anything else is against what Al Gore intended when he built the internet.

[Jay Kayell]

Crome actually traces every keystroke you make while you are using it. I would avoid it.
IE 8 will also have this function.

[umiman]

Chrome is very much a beta product. It feels like a... Mac kinda browser. You know, browser for regular joe who only checks football scores and Facebook.

It lacks a lot of very basic options and makes some other option strangely difficult to alter. Furthermore, the bookmarking system in Chrome is completely *new* (note that new here does not denote either good or bad) and as such, you'd probably have to spend quite a while getting used to it.

The one major benefit Chrome has is that because every tab is an individual browser on its own, if one crashes, you won't lose the rest. However, this can seriously eat up your memory if you powersurf and really, if your browser is crashing so often that this is a concern, I think you have bigger problems to worry about.

Overall, I much prefer Firefox myself based on addons, customizability, and control. Seriously, Firefox is incredible with the addons. Here's what I'm using right now:

1. Adblock Plus: Gives you the option to kill virtually all ads (and the option to block annoying flash ads)
2. Colorful Tabs: All my tabs have different colours. Helps quite a bit when you powersurf with only one browser.
3. DownloadHelper: Easiest to use streaming video downloader. Works on virtually every streaming video site.
4. DownThemAll!: Convenient download manager that lets you download everything on a page.
5. FlagFox: Puts a little tiny flag at the bottom right corner of your browser telling you what country the current website is from.
6. IE Tab: Awesome tool. Let's you instantly change your tab from an IE browser to a Firefox browser without affecting your other tabs. Very useful for sites that don't support Firefox (Yahoo! for one)
7. Image Zoom: Hold down right-click and use your mouse wheel to instantly and fluidly change picture sizes on any website. Good for forums when morons post pictures too large that it stretches the page.
8. StumbleUpon: The perfect tool for boredom. Click the button to see a cool page that other people came across. Can be customized to your liking so it only shows what you want to see.

[Keiseth]

I use Firefox as my main browser, with a few plugins and such. I use chrome as my light browser when I just need a page displayed for reference (like when programming) or when I just want to check something quickly (as there's no AdBlock / NoScript / Other Protection by default.)

They both have a place on my computer. Two different places for two different purposes. I don't think Chrome is intended to be a fully fledged uber browser. It serves its purpose well enough though, and it has a simple elegance to its design that is pleasant on the eyes, though also a bit less usable for that reason.

[Cthulhu]

I also use Firefox, it has some memory leak issues, but I haven't seen them in a long time.

[Roundabout Lout]

Thanks everyone! I'm using firefox now with most of umiman's plugin suggestions, and am enjoying it so far. But what's this about some sites not working in firefox?

[umiman]

Some sites like Yahoo and my university website are not *totally* functional with Firefox. You can still load them mind you, but things like Yahoo!'s shoutcast... thing music system won't work. So you can still browse them. I just hit the quick switch if a webpage isn't fully compatible.

[Kagus]

The only thing Firefox is a bugger about is tracking cookies.  I can go to the same sites with IE as with Firefox, and Firefox will end up letting in a basketload of trackers.

Not much of a problem, and most certainly not enough to use IE over Firefox, but still something of an annoyance.  Everything else is superb.


I haven't used Opera in ages though, so I don't know how it works nowadays.  It was made by a Norwegian company, however.  That's always fun.

[Helmaroc]

I use Safari, it is free and now has both a Mac and PC version. I find it faster than Firefox and of course IE. It also has a built in spell checker (right now Firefox is underlined in red) and I think it's interface is quite a bit sleeker than the others. I have not had experience with Opera.

[Tormy]

Eh? So what exactly have you done that IE refused to work properly? I never ever had a problem like this. IE works like a charm in the good hands. 

[Roundabout Lout]

IE stopped working after i installed python and the runtimes needed for DF companion, i'd say a .dll error but all other browsers work fine, so i blame IE.