Oddly, I have had the exact opposite experience: offline, IE 4 is deadly
slow on my Mac 8500 running OS8.1, while NS 4 is very fleet-footed and a
pleasure to use. I wonder if there's some difference between the G3 and
8500 architecture that would account for the diffference.
Suz
Barry wrote:
>Amazingly, and much to my chagrin <G>, MS IE v4.01 for the Mac has proven
>to be stable and quite functional. It works well. And it pains me to say
>that! ;-)
>
>I also find Communicator to be slower than IE in downloading pages and in
>loading pages from my hard drive, so slow it's sometimes painful. A web
>page on my hard drive that is, say, 40Kb total size (images and HTML) can
>take up to 10 seconds to display (I emphasize I'm talking about loading a
>local page!). In IE it's just a few seconds. And I'm running a very fast
>Mac. There is no excuse for Communicator to be so slow.
>
>Frankly, I find Communicator v4 for the Mac to be pretty poor. It was much
>better on my PC. But it seems that not everyone using Communicator on a Mac
>shares my experience. I don't have an explanation for this.
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