Looking for Internet Browser that Works Well with Swagbucks.

United States
December 29, 2012 12:47am CST
Well, I am coming to the conclusion that all browsers have their pros and cons. Not all websites work well with all internet browsers. Currently, I have both Internet Explorer and Firefox and Internet Explorer. I love Firefox, but lately it has been giving me headaches. I do think after completely reinstalling and doing a system restore back to a few weeks ago that I have managed to finally get Firefox back working properly. Still, I am finding some issues with Firefox and Swagbucks. This is leaving me to wonder if there is a specific browser that works best with Swagbucks. I have seen on the internet people saying that there are issues with Internet Explorer and Swagbucks. When I tried Internet Explorer with SBs I ran into the same issue that I was having with Firefox that I could not launch some of the videos from the home page. Can you please recommend what browsers work best with Swagbucks? Have you encountered any issues with Firefox recently? Firefox used to be so reliable, but recently it too has had issues. Maybe, the hackers are now going after Firefox with the surge of Apple sales. I am not sure what is going on. It is getting crazy that you need so many browsers because not all sites work on all browsers. I read one article that recommended downloading all 5 browsers: Firefox, Internet Explore, Opera, Safari, and Chrome. Still this seems a tad extreme to me. What do you think? Do we really need to have five internet browsers on our computers these days?
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@FrugalMommy (1438)
• United States
29 Dec 12
The homepage videos launch fine for me in the most recent version of Firefox but I can't get them to work at all in Internet Explorer. I normally use Internet Explorer just for the toolbar bonus and to run SBTV videos. Everything else I do on Firefox. Five different browsers seems really extreme to me. I would stick with only Firefox but I didn't want to install the Swagbucks toolbar on it. If the videos on the homepage are from Radium One you might be able to find them on the regular special offers tabs. That's where I look when I can't get them to launch from the homepage. Oh, you might double-check your pop-up blocker settings to see if that's blocking some of the video launches. I had that happen with one of my recent Firefox upgrades. After I fixed it, everything worked fine again.
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• United States
29 Dec 12
You know, it could be a problem with Windows 7. One of the recent updates did something that messed up my registry and made my DVD drive stop working. I'm still trying to figure out how to fix it. My Firefox updates automatically. The version I have now is 17.0.1. You can see what version you're doing by going to About Firefox in the Help menu. I've been getting messages about Flash, too, but I have the most recent version installed. Most of the time I'm happy to stick with the versions I have. I got tired of iTunes prompting me to upgrade to version 11 so I went ahead and did it... and it was awful! They changed the whole interface around! I downgraded to the old version less than five minutes after installing the new one. Speaking of procrastinating... I'm still about 20 points away from today's goal on Swagbucks. Guess I'd better get back to watching SBTV. I've met the goal every day this month so far and I'd hate to lose the big bonus now.
@inertia4 (27961)
• United States
13 Jan 13
Well, since I have a Mac I cannot use Internet Explorer. But I used to have FireFox and it was a total waste of time for me. I currently use Safari for everything. And on certain occasions I use Chrome. I find Safari to be the best browser and Chrome to be the second best. I have never tried Opera.
@aerous (13434)
• Philippines
4 Jan 13
I think having five or more browser in our computer to open any website, is a wise decision to make a better choice when it comes to faster browsing. Even if we can't used them at the same time. The good thing was we can used any of them when the other one did not open any website that we want to visit...