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Windows 7: IBM is moving to Firefox as its default browser
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02 Jul 2010
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Windows 7 Home Premium x64 SP1 Bay Area Peninsula |
IBM is moving to Firefox as its default browser
Quote: I talk a lot about software in this blog but most of the discussion is at the personal level: I tried this, I experimented with that. I hardly ever talk about what I use for doing my IBM business and more rarely still do I talk about IBM’s internal policies about software use. This entry is different, and gives you a bit of a view inside the company.
Like many individuals and members of organizations, IBMers use their browsers a lot for conducting business. Our desktop and laptop software environments have some common applications but also software specific to do our various jobs. And these jobs are varied, as there are about 400,000 IBM employees around the world.
Some of the software we all use shouldn’t surprise you since we make it, such as Lotus Notes, Lotus Sametime, and Lotus Symphony.
We’re officially adding a new piece of software to the list of default common applications we expect employees to use, and that’s the Mozilla Firefox browser. Source
A Guy | My System Specs |
| OS Windows 7 Home Premium x64 SP1
CPU INTEL Core i5-750 Quad-Core 3.37GHz
Motherboard ASUS P7P55D
Memory KINGSTON 4GB (2 x 2GB) HyperX PC3-12800 DDR3 1600MHz CL8
Graphics Card MSI N240GT-MD1G/D5 GeForce GT 240 1GB 128-bit GDDR5
Monitor(s) Displays Samsung SyncMaster B2430H 24"
Screen Resolution 1920 x 1080
PSU ANTEC TruePower New TP-550, 80 PLUS, 550W
Case ANTEC Three Hundred Illusion
Cooling COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 Plus, 4 x 120mm 1 x 140mm Noctua's
Hard Drives Intel X25M Gen2 80GB, SEAGATE 500GB Barracuda® 7200.12, SATA 3 Gb/s, 7200 RPM, 16MB cache
Internet Speed 20 + Mbps
Antivirus Avast
Browser Opera
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02 Jul 2010
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#2 | |
Win7 HP (x64)/Win7 Ultimate (x64) |
Thanks for the link A Guy
Regards  | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom
OS Win7 HP (x64)/Win7 Ultimate (x64)
CPU Core i7 920
Motherboard Intel X58
Memory 6 x 2GB Corsair XMS3
Graphics Card CF HD4890
Sound Card Asus Xonar
Monitor(s) Displays Dell 2408WFP
Screen Resolution 1920 x 1200
Keyboard Razer Lycosa/N52te
Mouse Razer Lachesis
PSU Corsair HX1000W
Case Antec 1200
Hard Drives 2 x 150GB WDC Velociraptors (Raid 0)
1 x 1TB Seagate
1 x 1.5TB Seagate
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02 Jul 2010
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#3 | |
Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1 (desktop) east central NY state |
Glad to see IBM agrees with me on a browser!  | | My System Specs | | Computer type PC/Desktop
System Manufacturer/Model Number Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
OS Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1 (desktop)
CPU Intel Core 2 Duo E8400
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3R
Memory 2x 2GB OCZ DDR II SDRAM PC2-6400
Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce 9400GT
Monitor(s) Displays HP 2009m(primary), Acer P191W
Screen Resolution 1600x900, 1440x900
Keyboard Logitech Wave
Mouse Logitech M-SBF90
PSU Antec Earthwatts EA500D
Case Antec Sonata III
Cooling 4 fans
Hard Drives Internal:WD Caviar Black 640GB 32MB cache 7200RPM
External:Samsung Story Station 1TB HDD desktop drive
500GB Toshiba portable drive
Internet Speed Slow due to home Wireless-G router
Antivirus MSE, Hitman Pro, Malwarebytes
Browser Chrome and Palemoon
Other Info Laptop....Acer 5750Z-4835
15.6" HD Widescreen CineCrystal™ LED-backlit LCD Display: (1366x768 resolution, 16:9 aspect ratio)
Intel® Pentium® Processor B940 (2.0GHz, 2MB L3 cache)
Windows® 7 Home Premium,500GB Hard Drive,4GB DDR3 RAM, Intel® HD Graphics,8X DVD-Super Multi Double-Layer Drive
Multi-in-1 Digital Media Card Reader,802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi
Chrome and Palemoon, MSE, Hitman Pro
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02 Jul 2010
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#4 | |
MS Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit |
Chrome all day long for me. | | My System Specs | | OS MS Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
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02 Jul 2010
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#5 | |
Windows 7 x64 / Same In Your Basement. |
Reasonable decision.
Sometimes I wish IBM worked on improving it too. Maybe it would be as fast as Chrome. | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Dell Inspiron 1520 (Laptop)/ Home (Desktop)
OS Windows 7 x64 / Same
CPU Intel Core 2 Duo T7250 / Intel Core i7 930
Motherboard Intel 945 / Asus P6X58D-E
Memory 4GB / 6GB
Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS / ASUS 1GB
Sound Card Whatever Dell gave me :-( / Onboard
Monitor(s) Displays 15.4" LCD / Crappy CRT
Mouse Microsoft Presenter (Bluetooth)
PSU N/A / OCZ Fatal1ty 550W Modular
Case N/A / Antec 900
Cooling Air
Hard Drives Seagate 500GB SATA; 7200 RPM / Seagate 1TB SATA; 7200 RPM
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02 Jul 2010
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#6 | |
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Quote: Originally Posted by noobvious  Glad to see IBM agrees with me on a browser! same here!  | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Compaq Presario CQ60-215DX
OS Windows 7 Home Premium
CPU 2 AMD Athlon 64 X2
Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce 8200M G graphics
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02 Jul 2010
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#7 | |
Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit Orlando, Florida |
I'm years ahead of IBM. | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Home built
OS Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit
CPU Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
Motherboard ASUS P4P800-VM Motherboard Chipset: Intel 865G + ICH5
Memory 2.50 GB RAM
Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS
Sound Card SoundMax Integrated Digital Audio (Chip)
Monitor(s) Displays ViewSonic VX 1962 wm
Screen Resolution 1680 X 1050
Keyboard Microsoft Comfort Curve Keyboard 2000 v10 USB
Mouse Logitec optic USB
Cooling Fan based
Hard Drives Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 80 GB
ST380215A ATA Device 18.6 GB
Western Digital "My Book" external hard drive 750 GB
Internet Speed 3.01 Mb/s download 0.64 Mb/s upload
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03 Jul 2010
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#8 | |
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. SP-1 Northern Ohio |
I think I.E. just got slapped in the face. | | My System Specs | | Computer type PC/Desktop
System Manufacturer/Model Number Home made Desktop
OS Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. SP-1
CPU Intel i7-960-3.2 @ 4.25
Motherboard ASUS P6X58D-E
Memory KINGSTON KHX2000C9, Hyper X,12 GIGS
Graphics Card MSI/Nvidia/460GTX-Cyclone 1GD5/OC
Monitor(s) Displays DYNEX 40 IN.
Screen Resolution 1920-1080 or 1280-720 HDMI
Keyboard M/S 3000 v 2.0 wireless
Mouse M/S 5000 wireless
PSU Corsair AX-850 Plus Gold
Case Corsair 600T (Black) + side panel with 2 140 mm Noctua fans
Cooling Corsair H50/2 Noctua NF-P12 (120 mm) Push/Pull-
Hard Drives INTEL SSD 120GB-SER 510
Seagate 1TB SATA 600 7200 rpm Hard Drive
Internet Speed 3.0 mb
Antivirus Microsoft Security Eesentials
Browser I.E. 10 default/Firefox
Other Info LG BluRay-Read/Write
Sound system
KLipsch-THX
Asus Router RTN-12
2 Noctua 140 added on top of 600t case
Malwarebytes Anti Malware Professional
Windows 7 Firewall
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03 Jul 2010
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#9 | |
Windows 8 Pro x64 Sydney, Australia |
Quote: Originally Posted by Layback Bear I think I.E. just got slapped in the face. It was more like a kick in the backside | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Self Built Custom Computer.
OS Windows 8 Pro x64
CPU QX6850 Quad Extreme
Motherboard Gigabyte GA EP45-UD3LR
Memory 6Gig DDR2-800
Graphics Card Gigabyte GTX 550 TI
Sound Card Creative Audigy SE (SB0570) Sound Card
Monitor(s) Displays Asus VW222 [22" LCD] and Benq 2200w [22" LCD]
Screen Resolution 1680x1050
Keyboard Logitech illuminated keyboard
Mouse Logitech M950
PSU Corsair TX 750watt
Case Coolermaster Haf - X
Cooling Noctua NH-C12P CPU Cooler
Hard Drives Samsung 840 Pro 128g SSD
OCZ Vertex 3 60GB SSD
1xWestern Digital Caviar Green 1tb
2xWestern Digital Caviar Green 2 tb
Internet Speed Cable = speeds to 20Mbps downsteam and 512kbps upsteam
Antivirus Avast Internet Security
Browser Firefox
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04 Jul 2010
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#10 | |
Windows 7 Home Premium x64 SP1 QC, Canada |
I always loved Firefox over anything else but I must say, by using Chrome on my friend's computer, I must say that Chrome would be my second choice. But here's my hunches concerning Chrome...
1. All-In-One menu à la Internet Explorer
2. Options windows and etc opens in a tab. Prefer a Window.
3. Tabs on top of address bar
4. Don't like download manager. | | My System Specs | | Computer type PC/Desktop
System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom build
OS Windows 7 Home Premium x64 SP1
CPU Core i7 950 3.06 GHz
Motherboard Gigabyte X58A-UD3R
Memory Corsair XSM3 6GB 1333MHz DDR3 9-9-9-24
Graphics Card Asus nVidia GeForce GTX460 Factory Overclocked
Sound Card HT-Omega Claro 7.1
Monitor(s) Displays Asus VW246H 24"
Screen Resolution 1920x1080
Keyboard Logitech K350
Mouse Logitech M510
PSU Xigmatek NRP-PC702 700W (cable hell)
Case Lian-Li Lancool PC-K62
Cooling Stock fans for PC case, Cooler Master Hyper N520 for CPU
Hard Drives 1x90GB OCZ Vertex 2 SSD (System, internal)
1x1TB Western Digital Green (Internal)
1x1TB Samsung/Seagate 7200RPM (Internal)
1x500GB Hitachi 7200RPM (Internal)
Internet Speed 30Mbits dl - 10Mbits up
Browser Firefox v20
Other Info Sound system : Eagle Arion ET-AR504LR-BK 35 Watts RMS 2.1
Printer : Samsung ML-2010 Mono
Scanner : Canon Canoscan LiDE 200
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