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I got sick of the ads on photbucket and I use it all the time so I decided to upgrade to pro. For $40 you get 2 years so that's not bad considering if you doing it monthly is $3/month and 1 year is $25.

Anyways, they give you stats with your regular acount but I guess with pro they give you more stats. They also give you 25GB of space for pictures, movies and SWF flash files. They give you FTP access which I might try out, could be faster than the stupid website method of uploading and managing my pictures. They remove the ads which is very nice because there's stupid pop up videos all the time getting in my way and pissing me off and I'm sure the load times will be a touch quicker without loading video ads.

I was browsing the specs just now and on september 25th I had 2,324 acount views! WTF! That's just crazy right there. Looks like the average for the past 2 weeks has been around 1,000 views a day. I wonder how it's so many? I only post pictures actively on this forum, occasionally on NASIOC and I have a few pictures on diymobileaudio forum but I never go on there anymore.

Maybe somehow people are seeing pictures from my albums on photobucket just browsing through photo catagories from public acounts or something.

Overall photbucket is pretty cool. I hate how they changed it a couple things about it though. First off they changed it to where you have to hover over an image to get the checkbox and options for copy and paste to appear. This makes for a substantially slower process of selecting photos to generate IMG code for forum posting. I also don't like how they disabled the auto copy feature. It uses to be when you clicked anywhere inside the box that displays the code generated for the image(s) you selected it would automatically copy the code for you. Now it does not so that takes one more step to do. It was really convenient before. Just a nice touch but for some reason they got rid of it.

You need to get this: flashblock


Blocks flash unless you want to see it. Great for getting rid of those f***ing annoying blinking adds, and uses a placemarker so you can watch them if you want. I have another firefox extension that I wrote in Python for linux that blocks all adds, period, if you're interested (still alpha though).

I'm using internet explorer.

kimokalihi wrote:I'm using internet explorer.

You shouldn't be.

Yeah dude... ditch internet exploder. It's horrific from a security standpoint.

fishbone79 wrote:Yeah dude... ditch internet exploder. It's horrific from a security standpoint.

Not only that but it's slow as fuck for anything that uses a lot of javascript.

And with FireFox you can use Adblock Plus. I don't think I've seen a banner ad in about 3 years.

It's too bad they got rid of the automatic copy feature, I was really impressed by that when I noticed it years back

And, yeah, Firefox all the way man. IE must be shunned.

fishbone79 wrote:Yeah dude... ditch internet exploder. It's horrific from a security standpoint.

Firefox still doesn't prevent moron users from making mistakes... I've found IE loads faster than any version of FF I've used on my home PC. many of the work PCs exhibit the same thing. As long as you know what you're doing, either will get the job done..

One could make that same argument for Mac.... But in the end, it's still like shaving with a bowling pin Simply not suitable for power users.


All joking aside, from a coding standpoint, internet exploder is far inferior to firefox as far as extensibility and versatility. Both will get the job done, but I'd much rather go to war with a AR than a rubber band gun. Plus, firefox is open source.

I've only tried firefox once. There were some things that didn't work right on it and I went back to internet explorer. Didn't feel like learning a new browser when I'm already used to IE.

I won't be installing all those plug-ins anyhow. The only feature that's of any interest to me is how it's said to be more secure but even that's not that big of a deal to me.

Google chrome isn't 100% yet but I really like it. Its easily the fastest of them all and the most stable on normal web pages. It has lots of 'neat ideas', like waiting until your password/name is entered successfully before it asks if you'd like it to remember it.

best of all in my opinion is the massive viewing area. Very little clutter. The search function is integrated with the URL bar. If you type a url it goes to it but if you type a phrase into the url bar it does a google search.

Some javascript and flash apps don't work 100% yet. Some sites like my online portions of my college class don't support it. It has some more ease of use functions it could add in. It's still in beta for the most part but it is still my primary browser.

tried chrome and was not impressed. Firefox is definately better than Chrome.