Web Browser Maxthon

On 1/3/2014 6:31 PM, BillW50 wrote:
On 1/3/2014 10:59 AM, Alias wrote:
On 1/3/2014 5:08 PM, BillW50 wrote:
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On 1/2/2014 9:50 PM, BillW50 wrote:
For example for me to go to youtube.com I just type yt and enter

With FF, you type yo. For Yahoo, you type ya. Course, you're
probably using an old version of FF.

Naw that isn't what I am talking about. All browsers including
Maxthon will show a list of possible websites that match while you
are typing in the URL (auto complete). What Maxthon v3 adds is URL
Alias. And there isn't any list of URL that are possible matches.
As it allows you to rename any website to whatever name you want.
This is far faster than any auto complete to do.

Sounds terrible.

Yes, renaming especially those mile long URLs to tiny alias is just
awful! ROTFL

No, what I mean is you may get what you don't want.

How in the world would that happen?

You weren't expected to understand and you met all expectations. I
prefer to choose from a drop down than rely on a browser to guess where
I want to go.

There is no guessing where you want to go. It goes where you told it to go.

Whatever.


And yes, I also do use Firefox v26. And frankly it isn't much
different than v4. I guess Mozilla wants to prove they can never
get it right and just keeps cranking out version after version. And
still, it is a pretty featureless browser. And Firefox is still
flaky if you open up too many tabs. Maybe it will get better once
v1001 is released.

Is that your *professional* opinion?

Naw, just Google search for browser wars and you get a lot of experts
comparing browsers to each other. And you will find lots of
complaints with Firefox and the many tab freeze up gripe is a very
common one.

Not here.

I know, your world is different than the rest of us.

Yeah, I update and you don't.

Sure I do.

Not what you've posted before.


You advise people to not update and I don't.

I never tell people not to update.

I have seen you tell people not to update.


For crying out loud, you're still on XP SP2 and, what's worse,
you advise folks to do the same.

No I am not. I am on Windows 8 right now while you are using the older
outdated Windows 7. Nor do I advise people to use XP SP2. Why would I do
that when I am running Windows 8 on three different machines for?


Bill
Motion Computing LE1700 Tablet ('09 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2
Centrino Core2 Duo L7400 1.5GHz - 2GB RAM
Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 SP2 ------------

Win8 is nor more an update to Win7 than Vista was to XP. Man, you're
uninformed.

--
Alias

On 1/3/2014 11:40 AM, Alias wrote:
On 1/3/2014 6:31 PM, BillW50 wrote:
On 1/3/2014 10:59 AM, Alias wrote:
On 1/3/2014 5:08 PM, BillW50 wrote:
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Alias typed:
On 1/3/2014 2:11 PM, BillW50 wrote:
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Alias typed:
On 1/3/2014 11:16 AM, BillW50 wrote:
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Alias typed:
On 1/2/2014 9:50 PM, BillW50 wrote:
For example for me to go to youtube.com I just type yt and enter

With FF, you type yo. For Yahoo, you type ya. Course, you're
probably using an old version of FF.

Naw that isn't what I am talking about. All browsers including
Maxthon will show a list of possible websites that match while you
are typing in the URL (auto complete). What Maxthon v3 adds is URL
Alias. And there isn't any list of URL that are possible matches.
As it allows you to rename any website to whatever name you want.
This is far faster than any auto complete to do.

Sounds terrible.

Yes, renaming especially those mile long URLs to tiny alias is just
awful! ROTFL

No, what I mean is you may get what you don't want.

How in the world would that happen?

You weren't expected to understand and you met all expectations. I
prefer to choose from a drop down than rely on a browser to guess where
I want to go.

There is no guessing where you want to go. It goes where you told it
to go.

Whatever.

It's the truth. As whatever alias is set for a given URL, that is where
it goes to. No guesswork at all.

And yes, I also do use Firefox v26. And frankly it isn't much
different than v4. I guess Mozilla wants to prove they can never
get it right and just keeps cranking out version after version. And
still, it is a pretty featureless browser. And Firefox is still
flaky if you open up too many tabs. Maybe it will get better once
v1001 is released.

Is that your *professional* opinion?

Naw, just Google search for browser wars and you get a lot of experts
comparing browsers to each other. And you will find lots of
complaints with Firefox and the many tab freeze up gripe is a very
common one.

Not here.

I know, your world is different than the rest of us.

Yeah, I update and you don't.

Sure I do.

Not what you've posted before.

I have posted that some of my computers cannot be updated like my EeePC
701 netbooks with XP SP2 installed on them. As SP3 won't fit on them.
And before them and prior to 2008, all of my computers were always updated.

And I figured like most people that I would be constantly restoring this
machine from an earlier backup since it should be prone to malware
without the latest updates. But that never happened and now it is six
years later and it still is malware free. And yes, the AV is always up
to date just like all of my computers are.

You advise people to not update and I don't.

I never tell people not to update.

I have seen you tell people not to update.

No you haven't. I have told the same story since 2008 zillions of times
and you still get it wrong every time.

For crying out loud, you're still on XP SP2 and, what's worse,
you advise folks to do the same.

No I am not. I am on Windows 8 right now while you are using the older
outdated Windows 7. Nor do I advise people to use XP SP2. Why would I do
that when I am running Windows 8 on three different machines for?

Bill
Motion Computing LE1700 Tablet ('09 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2
Centrino Core2 Duo L7400 1.5GHz - 2GB RAM
Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 SP2 ------------

Win8 is nor more an update to Win7 than Vista was to XP. Man, you're
uninformed.

You can't even copy and paste correctly... Look again!

"Centrino Core2 Duo T7400 2.16 GHz - 4GB - Windows 8 Pro w/Media Center"

And you said I was still on XP SP2 and no, not currently! I don't find
one OS to do it all and I never have. I always had machines with
different OS on them. But that is why you can never be sure what OS I am
on now at the moment. And you guessed XP SP2 and you had guessed wrong,
so deal with it.

And a search here using "update Windows 7 to Windows 8" shows 246
million hits. So your opinion disagrees with hundreds of millions of
others. But this isn't the first time, now is it? Naw it is just a
reoccurring theme of yours.

--
Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Thunderbird v12
Centrino Core2 Duo T7400 2.16 GHz - 4GB - Windows 8 Pro w/Media Center

BillW50 wrote:
On 1/3/2014 10:59 AM, Alias wrote:
On 1/3/2014 5:08 PM, BillW50 wrote:
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Alias typed:
On 1/3/2014 2:11 PM, BillW50 wrote:
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Alias typed:
On 1/3/2014 11:16 AM, BillW50 wrote:
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Alias typed:
On 1/2/2014 9:50 PM, BillW50 wrote:
For example for me to go to youtube.com I just type yt and enter

With FF, you type yo. For Yahoo, you type ya. Course, you're
probably using an old version of FF.

Naw that isn't what I am talking about. All browsers including
Maxthon will show a list of possible websites that match while you
are typing in the URL (auto complete). What Maxthon v3 adds is URL
Alias. And there isn't any list of URL that are possible matches.
As it allows you to rename any website to whatever name you want.
This is far faster than any auto complete to do.

Sounds terrible.

Yes, renaming especially those mile long URLs to tiny alias is just
awful! ROTFL

No, what I mean is you may get what you don't want.

How in the world would that happen?

You weren't expected to understand and you met all expectations. I
prefer to choose from a drop down than rely on a browser to guess where
I want to go.

There is no guessing where you want to go. It goes where you told it to
go.

And yes, I also do use Firefox v26. And frankly it isn't much
different than v4. I guess Mozilla wants to prove they can never
get it right and just keeps cranking out version after version. And
still, it is a pretty featureless browser. And Firefox is still
flaky if you open up too many tabs. Maybe it will get better once
v1001 is released.

Is that your *professional* opinion?

Naw, just Google search for browser wars and you get a lot of experts
comparing browsers to each other. And you will find lots of
complaints with Firefox and the many tab freeze up gripe is a very
common one.

Not here.

I know, your world is different than the rest of us.

Yeah, I update and you don't.

Sure I do.

You advise people to not update and I don't.

I never tell people not to update.

For crying out loud, you're still on XP SP2 and, what's worse,
you advise folks to do the same.

No I am not. I am on Windows 8 right now while you are using the older
outdated Windows 7. Nor do I advise people to use XP SP2. Why would I do
that when I am running Windows 8 on three different machines for?

I guess I still don't understand why you (or anyone, for that matter) would
want to update to Windows 8, unless the computer just came that way and
there was no other option, or you were using a tablet and wanted that tiling
feature of Win8, or you needed to run some new software or other
applications that required Win8. I could almost say the same thing about
Windows 7, for that matter. :-)

On 1/03/2014, Char Jackson posted:
On Fri, 03 Jan 2014 14:17:49 +0100, Alias
wrote:

On 1/3/2014 2:11 PM, BillW50 wrote:
In ,

Naw, just Google search for browser wars and you get a lot of
experts comparing browsers to each other. And you will find lots of
complaints with Firefox and the many tab freeze up gripe is a very
common one.


Not here.

Freeze up? Not here, either, but I did see some sluggishness recently
when I had 261 tabs open, according to Session Manager. (Not a typo.)
I usually seem to have only 120-150 tabs open, which doesn't cause
any issues except some rather large RAM usage. I suspect the people
reporting freeze ups are doing things that I'm not.

I haven't had any freeze-ups in FF either, but I never open more than
26.1 tabs :-)

120-150 is very impressive; 261 is fantastical.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On 1/3/2014 7:45 PM, BillW50 wrote:
On 1/3/2014 11:40 AM, Alias wrote:
On 1/3/2014 6:31 PM, BillW50 wrote:
On 1/3/2014 10:59 AM, Alias wrote:
On 1/3/2014 5:08 PM, BillW50 wrote:
In ,
Alias typed:
On 1/3/2014 2:11 PM, BillW50 wrote:
In ,
Alias typed:
On 1/3/2014 11:16 AM, BillW50 wrote:
In ,
Alias typed:
On 1/2/2014 9:50 PM, BillW50 wrote:
For example for me to go to youtube.com I just type yt and enter

With FF, you type yo. For Yahoo, you type ya. Course, you're
probably using an old version of FF.

Naw that isn't what I am talking about. All browsers including
Maxthon will show a list of possible websites that match while you
are typing in the URL (auto complete). What Maxthon v3 adds is URL
Alias. And there isn't any list of URL that are possible matches.
As it allows you to rename any website to whatever name you want.
This is far faster than any auto complete to do.

Sounds terrible.

Yes, renaming especially those mile long URLs to tiny alias is just
awful! ROTFL

No, what I mean is you may get what you don't want.

How in the world would that happen?

You weren't expected to understand and you met all expectations. I
prefer to choose from a drop down than rely on a browser to guess where
I want to go.

There is no guessing where you want to go. It goes where you told it
to go.

Whatever.

It's the truth. As whatever alias is set for a given URL, that is where
it goes to. No guesswork at all.

And yes, I also do use Firefox v26. And frankly it isn't much
different than v4. I guess Mozilla wants to prove they can never
get it right and just keeps cranking out version after version.
And
still, it is a pretty featureless browser. And Firefox is still
flaky if you open up too many tabs. Maybe it will get better once
v1001 is released.

Is that your *professional* opinion?

Naw, just Google search for browser wars and you get a lot of
experts
comparing browsers to each other. And you will find lots of
complaints with Firefox and the many tab freeze up gripe is a very
common one.

Not here.

I know, your world is different than the rest of us.

Yeah, I update and you don't.

Sure I do.

Not what you've posted before.

I have posted that some of my computers cannot be updated like my EeePC
701 netbooks with XP SP2 installed on them. As SP3 won't fit on them.
And before them and prior to 2008, all of my computers were always updated.

And I figured like most people that I would be constantly restoring this
machine from an earlier backup since it should be prone to malware
without the latest updates. But that never happened and now it is six
years later and it still is malware free. And yes, the AV is always up
to date just like all of my computers are.

You advise people to not update and I don't.

I never tell people not to update.

I have seen you tell people not to update.

No you haven't. I have told the same story since 2008 zillions of times
and you still get it wrong every time.

For crying out loud, you're still on XP SP2 and, what's worse,
you advise folks to do the same.

No I am not. I am on Windows 8 right now while you are using the older
outdated Windows 7. Nor do I advise people to use XP SP2. Why would I do
that when I am running Windows 8 on three different machines for?

Bill
Motion Computing LE1700 Tablet ('09 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2
Centrino Core2 Duo L7400 1.5GHz - 2GB RAM
Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 SP2 ------------

Win8 is nor more an update to Win7 than Vista was to XP. Man, you're
uninformed.

You can't even copy and paste correctly... Look again!

"Centrino Core2 Duo T7400 2.16 GHz - 4GB - Windows 8 Pro w/Media Center"

It didn't come from that post but another of yours in a different thread.


And you said I was still on XP SP2 and no, not currently!

No, not currently. Now your using Win8 and haven't updated to 8.1.

I don't find
one OS to do it all and I never have. I always had machines with
different OS on them. But that is why you can never be sure what OS I am
on now at the moment. And you guessed XP SP2 and you had guessed wrong,
so deal with it.

I didn't guess ****.


And a search here using "update Windows 7 to Windows 8" shows 246
million hits. So your opinion disagrees with hundreds of millions of
others. But this isn't the first time, now is it? Naw it is just a
reoccurring theme of yours.


http://www.computerworld.com/common/...chart_2014.jpg

Search result numbers mean jack ****.

--
Alias

On Fri, 03 Jan 2014 12:02:46 -0800, Gene E. Bloch
wrote:

On 1/03/2014, Char Jackson posted:
On Fri, 03 Jan 2014 14:17:49 +0100, Alias
wrote:

On 1/3/2014 2:11 PM, BillW50 wrote:
In ,

Naw, just Google search for browser wars and you get a lot of
experts comparing browsers to each other. And you will find lots of
complaints with Firefox and the many tab freeze up gripe is a very
common one.


Not here.

Freeze up? Not here, either, but I did see some sluggishness recently
when I had 261 tabs open, according to Session Manager. (Not a typo.)
I usually seem to have only 120-150 tabs open, which doesn't cause
any issues except some rather large RAM usage. I suspect the people
reporting freeze ups are doing things that I'm not.

I haven't had any freeze-ups in FF either, but I never open more than
26.1 tabs :-)

120-150 is very impressive; 261 is fantastical.


Shouldn't be a surprise. This is the guy with 45TB of HD space. He
likes big numbers. ;-)


I have 11 tabs open at the moment (in Maxthon). That's a fairly
typical number for me, and occasionally, I've probably gone as high as
20 or so. I can't image having as many as 120 open. If I did, I'd
never remember what was open.

On 1/03/2014, Ken Blake posted:
On Fri, 03 Jan 2014 12:02:46 -0800, Gene E. Bloch
wrote:

On 1/03/2014, Char Jackson posted:
On Fri, 03 Jan 2014 14:17:49 +0100, Alias
wrote:
On 1/3/2014 2:11 PM, BillW50 wrote:
In ,

Naw, just Google search for browser wars and you get a lot of
experts comparing browsers to each other. And you will find lots
of complaints with Firefox and the many tab freeze up gripe is a
very common one.


Not here.

Freeze up? Not here, either, but I did see some sluggishness
recently when I had 261 tabs open, according to Session Manager.
(Not a typo.) I usually seem to have only 120-150 tabs open, which
doesn't cause any issues except some rather large RAM usage. I
suspect the people reporting freeze ups are doing things that I'm
not.

I haven't had any freeze-ups in FF either, but I never open more
than 26.1 tabs :-)

120-150 is very impressive; 261 is fantastical.


Shouldn't be a surprise. This is the guy with 45TB of HD space. He
likes big numbers. ;-)


I have 11 tabs open at the moment (in Maxthon). That's a fairly
typical number for me, and occasionally, I've probably gone as high
as 20 or so. I can't image having as many as 120 open. If I did, I'd
never remember what was open.

I have enough trouble with a dozen or so :-)

Thank heavens for the Showcase add-in.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On 1/3/2014 1:50 PM, Bill in Co wrote:
BillW50 wrote:
No I am not. I am on Windows 8 right now while you are using the older
outdated Windows 7. Nor do I advise people to use XP SP2. Why would I do
that when I am running Windows 8 on three different machines for?

I guess I still don't understand why you (or anyone, for that matter) would
want to update to Windows 8, unless the computer just came that way and
there was no other option, or you were using a tablet and wanted that tiling
feature of Win8, or you needed to run some new software or other
applications that required Win8. I could almost say the same thing about
Windows 7, for that matter. :-)

I don't mind Windows 8, 7, or even XP. Most of the time I don't care
which one I am currently on. Much like people who drives different
vehicles all of the time. Yes I do that all of the time too. It's really
no big deal.

What got me interested in Windows 8 was downloading the beta for free.
That is how I got interested in Windows 7 back in 2009 as well. And
while I had tablets for years, I never had any Windows tablets. Frankly
before Windows 8, it didn't sound like Windows tablets were much fun to
use anyway.

Well in late 2012, I decided I wasn't going to be late to the Windows
tablet party. And while you could easily find XP and Windows 7 tablets
easy enough, there was virtual no Windows 8 tablets yet. So I bought XP
and Windows 7 tablets (I ignored Vista tablets) and started to play
around with them. I even found two Windows 3.1 tablets manufactured back
in '93 and played around with them too.

And what I learned if you know how to use one Windows tablet edition,
you pretty much knew how to use the rest of them. The idea is the same
from Windows 3.1 Pen Edition all the way to Windows 7 (which all Windows
7 has tablet support built in). Before that, you needed a special
edition of Windows to support tablets. Except for Vista Business Edition
which also had tablet support built in.

Now with Windows 8, a huge change with tablet support had taken place.
What you knew before with previous Windows tablet support all changed
and for the better IMHO.

Now I hear all of the time that Windows 8 is great for tablets (which I
agree with), but terrible for desktops. I don't understand the latter at
all. As this Windows 8 I am on right now is a docked laptop using the
desktop monitor, keyboard and mouse. So it is being used just like your
average Windows desktop. Same is true of my other two Windows 8 tablets
when they are docked. I am totally comfortable doing any navigating on
the desktop or on the Metro side with just the mouse and keyboard. And
while undocking a Windows 8 tablet, also very comfortable doing the same
with the touch screen.

But I do totally get why some want to stick with just XP, Windows 7, or
whatever. But me, I need to feel comfortable no matter what kind of OS
or vehicle I am driving at the time. ;-)

--
Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Thunderbird v12
Centrino Core2 Duo T7400 2.16 GHz - 4GB - Windows 8 Pro w/Media Center

On 1/3/2014 2:02 PM, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On 1/03/2014, Char Jackson posted:
On Fri, 03 Jan 2014 14:17:49 +0100, Alias
wrote:

On 1/3/2014 2:11 PM, BillW50 wrote:
In ,

Naw, just Google search for browser wars and you get a lot of
experts comparing browsers to each other. And you will find lots of
complaints with Firefox and the many tab freeze up gripe is a very
common one.


Not here.

Freeze up? Not here, either, but I did see some sluggishness recently
when I had 261 tabs open, according to Session Manager. (Not a typo.)
I usually seem to have only 120-150 tabs open, which doesn't cause any
issues except some rather large RAM usage. I suspect the people
reporting freeze ups are doing things that I'm not.

I haven't had any freeze-ups in FF either, but I never open more than
26.1 tabs :-)

120-150 is very impressive; 261 is fantastical.

I think the number of tabs is a bit misleading for testing. As each tab
could have virtually nothing very taxing, or each one could be very
taxing. For example, most all text based webpages tax the system is very
little and it barely even amounts to anything. So open up a couple of
hundred of those and the system might not even sense any load at all.
But open up a couple of hundred youtube videos at one time, your
bandwidth is maxed out, flash is sucking up every ounce of CPU power and
graphic power the machine can muster. And the poor browser has to act as
the traffic cop to keep everything from collapsing. And when it is time
for the tough to get going, Firefox has been known to freeze right up.

Heck this Thunderbird (also from Mozilla) froze up on me twice while I
was typing the above paragraph (once right here and dropped the ph in
paragraph). Mozilla products I find very annoying. Some like them
though. I think if they actually used something else, they probably
won't like them so much (made it through the rest of the typing without
freezing ;-). Oops, it did it through "through". :-(

--
Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Thunderbird v12
Centrino Core2 Duo T7400 2.16 GHz - 4GB - Windows 8 Pro w/Media Center

On 1/3/2014 2:26 PM, Alias wrote:
On 1/3/2014 7:45 PM, BillW50 wrote:
On 1/3/2014 11:40 AM, Alias wrote:
On 1/3/2014 6:31 PM, BillW50 wrote:
On 1/3/2014 10:59 AM, Alias wrote:
On 1/3/2014 5:08 PM, BillW50 wrote:
In ,
Alias typed:
On 1/3/2014 2:11 PM, BillW50 wrote:
In ,
Alias typed:
On 1/3/2014 11:16 AM, BillW50 wrote:
In ,
Alias typed:
On 1/2/2014 9:50 PM, BillW50 wrote:
For example for me to go to youtube.com I just type yt and
enter

With FF, you type yo. For Yahoo, you type ya. Course, you're
probably using an old version of FF.

Naw that isn't what I am talking about. All browsers including
Maxthon will show a list of possible websites that match while
you
are typing in the URL (auto complete). What Maxthon v3 adds is
URL
Alias. And there isn't any list of URL that are possible matches.
As it allows you to rename any website to whatever name you want.
This is far faster than any auto complete to do.

Sounds terrible.

Yes, renaming especially those mile long URLs to tiny alias is just
awful! ROTFL

No, what I mean is you may get what you don't want.

How in the world would that happen?

You weren't expected to understand and you met all expectations. I
prefer to choose from a drop down than rely on a browser to guess
where
I want to go.

There is no guessing where you want to go. It goes where you told it
to go.

Whatever.

It's the truth. As whatever alias is set for a given URL, that is where
it goes to. No guesswork at all.

And yes, I also do use Firefox v26. And frankly it isn't much
different than v4. I guess Mozilla wants to prove they can never
get it right and just keeps cranking out version after version.
And
still, it is a pretty featureless browser. And Firefox is still
flaky if you open up too many tabs. Maybe it will get better once
v1001 is released.

Is that your *professional* opinion?

Naw, just Google search for browser wars and you get a lot of
experts
comparing browsers to each other. And you will find lots of
complaints with Firefox and the many tab freeze up gripe is a very
common one.

Not here.

I know, your world is different than the rest of us.

Yeah, I update and you don't.

Sure I do.

Not what you've posted before.

I have posted that some of my computers cannot be updated like my EeePC
701 netbooks with XP SP2 installed on them. As SP3 won't fit on them.
And before them and prior to 2008, all of my computers were always
updated.

And I figured like most people that I would be constantly restoring this
machine from an earlier backup since it should be prone to malware
without the latest updates. But that never happened and now it is six
years later and it still is malware free. And yes, the AV is always up
to date just like all of my computers are.

You advise people to not update and I don't.

I never tell people not to update.

I have seen you tell people not to update.

No you haven't. I have told the same story since 2008 zillions of times
and you still get it wrong every time.

For crying out loud, you're still on XP SP2 and, what's worse,
you advise folks to do the same.

No I am not. I am on Windows 8 right now while you are using the older
outdated Windows 7. Nor do I advise people to use XP SP2. Why would
I do
that when I am running Windows 8 on three different machines for?

Bill
Motion Computing LE1700 Tablet ('09 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2
Centrino Core2 Duo L7400 1.5GHz - 2GB RAM
Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 SP2 ------------

Win8 is nor more an update to Win7 than Vista was to XP. Man, you're
uninformed.

You can't even copy and paste correctly... Look again!

"Centrino Core2 Duo T7400 2.16 GHz - 4GB - Windows 8 Pro w/Media Center"

It didn't come from that post but another of yours in a different thread.

So? I use many OS. You said I was stuck at XP SP2 and that wasn't true
at all. And you say you always update and your stuck at Windows 7, so
that isn't true either.

And you said I was still on XP SP2 and no, not currently!

No, not currently. Now your using Win8 and haven't updated to 8.1.

Yeah so? You haven't updated to Windows 8 yet and I did that a long time
ago. And I am not eager to be the first one to beta test a new build.
I'll let the gullible go first and test the waters. Heck how do you
think I managed all of these years and avoiding not having a single
machine with Vista on it. ;-)

I don't find
one OS to do it all and I never have. I always had machines with
different OS on them. But that is why you can never be sure what OS I am
on now at the moment. And you guessed XP SP2 and you had guessed wrong,
so deal with it.

I didn't guess ****.

Sure you did. You guessed that I was stuck at XP SP2 and you of all
people know that I have many different OS including Windows 8. But you
have to act like a fool anyway and open your big potty mouth.

And a search here using "update Windows 7 to Windows 8" shows 246
million hits. So your opinion disagrees with hundreds of millions of
others. But this isn't the first time, now is it? Naw it is just a
reoccurring theme of yours.

http://www.computerworld.com/common/...chart_2014.jpg

Search result numbers mean jack ****.

What do you mean? Yes in some circles, XP is still very popular. But who
doesn't know that? Anyway by NT build versions...

Vista is Windows NT build 6.0
Win7 is Windows NT build 6.1
Win8 is Windows NT build 6.2

And you are still stuck at 6.1. I guess you don't stay updated like you
claim. Go figure.

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Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Thunderbird v12
Centrino Core2 Duo T7400 2.16 GHz - 4GB - Windows 8 Pro w/Media Center

On 1/3/2014 11:49 PM, BillW50 wrote:

Vista is Windows NT build 6.0
Win7 is Windows NT build 6.1
Win8 is Windows NT build 6.2

And you are still stuck at 6.1. I guess you don't stay updated like you
claim. Go figure.


It figures you wouldn't know the difference between upgrading and
updating. I didn't get Vista and I won't get Win8.

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Alias

On Fri, 03 Jan 2014 12:02:46 -0800, Gene E. Bloch
wrote:

On 1/03/2014, Char Jackson posted:
On Fri, 03 Jan 2014 14:17:49 +0100, Alias
wrote:

On 1/3/2014 2:11 PM, BillW50 wrote:
In ,

Naw, just Google search for browser wars and you get a lot of
experts comparing browsers to each other. And you will find lots of
complaints with Firefox and the many tab freeze up gripe is a very
common one.


Not here.

Freeze up? Not here, either, but I did see some sluggishness recently
when I had 261 tabs open, according to Session Manager. (Not a typo.)
I usually seem to have only 120-150 tabs open, which doesn't cause
any issues except some rather large RAM usage. I suspect the people
reporting freeze ups are doing things that I'm not.

I haven't had any freeze-ups in FF either, but I never open more than
26.1 tabs :-)

120-150 is very impressive; 261 is fantastical.

Yes, very impressive in the same way that an old lady might have 132 cats.
;-)

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Char Jackson