For richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health…you need your browser, and your browser needs you. We lead you to the alter.
You take a browser out on the Web, hit some cool sites, knock back a couple of emails…and then what?
Just when you think you’re hitting it off, making a good impression, might be in with a chance here, mate… it jumps into a blue taxi and vanishes into the night. No happy ever after for you my friend, you’re going home alone.
Browsers can be heartlessly cruel. They promise you the World Wide Web, then deliver you to Wynberg Not Found. They reveal a bit of an image here, and a hint of a sound file there, but will they go the whole multimedia way? Not until you’ve wined them and dined them and showered them with plug-ins, and by then you can’t remember what you wanted. Soon you’re staying at home with the telly, hurling your ready meal across the room every time some over dressed actor gets full screen, full motion video. Instantly. At a single click. Without installing… oh, never mind.
Enough. It doesn’t have to be like that. You and your browser can be a team. You can have an emotionally fulfilling relationship based on mutual support and respect for your inner children. Or failing that, you can experience great sites.
Here’s How It’s Done
Considering that Internet Explorer is the most widely used browser we take a look at what you need to do to court this beautiful, sleek and all-encompassing browser.
Internet explorer is installed by default in Windows 2000/XP/Vista. Internet Explorer likes 4 things; a meaty processor, big RAM, a large hard disk and a fast modem. All the personality in the world won’t help if you fall short in the silicon department, although a fat wallet might help because you can afford to upgrade, but don’t leave it too long, the technological clock is ticking.
There are two theories of upgrading. Some people will tell you to mess with your motherboard, tweak the Registry, compress your hard disk and download the latest drivers. All these things can make a difference, but they aren’t going to turn you into the Charles Atlas of computing. Browsers know when you’re faking and they’d rather have the real thing. A PIII 800 with 512MB of RAM and a 40gig HDD gets you through the door; double all the numbers for a seat at the bar. Fast downloads are the ginseng of life, so trash that 56k Modem and get real with broadband.
Now that you’ve upgraded to 1000MB RAM, 2GIG CPU power or a more powerful twin barreled carburetor, 80GIG or greater HDD, and a powerful ADSL or 3G with straight inline 6 cylinders, your browser is revving to go.
In the movies you can collide with a browser in the lobby, help them into the lift, and by the 7th floor you’re engaged. In real life, you go bright red and take the stairs. It takes time to get to know a browser, and the first few dates won’t go as smoothly as you like.
For starters, if it’s the first time you’re on a date, if you’re using Internet Explorer, you need a couple of plug-ins. But before you download any plug-ins, Internet Explorer needs to be configured for optimum use. Open Internet Explorer and click on Tools in the top menu bar. Click Internet Options. Type in the default website that IE should open (usually your favorite website). Days to keep pages in history must be set to around 15. Click privacy and accept all cookies. Click apply. Click OK. Now click on View – Toolbars – Customize. Text Options must be set to ‘No Text Labels’ and select ‘Small Icons’ below. Click Close.
Now you can proceed to install additional plug-ins. Head over to Google and do a search for ‘Install adobe Flash Player’. Click to the adobe site and install the flash player. Install ‘Shockwave’. Also install ‘Adobe Acrobat Reader’. Now do a search for ‘Java’ from Sun Microsystems and install the free Java for Windows. Install the ‘Google Toolbar’ so that it’s easier to search and also to block annoying pop-up windows. These are the most important plug-ins to enable Internet Explorer to work efficiently and display almost all the content you will find on a webpage.
Restart your computer, run a good Registry Mechanic program to optimize your Registry and iron out any problems. That’s it. You now have a browser with muscles… and power to match. Go places, see things. Have wild and wonderful adventures. Receive record phone bills. It’s only money after all.
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Diamonds are forever, but browsers only last a few months. If you love it, upgrade it.
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How can i fix this problem where links from web browsers lead to different sites than there supposed to?I recently began having problems when using all web browsers. It occurs using internet explorer and safari, and all others I could try. Basically, when I type in a word and click on the link, it leads to different sites, than its supposed to. I don't know how fix this. Let me know, thanks
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February 13th, 2009 on 7:35 am
firefox hands down!
February 13th, 2009 on 8:09 am
February 13th, 2009 on 8:12 am
Use the Import/Export features.
February 13th, 2009 on 8:26 am
let me just say, i feel your pain, as do millions of other people out there…
coding a site that will look good on all the different browsers is tricky business. as you mentioned, different versions of IE will display things differently from each other, and differently than FF. it really depends on what you're trying to put on the site. IE and FF render styles from CSS differently, unfortunately. however, you can do conditional styles…which ease your pain a little bit.
if you make a style sheet for each browser, one for IE, one for FF, you can by default load the stylesheet that works well with FF, but you can override it with something like this:
<!–[if IE]>
load your style sheet
<![endif]–>
can you post anything specific you're trying to put on the site?
February 13th, 2009 on 8:59 am
the shit firefox
February 13th, 2009 on 11:03 am
opera
February 13th, 2009 on 8:47 pm
When you make a request to a Web browser, it responds with a file.
At the very beginning of its response is a header. The header is a few lines of text that tells the Web browser all sorts of things about the file being sent back. Among the things sent back is the content type.
Content-type tells the browser what the Web server thinks the file is. The browser uses the content-type response to determine how it will handle the file: Try to display it, ask another program to open it, prompt you to save it to your disk drive, etc.
What the content-type line sent by a server contains depends on how the server is set up. Most Web servers have a "default" content-type list; what is sent is usually dependent on the file name / extension, but not always. Also, the Web server's admin can change what content-types are sent for specific file types.
You can also forge content-type information from a programming standpoint. It is very common, for example, for Web programmers to "dynamically" create data files (such as comma-delimited files), or even images, on the server, and then feed a person's Web browser a content-type specific to that file, overriding what the Web server would have sent.
A previous answerer stated the server sends a MIME type. That's not correct.
MIME is a methodology for e-mail programs to handle attachments. Both MIME and HTTP 1.1 have Content-type attributes, and they use the same format. They are very closely interrelated, but not the same thing.
February 14th, 2009 on 2:06 am
This is a HUGE subject, far too big to deal with here. The first thing that you should do, if you are serious about making your web site as accessible as possible, is to download the major browsers so that you can check your design in each one. So you want IE (unfortunately, you can't have IE 6 & 7 on the same computer!), Firefox, Netscape and perhaps Opera. If you can get it right in these, you will satisfy the vast majority of people.
The secret to compatibility is to make your pages compliant with the standards laid down by the w3c. The majority of browsers work to those standards. In the past, it was necessary to include a number of "tweaks" on the page to allow for the peculiarities of some browsers (particularly earlier versions of IE) but this is becoming less the case.
As well as checking your pages yourself, there is a validator available for your HTML through the w3 web site – first link below.
The second link takes you to a series of tutorials which I'm sure you will find helpful.
Incidentally, it's not just browsers that you have to satisfy. Users have a wide range of screen resolution and, unless you are careful, you may find that a page which looks perfect on one PC will break up on a smaller screen.
Really, it's a minefield – good luck!
February 14th, 2009 on 4:16 am
i use firefox
February 14th, 2009 on 2:37 pm
browsershots as said above is ok, but has limitations.
Personally, I have the latest issues of IE, FF, Opera, Chrome and Safari. These cover 99.5% of ww users: enough for me…
I test my sites on each of them, at different resolutions.
February 14th, 2009 on 6:08 pm
Google chrome
February 14th, 2009 on 7:10 pm
Safari owns
February 15th, 2009 on 8:10 am
I assume you mean without registry editing
Open IE, Tools, Internet Options, Programs Tab, Click "Make Default"
February 15th, 2009 on 2:39 pm
FireFox is the best
February 15th, 2009 on 9:03 pm
google chrome (statisticly the fastest, but no security)
Mozilla Firefox (the best and also very fast)
Internet Explorer ( the worst)
Opera (decent but not great)
Apple Safari ( very fast, not very popular except with MAC users)
There are a few other ones too but are not even worth mentioning
February 15th, 2009 on 9:45 pm
Firefox took about 200,000 meg of ram from my pc
February 16th, 2009 on 1:11 pm
i use lunascape
February 16th, 2009 on 3:23 pm
Unfortunately, no. That is, not without jailbreaking your phone first. The iPhone's "security features" give applications limited freedom to save to the file system and give you limited freedom to access files saved, and therefore Safari doesn't support it.