h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

We're still on IE6 at school. It frequently crashes, and if you have more than one window open they all crash. When you go to reload it often takes up to 5 time for it to work.

IE 7 actually works faster on this PC than Firefox err whatever version it is... and some things will just work with IE and not Firefox, and visa versa, so having both seems a good option...

I principally use chrome now with opera as my back up.

Very occasionally crack open Firefox, but never, ever, does IE blot my screen.

FB

I just did a system restore and am now back on IE7.

I tried to install the latest version of Firefox, too, and had the same problem - my starting page, my menu bars, my search engine and my bookmarks all got hijacked by my stupid e-mail provider. And THEN I noticed that that's where I downloaded both browser updates in the first place! They obviously created special versions of both with their own stuff hard-wired into everything, then advertised them for download at their website, never mentioning that they were "tainted" versions. There was no way I could get rid of it all, it even affected my desktop and some of my folders too, with stuff I never wanted in the first place popping back up every time I opened a browser.

There was no way I could get rid of/deinstall it all, so a system restore was my only option.

Life is much better now... and I will look for those upgrades elsewhere, preferably directly from Microsoft and Firefox.