Notice, of course, that you're comparing IE running on WINDOWS (which, by
the way, is a Microsoft product) to Netscape running on LINUX. How do you
know that Microsoft won't screw their browser up when they port it just
like Netscape did?
Is anyone out there running IE on Solaris or HP-UX? If so, what's the
verdict?
DvB
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Anthony Huereca wrote:
> IE may crash every once in a while, but it's a whole whole lot stabilier than
> Linux's Netscape. That thing crashes about once a hour, whereas IE might crash
> once a day at most. Sure, it doesn't bring down the whole system when Netscape
> crashes, but it is an annoyance and sometimes after it crashes, I get repeated
> errors about bookmarks being reloaded or something like that, which is also
> really annoying. I'd take IE over Netscape anyday with it's better features and
> stability.
>
> > You must have been charmed or blessed then, or had a priest bestow special
> > blessings on your copy of IE5 when you played a role playing game, or
> > something. After all, I can think of no *rational* explanation for your
> > experiences, given the frequency of IE5 crashing or otherwise misbehaving
> > on most installations. Mine, for example. True, it *does* crash less than
> > IE4 did -- even the IE5 *beta* crashed less. But it is still crash prone
> > like any M$ software.
>
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