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An interesting little program...
iancom:
I must admit to having only briefly tried Opera, so I don't really know about that.
When I'm not using Lynx (looks to passers-by at work like you're doing something complicated and technical when you're really reading SlashDot...) I use Mozilla on all my desktop environments including Windows 2000 and 98.
Very few crashes (though not unknown on Win or Linux) and does everything I want from a browser. And this is before they've even released a 1.0 version!
One of the things I like the most about it is the ability to open up links in a new 'tab' within your existing browser window rather than ending up with twenty browser windows cluttering up your desktop.
http://www.mozilla.org/ for all platforms...
K-Meleon is also quite a nice small-footprint browser based on the Mozilla rendering engine if you've got a low-spec PC...
ISX:
What does this do exactly? It removes IE, 6 too? And it removes all the shit with it like the hidden files?
iancom:
In most cases, simply not using Internet Explorer should deal with your hidden files... it can't save them out of your reach if they're never going through IE in the first place.
Of course it's better for you to get rid of IE altogether since its security vulnerabilities are all still there lurking in some obscure code running in the background. And of course you can never quite tell when it'll decide to re-associate itself as the default browser again.
Calum:
I think to be on the safe side:
1. remove IExplore with this little IEradicator program
2. Get a printout of the r1ddler's secret files article and follow the instructions step by step
3. get Opera, or Mozilla or whatever else.
This way, even if the hidden files are still kicking around after step 1, step 2 will sort them out and no mistake.
I recommend Opera. On windows (but not on Mac) it has that excellent thing that IanC mentions where you only get 1 window, but each new window opens in a "tab", if you've ever used M$ Word (shudder), then you are familiar with this idea.
Haven't tried Lynx or Mozilla yet, but it might be worth getting them in addition to Opera, since as Karen says, the free version of Opera has a banner ad in the toolbar, which can get a bit annoying, although it never bothered me much...
Opera saves a "mystery history" file too, but it is VERY easy to manage and VoidMain and a couple of others answer this query in another forum somewhere on here...
dbl221:
Hey gang for some reason Galeon is having difficulty acessing .org sites......Mozilla of course has no such troubles....????
What gives.
Lynx sucks........thats all I have to say ;)
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