zzaxx et al: part of the problem with IE8 is that MSFT moved to conform to the W3C standards a bit more closely -- the result being that it doesn't always work properly with sites that were specifically built to work with IE's (non-conforming-to-standards) earler versions.

Firefox is far better in this (standards conformance) regard, regardless of smugness.

Do also try Opera. It's not smug, it's Norwegian. I use it a lot. I never use IE now, except when I have to because bits of Microsoft's site "censor" non-IE browsers from access. I think being dog-in-the-manger is worse than being smug. :-)

Talking of which, there are reports that some parts of Microsoft's site don't work with IE8 for precisely the reasons stated. Hoist with their own petard.

I'll stick with IE7. Thank you all. Not feeling too adventurous these days. :)

I am back on firefox,IE8 hangs too much,

I'm finding that Firefox, (v 3.0.10), has a tendency to hang on my machine. IE8 is perhaps a bit better in this respect, but I still prefer Firefox, ( I trust it more than anything that comes out of MS)

I have no problems with FireFox 3.0.10 on my Win XP IBM ThinkPad or with Opera 9.64.

I have to say that I haven'y used IE in years, except on the increasingly rare occasions when I found a site that wouldn't render with the other browsers.

I have a hunch that Google Chrome (which I don't use regularly) will also help to wean site builders off their tendency to build for IE only.

When we set out to build MoneyAM in 2002, we tried to make sure that it would work with all browsers at the time -- IE, FireFox, Opera, Safari etc). It's not that hard, it simply takes awareness and a bit of testing.

I keep getting a very annoying pop up from Party Markets.

It only happens on the MoneyAM site and is almost impossible to stop. It defeats Firefox and IE8 popup blockers.

It is so persistent that I wonder if it is a virus but can't find anything. Do other people have the same problem? has anybody found an easy cure?

opto,

That is an advert being run by us, however, you should see it only once per login session. If you are seeing it more than once, then you machine is not allowing the cookie it sets (to make it display only once) or said cookie is being deleted. if you allow session cookies, this shoudl cure the problem.

Ian

Ian

Well at least I'm glad it is not a virus. My cookie settings are not particularly strict but I still get the damn thing at least once a day sometimes more.

I know that you depend on advertising, but you should bear in mind that any advert that is so intrusive that people are prepared to spend significant time to defeat them can only be counter productive for the advertiser and the host site. For all that I know, Party Markets may be a good company that gives a really good service, but I will never have anything to do with them because of that advert.

And neither will I.

I am deeply paranoid and totally suspicious about any firm who markets their product so intrusively and aggressively or is headed up by such a 'pushy bastard' policy maker within it, who finds a need to market his firm's products that way.

I vow never, ever, to give them any of my business and I urge others to adopt the same policy.

If they need to push so hard then it is utterly obvious that a sensible customer ought to resist.

Just try shopping in a vegetable market. See how you feel when someone aggressively tries to push some of their fruit or veg' at you. Exactly the same logic applies. If you want 1lb of tomatoes and they try to make you have 2lbs instead, you'd tell them to 'stick 'em', wouldn't you?

Party Markets, IMHO, are just arrogant tossers!

And just what attitude do you feel they would they adopt, when they have such a business mindset as they illustrate with their attitude to marketing, if you had a problem with them that required some 'customer service'?

Their attitude to the subject of 'care about the customer' is totally absent.

I look upon the Party Markets ad as being akin to a colonoscopy. It's certainly not something you'd willingly put your name down for.

Being on the free service, I've refrained from complaining about the Party Markets advert. However, I think MAM is alienating it's own customers by turning the actual MAM LOGIN field into an annoying advert!

"it is utterly obvious that a sensible customer ought to resist" (my emphasis)

Therein lies the crux of the issue - I bet that's not the type of customer they're looking for... I can't help thinking that advertising via pop-up ads is a deliberate attempt to attract the kind of people who click them ;-) You lose, they win, right?

PlanB - try being a paying customer and having all manner of distracting flashing adverts apparently determined to divert your attention away from the data you've paid to see and the split-second decisions you have to make. You have to block all MoneyAM's ads in the end if you want to concentrate. I wouldn't have minded seeing the ads if they had been more subtle - after all, I want to know if there's a new CFD provider in town and so on. There's a company looking at setting up as a MAM/ADVFN competitor so if it gets off the ground maybe there'll be a bit more competition next year which should be a good thing.

It might be a coincidence, but my comp has picked up "Right Media"
at about the same time as this popup started overlaying opening page.

It is not detected by Avast or superanti spyware.
Spybot S&D detects and appears to delete, but when I reboot it's back again.
Free ZoneAlarm is always on High.
I drop the privacy setting to med High from High to use email.
OS XPpro.
Suggestions welcomed to remove without having to reformat.
Tks.

Some information about Right Media - http://www.benedelman.org/rightmedia-deception/

SpyHunter (from this link - http://www.uninstall-spyware.com/uninstallRightmedia.html) claims to be able to remove it, but I've never heard of SpyHunter, so don't know if it is (a) any good, or (b) malware, though I've not found any links (so far) that identify it as such

Any comments/views about Avant browser please chaps/chapesses?
I ran Firefox & was getting to like it but I've a new packaging labelling software prog that only runs on IE or Avant.

I seem to be seeing a lot of people complaining about 'hanging' when browsing. It seems to be happening more & more to everyone. Is it just my perception or have others noticed it? Also my PC gets more fragmented than it used to. I run Fix It disc defrag once a week & notice that my disc is about usually 9% fragmented. This never used to happen.

The date on my machine is correct. I know this to be the case because I have checked on it with a visual inspection. I have also sent myself some test e-mails, with and without Read Request receipts. Everything checks out OK at my end.

However, for the second time in a few days I have received an e-mail from someone else with an incorrect date reference.

The latest one, which is a Read Receipt for an e-mail I sent on the 15th is from the recipient. It arrived on my machine this morning (no problem with that as he might only just have read it today). The e-mail is dated today (17th) but says the recipient has read it but on the 18th (which is tomorrow!)

I paste the receipt below, with simple suitable edits, to show you the gist of what it says:

This is a receipt for the mail you sent to
"Fred Blogs" at 15/06/2009 16:42

This receipt verifies that the message has been displayed on the recipient's computer at 18/06/2009 09:35

Can I properly infer and conclude the recipient's machine's date must be incorrect?

My machine's operating system is Windows XP Professional. The time is correctly maintained automatically. However, I do know you can mess the clock up by say, checking on the time clock on the information bar, going ahead a month or so to check what day of the week a certain date falls on and then clicking on 'OK' instead of 'Cancel' to finish off with. Might my recipient have done something like this?

Am I correct in assuming this is also the case for other operating systems on people's computers, where the OS is not Windows based?

Vista, Windows 7 and many Lynux distros have a pop up calender on the task tray clock so it is less likely that the date is indavertently changed by the way you suggest on those OS's.

The internet time service often did not work properly (or at all) on Windows XP and Vista. It is possible that this was fixed on XP SP3 and Vista SP2 but I haven't checked and wouldn't count on it. Windows 7 and Lynux have no problems with Internet time servers.

Does anybody have an opinion on locally hosted affiliate software (Mega maybe?)?

Two that have been brought to my attention are:

Post Affiliate Pro 4

and

iDev Affiliate

Anyone know how to setup Opera Mini Mod 2.06 on Sony K800, I've been told to alter the connection settings in the menus of Opera, but I can't seem to find it

Which is better Crossfire or SLI video card, and which one should I get thats got at least 4 DVI's and HDMI connections?