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My apologies for another poll, but I figure this one will be highly interesting and useful to the members.
Checking to see which OS is most useful. I'm in the middle of testing Firefox and I like what I see so far. I'm not checking for speed and I'm not in a position to check for it. With Youtube I'm looking to get continuous playback with its videos instead of start and stop, start and stop with about 10 seconds of playback at a time (freezing the video and waiting for the scroll line to move up doesn't work). Now under Firefox I get in the area of 17 seconds to 30 seconds of playback at a time and I practically got an entire video on continuous playback after first freezing and allowing the scroll line to move up making for a smoother streaming.
With respect to downloading videos, tested it out on two so far. First one no difference (but I'm being throttled so I have to retest later). The second video? Without Firefox about 10% downloaded, with Firefox, 55% downloaded. The real value to that is with 55% downloaded, it gave me enough of a preview to decide I didn't want the video (the website I downloaded from doesn't offer previews).
The only downside to Firefox I found so far is it doesn't let you progress beyond the first page of messages at a website I go to (I have a workaround to get to the last page).
So that's my story. What are your pros and cons on the OSes you've tried? Which one do you prefer?
I've picked out three for the survey, but there are many more so you can check off other and offer us your story on that one (or one of the first three). Thank you for participating.
Checking to see which OS is most useful. I'm in the middle of testing Firefox and I like what I see so far. I'm not checking for speed and I'm not in a position to check for it. With Youtube I'm looking to get continuous playback with its videos instead of start and stop, start and stop with about 10 seconds of playback at a time (freezing the video and waiting for the scroll line to move up doesn't work). Now under Firefox I get in the area of 17 seconds to 30 seconds of playback at a time and I practically got an entire video on continuous playback after first freezing and allowing the scroll line to move up making for a smoother streaming.
With respect to downloading videos, tested it out on two so far. First one no difference (but I'm being throttled so I have to retest later). The second video? Without Firefox about 10% downloaded, with Firefox, 55% downloaded. The real value to that is with 55% downloaded, it gave me enough of a preview to decide I didn't want the video (the website I downloaded from doesn't offer previews).
The only downside to Firefox I found so far is it doesn't let you progress beyond the first page of messages at a website I go to (I have a workaround to get to the last page).
So that's my story. What are your pros and cons on the OSes you've tried? Which one do you prefer?
I've picked out three for the survey, but there are many more so you can check off other and offer us your story on that one (or one of the first three). Thank you for participating.
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