wtf is with internet explorer on campus

Xios

It keeps dropping sites and crashing,
I'd like chrome or firefox please thank you.

KonFusion

IE is crap as it is, the college one just seems to be particularly bad.

You can download portable versions of chrome and firefox from portableapps.com and a few other sources that a quick google search will provide. Just save it to usb or X drive, they're both pretty small, esp chrome.

dueyfinster

Firefox Portable - Chrome Portable

I've used both from USB and X: drive and they work really well

Thts what I do, although I dont use the portable, I just threw the full Firefox flder onto my X drive.

IE in the college is so bad!!

KonFusion

I think the issue might be iframes. you can't access ie settings as its restricted so its just a guess. btw normal chrome will install fine too on the pcs, just wait for it to resolve proxy when it first loads

KonFusion

KonFusion wrote: »

btw normal chrome will install fine too on the pcs, just wait for it to resolve proxy when it first loads

Just to let ye know, you dont have to wait for proxies to resolve with Firefox

brendanL

crashs on sites? hellz yeah I think it sucks but I haven't seen any major problems with it for day to day college needs... that portable apps is deadly! Very handy to setup, been using it since last semester and I love it longggg time ;D

now the firewall being seemingly amped up lately.. for that I have a special different category of reserved hatred -_-

dueyfinster

brendanL wrote: »

now the firewall being seemingly amped up lately.. for that I have a special different category of reserved hatred -_-

didn't notice that - it used to worse imho, couldn't even download .exes off the portable apps site at one stage :mad:

FenJai

The wireless firewall is borderline retarded at this point. You cant download anything over 70mb and it blocks pages based on a "weighted phrase limit".

I can understand that they want to block porn and such but I couldnt get onto arstechnica the other day.

* angry fist*