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ChakanTGM:
Mozilla is the best browser for windows.
mobrien_12:
quote:Originally posted by Ctrl Alt Del 123:
Also, nutscrape takes 5 seconds to open. IE takes less than 1.[/QB]
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Thats because IE is essentially loaded when you boot up. Those four seconds didn't come from nowhere. In fact, the forced integration of the browser likely makes your boot much more than four seconds longer.
Kintaro:
Are you people not hearing me!!!
If you turn on Quick Launch Netscape will be loaded at Startup you bunch of idiots!!! LISTEN TO ME.
Internet Explorer is nicely Integrated into Windows.
Look at your desktop, that is an open copy of IE, look at your "My Computer" Also nicely integrated.
Even your recycle bin is.
Now go see how long IE 5.0 takes in Windows 3.1 Comapred to Netscape without quicklaunch
MxCl:
quote:Originally posted by M. O'Brien:
Thats because IE is essentially loaded when you boot up. Those four seconds didn't come from nowhere. In fact, the forced integration of the browser likely makes your boot much more than four seconds longer.
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I reduced my boot time from 2 minutes down to 34 seconds by installing 98Lite and clean installing without any of the MS HTML engine and other misc. utilities (eg. MS Task Scheduler <-Urrrgh!).
Browser choice is such a heated issue. For me it mainly comes down to features. MSIE is so featureless. Opera is pretty good for features and definately excels erganomically, but Mozilla seems to be the king of functionality. I use Opera because it is so nippy and erganomic.
Opera shows pages more correctly than MSIE 6. This is a highly debated statement but I am almost entirely sure it is true. I am led to believe that when Opera doesn't show pages correctly it is because the markup is syntactically incorrect. I have no evidence to back this up, however if a page comes up wierd in Opera get w3c.org to validate the source; I expect it will turn out bad.
People ocassionally just design pages for MSIE, and often use code that only renders properly in MSIE, or worse, they use MSIE specific tags.
I don't use MSIE because I believe the Internet should not be run by companies, and certainly not by a single corporation (with dubious business practices).
Ctrl Alt Del 123:
4.1 and 6.2 are now BOTH installed on my mom's computer at work, due to Communicator not having a feature that 4.1 has. And to fairly compare browsers, I used 6.2 to see what it was all about.
6.2 was nothing special. I don't see anything that great about it. 4.1 works BETTER than 6.2 really on that computer.
Back onto my main machine (XP), now that I have GoBack, I downloaded and installed Netscape 6.2. Ran defrag and restarted because "You must restart in order to use Netscape 6.2". Again, I was not that impressed to say "OH MY GOD, THIS ROCKS", it's just another browser, works good, doesn't crash, not bad. Netscape isn't so bad.
However... Netscape, without my choice, took over MY computer. It became the default program for HTML files, and now when I type "search stuff" in the toolbar in IE, I doesn't use google anymore, it uses Netscape Search!
This is BULL. I then went into GoBack and there it was, It DOES install the BDE player. Right then, I reverted my HD before it was infected with that crap. I don't want BDE on MY computer, no distributed advertising for me!
I suggest all you Netscape users to realize this BIG mistake, and go to brillantdigital.com and download the bdecleaner.exe to remove that shit.
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