mozilla firefox and site speed

Yes Firefox is the way to go, we have had it for several years,
never had any problems.

Hi David
I have just downloaded Mozilla Firefox as well and it works the way it used to for Internet Explorer. Now any task her is almost instantaneous
I have not changed anything with Norton's.

All the best to you and Michelle and have a great Christmas.

Cheers

Stephen

I had to download FF to be able to do BAS online to ATO.

Kids a few months back loaded Skype onto my office computer.

When i was trying to Bas a few weeks later I couldnt log onto the ATO site. ahh their site is down...i'll do later this arvo I thought...went on for a couple of days and was running out of time to lodge so a call to the ATO was placed.

You cant log onto to the ATO using IE if if you have Skype installed...and no one knows why....??? not even the IT gurus at ATO so the help desk says....the work around was to install FF or get rid of Skype

EO definitely loads faster than in IE...but cant notice the difference in some other sites such as ebay and trading post

G'day Nudie, I know that your version of Etax is commercial however, I have had skype running for a couple of years and I have been able to do my personal tax returns on line and I use IE.

I log on thru what they call the "business portal" which i think is very different to Etax

when ya taking me out to lunch? lol

whats that before i load it

Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them.

Have been using FireFox since David sort of 'recommended' it here on the forum.
Have some 'add ons' also installed, including the "add blocker" above, yes it does make a nice difference !!

Yes, it's now so simple to manipulate it to suit yourself and you have so many performance and visual options available.

Mainey . . .

Most people don't really have a choice....Windows comes pre-installed on most systems.

You seem to have a real Microsoft phobia :-)

Cheers
Glenn

It's more than a phobia I never use Windows unless it's running inside Linux in a virtual pc this way it's safe. I do all my banking on the Internet and would shudder at the thought of having to use Windows with all it's security issues, it's just not safe. I found that when using Windows every time I connected to the Internet it would download security updates for M$ or virus signatures which uses valuable mega bytes and the system kept getting slower and slower. Like I said before Linux is free you and can even get a free CD sent to you from Ubuntu Linux

To get a new tab It's File>New Tab. there are many add-ons in Firefox Tools>Add-ons then Search or Browse all Add-ons.
To save all the Tabs it's Tools>Options>Use current pages

One of the add-ons I use is : Toolbar Buttons. This gives you a whole range of buttons that you can drag on to your toolbar. One of the buttons I use is 'new tab', just click on it and it opens a new tab.
I also find the copy/paste buttons very useful.

Another add-on I find handy is : Tabs Open Relative. This will open new tabs to the immediate right of the current tab. I usually have between 20 and 50 tabs open at any one time, and it saves scrolling to the end of the tabs all the time to find the new tab you just opened.

Cheers
Glenn