Microsoft recently published a comparision table for three big (?!) browsers: IE8, Firefox and Chrome. Here is the table (i made a screenshot in case they change their minds):

After you stop laughing, let’s take it step by step. So:

1. Security. Ok, maybe I lied when I said we will take it step by step. I don’t worry about security because I don’t visit obscure sites (too often). However, in last three or four years of using Firefox I had NO PROBLEMS with security. Ok, if an obscure site will ASK you to install a toolbar and you will install it… That’s not poor security. That’s great stupidity!
2. Privacy. I will skip this step too because I’m the only one who use my PC. Besides that I don’t login on other machines. However, Chrome have a “stealth mode” and Firefox permits you to clear all private data (just hit CTRL+SHIFT+DEL).
3. Ease of use. I’m not the right person to judge about this, so I won’t.
4. Web Standards. ACID test: Firefox 72/100 and IE8 12/100. I don’t even start Chrome.
5. Developer Tools. Are you kidding me? Seriously, are you kidding me? The “web developer” is a joke if you compare with firebug. You only can set breakpoints with debugger but you can’t see values on that breakpoint! How stupid is that? Also, if you want to debug a page you need to… (guess!) RELOAD the page! Dumb asses! And for network monitoring what do you have? Nothing? Oh, that’s a bummer.
6. Reliability. Indeed, this is a problem on Firefox. But not on Chrome too (Chrome will open a new process for each tab).
7. Customizability. Riiiight. Please show me some IE8 themes!
8. Manageability. I’m not in a company, i don’t care.
9. Performance. It’s a tie, they admit it.

I wonder why they didn’t include Safari and Opera in that chart…

Until two months ago I had a Microsoft Laser 6000. I also runned Microsoft Vista. Hilarious (or not), two MS products doesn’t work together. Or not in the first place.

On some applications, the scroll from the mouse was choppy as hell and kinda impossible to use. I founded two application: winamp and e-texteditor. If winamp is not a big deal (because i use foobar), the real problem was my editor. After few searches on google, i found this solution:

1. I installed the driver (intellipoint);
2. Go to start -> run -> msconfig -> startup tab -> find and uncheck ipoint.exe;
3. And finally, restart your computer

A real pain in the ass was when I wanted to change scrolling speed. I used a system tweaker and change settings from there. After that, restart and saw if is fine. Usually, 3-4 lines for scroll was great.

Few months after, I changed position of my computer and i had to unplug all wires (and trust me, i have A LOT of wires there). Of course, when I plugged all things back, i didn’t put the mouse receiver in the same USB port and it doesn’t worked well. I guess the same problem you will have if you have a notebook, then be sure you plug in the mouse in the very same usb port, because all things will be messed up. Solution? Put the receiver in the same port or redo all settings. I always picked first.