Hi, Civileme
I beg to differ with you. IE 5 with only security upgrades
and toys from MS and all the plugins you could want worked great
on my machine....including a MS Agent toy to read me web pages,
not the Bonzi Buddy (annoying), just a simple MS Agent script
that would open your default Agent and read whatever you had
highlighted on the page...then it would go away. Until you invoked
it with the right mouse click Read It!
It very rarely ever crashed. I came to Linux for the security issues
not because IE5 was a problem. I had more problems with
third party stuff than anything else.
And I also came to Linux because I think it is a more stable OS,
and more fun...lots to learn and lots of new things to play with.
Netscrappy wasn't one of the things I was looking forward to.
I didn't like it in Windows and I am totally not happy with it
in Linux. Netscrappy bombs in Linux many more times than
IE5 ever did. The real difference...I can kill it when it misbehaves,
try that in Windows. Even if it gets a runaway situation I can
still cleanly shut down in Linux.
The browser was never the issue .... the OS was a major issue.
The third party software that phoned home was an issue as
well. The viruses.
What clinched it for me was the stupid worm viruses. I just
knew it was time to go to something more stable and secure.
I still think IE5 has the best browser and Outlook Express the
best ever email program out today.
But I use netscrappy because it is the only one that
is somewhat reasonable in Linux....so far.
Of course, that is just my opinion and you know what they
say about those :)
Bambi
Civileme wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > On 12 Jun, TK Kim wrote:
> > > Neither.
> > > I am kinda sick of Netscape, too. I am probably gonna have to pay for
> > > saying this, but IE5 is a wholelot better browser.
> > >
>
> Well I have seen people with IE 5.5 trying to uninstall to get
> back to 5, but the 5 I saw working crashed about every
> quarter-hour. Netscape for Windows seems to work better than
> Netscape for linux, and I find Mozilla better in some regards but
> way way too "heavy" (Cluttered screen and slow) Netscape 6 Beta
> was far worse. I think AOL may manage to do what Microsoft and
> others could not--kill Netscape if they continue the direction.
>
> Compared to either of these Behemoths (IE or Netscape), Konqueror
> is light, fast, sleek, and can open sites that would freeze
> Netscape128 java-enabled in its tracks. I don't like IE for a
> LOT of reasons, and I think the best ever windows98 program
> developed is ie-off.exe because win98 runs 20-30% faster on other
> apps when msie code is disabled (and seems to crash less). Of
> course I have left all that behind me, now. If it doesn't run on
> linux these days, I don't use it.
>
> Anyway, Konqueror still crashes too often to be mainstream,
> (about the same as MSIE 5.5).
>
> Civileme
>
> >
> > I find it's a genralized feeling, although I've never used it. I prefer
> > Mozilla but it still crashes too much.
> >
> > L
> >
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