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Mozilla loaded up for browser wars.
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| 4/26/2002
| Rex Baldazo
Posted on 04/26/2002 6:14:19 PM PDT by Uni-Poster
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To: Uni-Poster
I still like lynx. I know I'm alone in that. I love a quick, non-banner-add~ing, non-pop-up-menu~ing, non-java~cised, whatever... Oh well... `
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posted on
04/26/2002 6:24:58 PM PDT
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Who dat?
To: Uni-Poster
After four or five years of work, it's still not as fast as Internet Explorer and it's still full of bugs? Plus I hear it has a very large footprint. I think I'll hold off installing it.
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posted on
04/26/2002 6:39:21 PM PDT
by
Cicero
To: Who dat?
I still like lynx. I know I'm alone in that.
Not really. I consider lynx to be, of course, "old school." My "old school-ness," if you will, is consistent with my daily use of vi (don't give me emacs!). In other words, I like lynx a lot.
Lynx is cool for text, but you can't efficiently use it to browse and reply on FR, sad to say.
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posted on
04/26/2002 6:44:25 PM PDT
by
rdb3
To: Cicero
I've tried Mozilla 1.0 RC1.
No thanks. The problem is still not as snappy as IE 6.0 and is not as intuitive to use, either.
To: Uni-Poster
Opera 6 is available for free (it plays ads at you up in one corner of the screen) and works pretty well. It has pop-up rejection and useful cookie controls built in and for some reason seems to yield many fewer modem 'device errors' than IE6 does, at least on my system.
I have pretty much stopped using IE6 in favor of Opera 6. IE users may be interested to know that Opera will import your IE 'favorites' directly.
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posted on
04/26/2002 6:51:51 PM PDT
by
Grut
To: Uni-Poster
The Munchkins should be getting their talking point memos any minute now. Let's see if we can guess what lines of attack they will take. I figure the "open source software is communism" canard will be one of the first ones floated. The "no one uses it" ploy is also an obvious candidate, and they'll probably send in at least two Munchkins to claim that they personally tried it, and it's full of bugs and besides that it makes your hard disk explode. It will be interesting to see if any of them try to seize on the fact that it's free by saying "you get what you pay for." They have for months been arguing that Microsoft was only being helpful in giving away IE for free, but this time free will mean not 'helpful' but 'get whatcha pay for.' Consistent logical argument has never been the Mark Of The Munchkins. Damn, I almost forgot about security holes. Yep, it's full of security holes. They'll have to try that one; that's essential to the cultivation of fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Starting the Bush2000 timer....NOW. Tick.. tick.. tick.. |
To: Uni-Poster
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posted on
04/26/2002 7:02:36 PM PDT
by
rdb3
To: Nick Danger
Nick, Mozilla simply isn't relevant anymore. The browser war is over. Netscape lost. Fold your tent and go home.
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posted on
04/26/2002 7:07:21 PM PDT
by
Bush2000
To: Nick Danger
RE # 9:
That'll learn ya! You didn't anticipate that one, didja?! I'm sorry, we're stuck with IE (and with Bushie2K, it goes without saying) for the next millenium!
To: all
Mozilla (0.9.9)'s my choice of a net browser, I'm running it right now.
It currently runs noticeably faster than both IE and Navigator. But that might be due to the fact that I don't have any plug-ins loaded but there are alot less pop ups. When theres a flash graphic I want to see or a Java area I need.
To: FreepEverything
When theres a flash graphic I want to see or a Java area I need = When theres a flash graphic I want to see or a Java area I need I just use IE.
To: Uni-Poster
Opera 6 is worth paying for. The ability to turn graphics off with a single keystroke is the only thing that makes surfing on a dialup link even possible anymore.
To: Cicero
In my experience it is faster than IE. Large pages render much faster for me. Crashes less too. I hope MS gets pissed at the constant error reports I have XP send them whenever IE crashes.
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posted on
04/26/2002 7:30:29 PM PDT
by
sigSEGV
To: FreepEverything
Flash and Java work on mine fine.
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posted on
04/26/2002 7:31:20 PM PDT
by
sigSEGV
To: FreepEverything
The only feature I find it missing is NTLM pass-through authentication.
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posted on
04/26/2002 7:34:07 PM PDT
by
sigSEGV
To: Uncle Fud
While it's a mouse-click instead of a keystroke, the mozilla prefs bar gives you quick access to several settings. You can grab it from
here.
To: dwollmann
Very slick. Thanks. The only thing missing is disabling proxies -- Oh wait, there it is.
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posted on
04/26/2002 7:39:15 PM PDT
by
sigSEGV
To: Bush2000
Nick, Mozilla simply isn't relevant anymore. The browser war is over. Netscape lost. Fold your tent and go home.
Maybe over in the windows domain, but still going strong in the unix/linux domain. I run solaris 8 with gnome, don't even think IE will run on that...and if it did - no way would I try it! But I do use IE on all my w2000 servers.
To: Bush2000
Nick, Mozilla simply isn't relevant anymore. The browser war is over. Netscape lost. Fold your tent and go home. Heh heh, good one :)
I admit, I didn't see that one coming. And you guys used that one before, too. I must be getting forgetful in my old age.
I understand that the 35 million AOL users are going to be getting a new browser soon. Do you know which rev. of IE it is? I sometimes do web sites, so I have to be up on anything that tens of millions of people are going to be using.
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