Panasonic's Reply To Driver's

I have been reading some articles from Google regarding Chrome and from FF stating that it was very important that people update there driver's in order for there browser's to work properly. It's been a highly discussed topic on various sites.

I was just loading a new OS on my MK2 and it had caught my eye the date that Panasonic had last updated the drivers. It was 9/09 I believe on the CF-30MK2. So I sent an email to Panasonic asking them what we should do or what there opinion is of the statements from Google and FF. I received a response and it blew me away. He said to always install the latest drivers. He went on to state that unless Intel or any other company sends us a new driver that we will not do anything. That blew me away to say the least. They are always so emphatic about there drivers.



so, I guess I will go and update all my driver's and see what happens. Although I can promise you that some of these things are not going to work properly.



Thoughts??

Reply 1 : Panasonic's Reply To Driver's

Why would you need to update drivers for a friggin browser? I never heard of that. Toyo what sort of problems occur on those browsers? I am an Opera user and have never needed to upgrade any drivers.



update: okay I googled around a bit and it seems it is the video drivers. For get this gpu accelerated browsing. This is for Chrome, I assume some similar problem for FF. Damn that's one reason I gave up gaming on a PC always had to be updating the video drivers to latest version. Now my browser needs me to do that. Screw that! I'll stick with Opera. Never used Chrome as Google has enough of my info already it doesn't need anymore and Firefox has becoma bloated mess. It seems laptop users will get screwed as a lot of laptop video drivers are specialized and not updated as often if at all. Those FN keys (brightness, volume,etc) are tied into the video driver at least on the Toughbooks

Reply 2 : Panasonic's Reply To Driver's

That is exactly why I was amazed with Panasonics response is the video drivers being such an intregrated part.

This whole GPU Acceleration Rendering stuff is what started it all. Actually IE9 is the browser that 1st had it, I believe.



I use IE9 and Chrome. FF is too much of a mess in my opinion. Some people love it of course...If you have not tried IE9 yet, give it a try, it's not that bad and much better than 8.

Reply 3 : Panasonic's Reply To Driver's

Well if IE9 is doing it I expect it will start to become common to upgrade laptop video drivers. Thing is it won't be common for a couple of gens of laptop at least. Hell we are barely past the point where you could never upgrade the video driver what you got is what you got. Now you can upgrade direct from intel/nvidia/amd but it might not be supported by your laptop manufacturer. You will get video functionality but might lose some specialty functions.

Reply 4 : Panasonic's Reply To Driver's

Yep, pick your poison or what is more important to you.

Reply 5 : Panasonic's Reply To Driver's

Here is FF's info.

Mozilla Agrees, Update Your Graphics Drivers



Google pretty much says the same.

Reply 6 : Panasonic's Reply To Driver's

I knew there was a reason I quit using Chrome, I have to agree with eno801 about Opera, I use it on all of my computers with no problems. I have IE9 64 bit RC on my desktop but don't really use it that much.

Reply 7 : Panasonic's Reply To Driver's

I have no problems with using Chrome. It is by far the fastest of any that I have tried. I really like the Sync feature. Does Opera have that?



I was reading an article the other day as to where a competition was going on to see if these guys could hack the security of browsers. It was actually put on by the browser people themselves. This one guy broke Safari's security in less that 5 minutes. I believe FF was next, with Chrome being the only one they could not hack. I wish they would have tried the new IE9 but for some reason it was not included. I am going to have to try Opera and see what it's all about.

Reply 8 : Panasonic's Reply To Driver's

It's not necessary to test Internet Explorer, it always has been and will continue to be the least secure of browsers. In fairness, IE is the most hacked because it is the most used so you get the maximum bang for time invested. That said, Microsoft has never made a good browser IMHO. Just like their operating systems, as soon as they get it working pretty well, greed and stock market forces induce them to abandon the old and introduce the new bloatware.

CAP

Reply 9 : Panasonic's Reply To Driver's

Actually Safari is the least secure, with IE8 being the 2nd most difficult. Have you tried IE9? It's not that bad, a huge improvement over 8 IMHO.



You are correct that Microsoft products are the most widely used. It's a bigger target. I hate it when people say Mac does not have A/V problems. The hackers just don't after a smaller target. Apple pushes out a lot more security fixes than most people are aware of.