Comments on: Disabling useless services for speeding up your computer – Modifications for the corporate computers http://blog.gurupanguji.com/2006/04/12/disabling-useless-services-for-speeding-up-your-computer-modifications-for-the-corporate-computers/ Thoughts, ramblings, rantings of Renganathan Ramamoorthy Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:06:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Guru Panguji http://blog.gurupanguji.com/2006/04/12/disabling-useless-services-for-speeding-up-your-computer-modifications-for-the-corporate-computers/#comment-302 Mon, 17 Apr 2006 05:57:07 +0000 http://gurupanguji.wordpress.com/2006/04/12/disabling-useless-services-for-speeding-up-your-computer-modifications-for-the-corporate-computers/#comment-302 Opera is good, no denying that. However, for the user who likes a good looking tabbed browser, Fx takes the cake. Agreed there are still many bugs, there are areas to improve!

But, as far as Fx is concerned, everything is so much simpler. Furthermore, the automatic detection of proxy present in the 1.5+ is a good thing, actually one of the best things that Fx has done in its fight with the other browsers.

The extensions that you can add to Fx is so much simpler in process than Opera. Also, somehow, at least to my eye, the Fx look and feel is comfy! :-D !

I know Browser and browser wars are present. I now have FX and IE 7.0 Beta 1 installed in my system. Still, Fx 1.5 works way better and gives a faster browsing feeling than any of the other browsers that I have tried and used.

Flock was k, but it sucks as compared to the Fx feel. Furthermore, the noveau concept of starred, tagged bookmarks, bombed in front of me, inspite of its innovativeness!

Flock was there for 2 then, i just took it off, as it was a bloody pain maintaing the bookmarks :-D !!

]]> By: sukhi http://blog.gurupanguji.com/2006/04/12/disabling-useless-services-for-speeding-up-your-computer-modifications-for-the-corporate-computers/#comment-301 Wed, 12 Apr 2006 11:18:44 +0000 http://gurupanguji.wordpress.com/2006/04/12/disabling-useless-services-for-speeding-up-your-computer-modifications-for-the-corporate-computers/#comment-301 qwerty,

Opera scores big over Firefox, by its ability to recover from crashes – will prompt to open the previous tabs/sites before it crashed or was killed. Firefox doesnt even have an option for that(at least none that I am aware of) – you have to manually bookmark all tabs – which is impossible when it crashes.

IMO 80% of the people dont need much else than standard Ffox – with perhaps adblock being one thing they might covet. So Opera to Ffox hardly should make a difference.

Also, for eg., IE 7′s anti-phishing engine(w/e its called) is much more useful than Firefox’s IP spouting extension (4got what its called, again!).

I’d stick my neck out and say Ffox 0.8 is closer to Opera 8.5 than Ffox 1.5 (security issues notwithstanding)

]]> By: Qwerty Maniac http://blog.gurupanguji.com/2006/04/12/disabling-useless-services-for-speeding-up-your-computer-modifications-for-the-corporate-computers/#comment-300 Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:38:08 +0000 http://gurupanguji.wordpress.com/2006/04/12/disabling-useless-services-for-speeding-up-your-computer-modifications-for-the-corporate-computers/#comment-300 Lol, just noticed, your edit is excellent, very humourous too :D thanks for making a corp. version of it :P

]]> By: Qwerty Maniac http://blog.gurupanguji.com/2006/04/12/disabling-useless-services-for-speeding-up-your-computer-modifications-for-the-corporate-computers/#comment-299 Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:35:07 +0000 http://gurupanguji.wordpress.com/2006/04/12/disabling-useless-services-for-speeding-up-your-computer-modifications-for-the-corporate-computers/#comment-299 The only reason I like FX is its amazing ability to render pages and its fast page load speeds by displaying text first. Opera IMO only looks good and is a lil more fast than FX. But since I dont use voice and widgets I dont seem to like its features. Also it doesnt offer the flexiblity that an open source browser provides. (Like flock, fx, mozilla)

]]> By: sukhi http://blog.gurupanguji.com/2006/04/12/disabling-useless-services-for-speeding-up-your-computer-modifications-for-the-corporate-computers/#comment-298 Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:54:19 +0000 http://gurupanguji.wordpress.com/2006/04/12/disabling-useless-services-for-speeding-up-your-computer-modifications-for-the-corporate-computers/#comment-298 Well, the rule generally is that you do NOT tamper with your corporate desktop, except for installing say stuff like Firefox, and/or applications that you use for your work/project.

And yes folks do need to change the settings based on their own experience, and needs.

winamp is better than win media player, but compared to Music match jukebox it sux. and winamp 2.8 is much better than 5.x, imo. the thing that has me going for winamp is the keyboard shortcuts!(esply ‘J’) :-)

Firefox 1.5 has more problems than pre-release 0.8. It sux majorly. The only reason to use it, is when you need auto-detection of proxies – something Opera doesnt have.

]]> By: Guru Panguji http://blog.gurupanguji.com/2006/04/12/disabling-useless-services-for-speeding-up-your-computer-modifications-for-the-corporate-computers/#comment-297 Wed, 12 Apr 2006 07:47:58 +0000 http://gurupanguji.wordpress.com/2006/04/12/disabling-useless-services-for-speeding-up-your-computer-modifications-for-the-corporate-computers/#comment-297 @Qwerty: You are welcome! That was a crisp, clean article :-) !

]]> By: Qwerty Maniac http://blog.gurupanguji.com/2006/04/12/disabling-useless-services-for-speeding-up-your-computer-modifications-for-the-corporate-computers/#comment-296 Wed, 12 Apr 2006 05:54:53 +0000 http://gurupanguji.wordpress.com/2006/04/12/disabling-useless-services-for-speeding-up-your-computer-modifications-for-the-corporate-computers/#comment-296 Thanks for the trackback and acknowledgement pal! :)

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