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Mozilla kicks (i.e. ass)
mtcx:
I've been an IE user for a long time after switching from Netscape. It seemed cooler with the way everything was set up. Then I just tried Mozilla. I love it. It's got built in pop-up blocking and tabbed windows. My only complaint is that I can't get a Google toolbar for it (I like the Search Site, Pull Up First Result, and Up buttons), that's mostly why I switched back to IE. I have a great distaste for Microsoft and its practices and am considering trying Linux soon. I'm not an idiot MS supportor (well.. I'm at least not an MS supporter). I'm just wondering why Internet Explorer is deemed such a bad browser. Its a whole lot easier to design for (I'm still having trouble getting Mozilla to make two table rows touch).
jtpenrod:
quote:I'm just wondering why Internet Explorer is deemed such a bad browser. Its a whole lot easier to design for
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In the first place, IE is responsible for about 90% of the instability of Winders. When I used IEradicator to get the damn thing off my Win 95 system, I had far fewer crashes. I've used various browsers: Mozilla, Konqueror, Galeon, Opera, Netscape as well as IE. In my experience, IE is the sloooooooowest browser I've ever used. When I was using Win 95 exclusively, I didn't notice since I didn't know any better. After seeing Mozilla on Linux, IE just drove my crazy waiting for web pages to load. Another problem with it is shitty fonts. Lousey fonts are a GNOME problem. They just look rough. Well, using IE, on an IE-friendly web site, the fonts didn't look any better than using Galeon on Red Hat 7.2. (KDE doesn't seem to have this problem with fonts). IE also fills up your HD with all sorts of crap. See the featured article about the hidden files. Use IE for any length of time, and you'll accumulate literally hundreds of megabytes of garbage. When I still had my old system and Win 95, it took me over twelve minutes to delete all those files. That's rediculous, and no one other than Macro$uck could ever hope to get away with offering such a POS. Lastly, sure it's easy to design for. That's all part of the grand Macro$uck plan: make IE, and the rest of the Windows platform, easy to design for and write apps. That way, the developers get sucked in and find themselves locked in. Sort of like how drug dealers will give you a free taste or two, till you're hooked.
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pkd_lives:
Ahh...but.
I have the worst misery of all. At work I use that uncassifiable OS MisEry. And I immediatly installed Mozilla. HA HA. Trouble is it runs like a pig, Now this ain't so on any other winders system. Does anyone know how to beef it up, slow start-up is the main prob. Can't make too many changes. Gonna try Opera on it instead. This is one of only a few times Mozilla has let me down. The other being the Checkout on Filemaker.com (A site that is affiliated - part owned? - by Apple!). Mozilla is awesome, so is Opera, hell I prefer using Kamelion to IE.
Calum:
mozilla 1.0 (release candidate 3, NOT stable version) works great on my home winME laptop (for windows this is :( ), and so does Opera 6.03, both are recommended, however you needn't really get opera if you have mozilla in my opinion. I found thaT 'stable' windows version crashed a lot on winME. Thos eare my thoughts...
AlexMax:
quote:Originally posted by Windows XP User #5225982375:
Gay sex, that is.
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You don't even know how it even works, you fucking 12 year old. Grow the fuck up and get off our forums.
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