So Shoot Me I Like Internet Explorer 9!

[gertsy]

@ TheDaddy

OK, you have problems with Chrome, even with simple sites/things as streaming audio, and have had it for a long time obviously, while I have *never* had a  single problem like that (been using Chrome for many, many years), rather the opposite actually, it just works, with everything, everywhere, faster than anything else. If you think your problems and inabilities (like streaming audio from that BBC site, for example, which simply *works*) lies in the Chrome software and not in your own, local system configuration, then I digress...

Tried Chrome for a while on this laptop XP, ran fine most of the time but had strange momentary freezes which turned me off.  IE8 on the otherhand has been very reliable.  Gave up on firefox years ago.
On Windows 7 IE9 is fast(with the accelerators) and reliable and easy to use.  Though I still prefer favorites on the LHS.

[gertsy]

I also turned off Chrome when I found out Google basically pay hackers to tell them of any security issues/holes in Chrome.  The proviso;  You don't get paid if you tell anyone else.  Fine product, shiftier and shiftier company.