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1 out of 15 people found this review helpful
0.5 stars
"Slow as hell"
Pros: none
Cons: Slow as hell. Can't use on all sites
Summary: Sorry this is a loser like the old FireFox.
One of my favorite sites is Club Pogo. Takes over 1 1/2 minutes to load the home page and then still doesn't everything on the page. Game will not load AT ALL. And if you don't have membership to Club Pogo you won't know what I'm talking about so no smart-ass answers here saying it loads in 2 seconds because you're not on the right page.
So what use is this browswer? I have to have use IE on some sites and use FF for others that it actually works on? Sorry I'll take a browswer that will actualy work on EVERY site I visit and loads in less than 1 1/2 minutes. You think all the time Mozila had to solve the display issue they would have fixed it.
If you absolutelty can't use IE, I would recomend Opera 9 over FF2 any day of the week.
- 4 replies to this review
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and you could have checked those spelling mistakes with ff2
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I've been using Firefox with Pogo for years, and have had no problems. IE has always loaded Pogo more slowly. Plus, with the Adblock extension installed, I can play Pogo games without any of the annoying Flash ads trying to give me a seizure.
While I've had a number of problems with Pogo games, all of those problems have been with Pogo, not with my browser. -
This browser is so much faster than IE its funny. Your PC is either screwed with spyware, because you use IE, or your just an MS fanboy. I'll say both.
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I am not sure what your computer specs are, but I have had no problems getting Firefox 1.5 or 2.0 to run games on Pogo. I play high RAM use games like Texas Hold'em Poker and Turbo 21. Everything loads fine and quick.
I am a Club Pogo member. As you know Pogo Java is so poorly written at time that games will crash for no apparent reason. The feature in Firefox 2.0 that restores the current session after you close the browser to fix a Pogo error is priceless.
I have been playing Pogo for years, hell before they even had a Club Membership. I played for years with IE 6 and Firefox 1.5. I prefer Firefox. And the new one works perfect on Pogo.
If you play a lot of games online you are well of active X security issues. With Firefox you don't have to worry about it.
My advice to you would be make sure you are running the latest Java script with Firefox 2.
IE 7 is Microsoft's best browser. I have been involved with beta testing of it. However, it is still behind Firefox. Firefox 2 is now and most likely always be the best browser going.
I also have used Opera 9. For customizing and tinkering I love it. However, like Linux and believe Opera 9 is still a "geeks" toy. I have never been able to get Opera 9 to load Pogo correctly. It is a Java problem with the browser. I am still waiting to get help with this issue in the Opera community forum.
Again, let me stress...as someone that has used Pogo for years, they have a lot of bad Java code. If you install an updated Java thru Firefox as a plug-in after uninstalling an old version Of Java your games will work about as perfect as Pogo's designers could get.
This is an honest opinion of my personal experience. I have no ax to grind either way. Having used all browsers to do the same things over a long period of time, I select Firefox.
