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KarstenK wrote: Firefox is "new IE"
As I understood IE is the new Netscape, Safari is the new IE, Firefox is the new Safari, Edge takes Firefox's place and Chrome keeps its top position as Chrome.
Also, C# is the new Java while Java is floating in the vast nothingness of space under Oracle's leadership. jQuery is the new vanilla JavaScript while vanilla JavaScript upped its game and got promoted to the new jQuery. TypeScript is the other new JavaScript.
It's all quite confusing.
Meanwhile we had to tell a customer we agreed to not support IE7 because they standardized on IE8 and would now standardize on IE10 just last Friday 
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Why did I hear Dueling Banjos in the background while I was reading your post? 
Software Zen: delete this;
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Chrome isn't faster, it literally sucks.
That is running on a slightly older laptop (yes, a weaker CPU, limited RAM). Chrome runs like a pig and sucks the batter dry in no time. And the "solution" from them, remove/disable your add-ons and don't open more then a few tabs at once, or IN OTHER WORDS run it in simpleton ugly mode that makes it perhaps all of 0.001% better then say, Edge.
Once upon a time MS would make their on-going software releases always ever more power hungry, necessitating buying better-new equipment to support each new version. MS have grown out of that phase (only by a little bit). Seems the kiddies at chrome central are just reaching their puberty and it's them that get turned on by the need for speed and power.
Firefox works everywhere WITH add-ons that make a browser truly useful,
chrome: mega-fails and sucks (in both senses of 'suck'),
edge: Answer: "who the f* knows", Question "WTF is edge supposed to be?",
and safari: - left the room how many years ago? (Just behind Elvis from memory.)
Sin tack ear lol
Pressing the "Any" key may be continuate
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Chrome has cooler icons. 'Nuff said. 
Jeremy Falcon
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 FF is going south with each upgrade but Chrome is a no-no for me - I multitab and multitask a lot and have a meager 4GB of RAM.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Firefox with ~100 tabs open: ~2G RAM, stays steady. Even with all of them playing flash animations.
Chrome with same tabs: Out of memory error within 5 seconds.
IE/Edge: Completely random results. Sometimes crashes with seemingly random errors, sometimes works. Not a surprise, really.
So there.
(I have 24G RAM, and this was with the 64-Bit version of Chrome. It actually caused Windows 8.1 to BSOD with an interrupt error)
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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So right now tow kinds of answers:
- The ones who knew would say "How could you not know that ?"
- The ones who did not know would go like "Great, thanks for sharing !"
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I used to be able to right-click the system tray icon and select "Connect". Done. Always reliable, super quick.
Then they made it so you
1. Click the network icon
2. Select the VPN
3. Wait for the VPN settings dialog and select the VPN again
4. Click the "Connect" button.
but if I'm already VPNd into a different network then I need to
3.5 Select the current VPN
3.6 Click Disconnect
As bad a UI regression as I've seen. (oh, hang on, the Start menu was the worst - forgot)
Now after the Anniversary update I do all that except
2.5 Wait for the general settings dialog morph into the VPN settings dialog
and
3.51 Yell when nothing comes up. VPN says "Connected", I click, nothing. So I close the dialog and go back to 1 and then it works.
ARGGHHH
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Tim Deveaux wrote: Cortana
I just bought a new laptop with win10 on it, and this lame sh*t appeared. Never since the f***ing paper clip in office have I felt like punching someone, very hard.
Needless to say I soon reparationed and installed win7.
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You could just have disabled Cortana, but I suspect you have other issues with Windows 10.
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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SoMad wrote: You could just have disabled Cortana
I just disabled the entire OS.
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I find Cortana really useful for launching apps, but only because I can't for the life of me work out how to use the start menu.
Other than that, as I hate Bing and Edge it's a waste of time.
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Wastedtalent wrote: work out how to use the start menu.
Right click it and you get the old windows start menu.
And thats all it is. The entire change from windows 7, the utter disaster of no start menu, and finding replacement shells in windows 8, and on to windows 10.
They couldnt of course just put it back, that would be admitting defeat, so they changed a left click to a right click... what a joke.
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You mean 'how can Microsoft break something that worked OK'?
Look what happened to XP when they made it into Vista, then win7. (And why does the windows 8.1 device manager behave just like XPs? How much other XP code did they revert to.....?)
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Recommended for your mental sanity: the glacial ring (I've just upgraded from XP to 7)
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Thats a mistake. If the software you need today to use the internet could run on XP I would still use it.
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I really wish they would revert to the XP functionality for searching for files on your computer using Windows Explorer. Even with indexing on and tweaked, there are times where you just cannot find the files you are looking for even though that worked in Windows XP.
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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SoMad wrote: I really wish they would revert to the XP functionality for searching for files on your computer using Windows Explorer
Yep, they broke that completely, replacing it with that crappy 'content:' argument, which never f***ing works anyway.
Not to mention the sh*tty networking on windows 7, private, home and network! The number of times when I reboot and lose my network I have to jiggle around with this crap to get it to work! And then the 'opening a folder in explorer and it takes 20 seconds to find a few files'. Just WTF did they screw up there?
And the footprint of the OS compared to XP. 90 MB compared to over a gig. Not to mention junk like defender, smartfetch and the other 'we know better than you do' crap they load it with.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: we know better than you do
Windows is a Mum and Dad consumer OS. In most cases, the OS does no better.
It's tiring dealing with a relative's PC that's infected with everything because they click "yes".
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Unfortunately all the changes MSFT made didnt stop mum and dad clicking yes....
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Chris Maunder wrote: In most cases, the OS does no better.
Does no better than what? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I wrote my own search program and disabled the indexing service. To musch overhead.
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yeah, makes sense.
I also replace the win7 calculator with the XP one, its better.
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I have seen so many views and opinions that I just can't make up my mind or form an opinion on them.
Although, wondering if the curved ones will go the same way as 3DTV and slowly die away.
I've got my eye on a new one, and get the feeling that curved are still being pushed hard by the manufacturers, but when I look at them in the flesh, not convinced that for any normal setup, ie. where you have living room chairs at multiple viewing angles it makes any sense. yes, if you are sitting straight on at the right viewing distance then I can see some potential viewing benefit, but on the whole, it just doesn't appear to look right if you are sitting off to the side even slightly.
I have tried in the shops picturing where the various chairs in the living room are relative to where the tv would be located, and flat just feels the right choice. I'm also having to take into account, if I get kicked out of Qatar next year, where is the telly likely to go in any future abode, or back home in the UK house!
Has anyone here bought a curved, and then wish they hadn't after real world use?
Other than that...discuss....
For info, I'm only considering Samsung, as they are my brand of choice at the moment*, and the models I've been exploring are;
88KS9800 78KS9500 78KS9000 all SUHD, HDR, QDot, Curved and 75KS8000 which is the flat equivalent of this range. And from the previous range, 78JU7500 (curved) 85/75JU7000 (Flat) both UHD 4K 3D and the 75JU6400 Flat UHD 4K.
In the uk I have a 63 Flat LED Sammy (can't remember the model number) and over here in Qatar have 2 x 46" Sammy's and happy with the smart hubs play nicely with the vpn link, and the remotes are interchangeable when the kids lose them!
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