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One thing IE does that Mozilla doesnt
« on: 3 May 2003, 17:48 »
Some people have asked IE enthusists what it can do that Mozilla doesnt.

I have found one of these things...
(Well I found out about it)

IE CRASHES ON A MALFORMED INPUT QUERY...
see this page in IE (4.0, 5.0, 5.5, 6.0)
http://vibrantlogic.com/new.html

No ActiveX, JavaScript, ect...

See the source.

INTERN3T ExPl)rA is jus S000 muc betta then MoziLa

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« Reply #2 on: 3 May 2003, 20:18 »
didnt notice the dupe, oh well

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« Reply #3 on: 4 May 2003, 08:39 »
IE for mac doesn't crash, just shows a text box like any other browser.  Didn't bother to test it on WIndows

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« Reply #4 on: 4 May 2003, 21:54 »
IE runs Active X, unlike Mozilla.  Active X is M$'s propriatary software.  It might be illegal to make it run on anything other than IE.  Active X is dangerous, it can contain viruses that would have a hayday with your PC.  Applets, which run like Active X but on any browser, do not have the same security problems.

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« Reply #5 on: 4 May 2003, 10:41 »
How come Mozilla Dosen't come with Java Plugins.

I thought Sun would be OK with something like that.

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« Reply #6 on: 5 May 2003, 12:58 »
quote:
Originally posted by Doctor V:
IE runs Active X, unlike Mozilla.  Active X is M$'s propriatary software.  It might be illegal to make it run on anything other than IE.  Active X is dangerous, it can contain viruses that would have a hayday with your PC.  Applets, which run like Active X but on any browser, do not have the same security problems.


Microsoft doesn't need to worry about anyone stealing ActiveX technology. No one is that dumb.

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« Reply #7 on: 6 May 2003, 01:17 »
quote:
Originally posted by suselinux:
How come Mozilla Dosen't come with Java Plugins.

I thought Sun would be OK with something like that.



The windows version of mozilla does come with Sun's Java plugin.

I guess the linux one doesn't in order to giv the user a choice between Sun and Blackdown.
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« Reply #8 on: 6 May 2003, 03:38 »
quote:
Originally posted by Billy Gates: Mac Comrade Captain:
IE for mac doesn't crash, just shows a text box like any other browser.  Didn't bother to test it on WIndows


True. Only Windows versions of IE crash, from version 4.0 to 6.0. Don't have to worry though. M$ will fix this bug eventually in let's say another 7 years from now.   :D

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« Reply #9 on: 6 May 2003, 03:53 »
IE is a homo name!
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« Reply #10 on: 7 May 2003, 06:33 »
quote:
Originally posted by suselinux:
How come Mozilla Dosen't come with Java Plugins.

I thought Sun would be OK with something like that.


Perhaps to save on the download size?

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« Reply #11 on: 7 May 2003, 13:53 »
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How come Mozilla Dosen't come with Java Plugins.

I thought Sun would be OK with something like that.
Sun is OK with that. I could download Java plug-ins, however, with dial-up, it takes too damn long and I don't need them bad enough to wait over an hour for them to load up.
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« Reply #12 on: 7 May 2003, 15:51 »
well i reckon there is no reason to make it needlessly hard for linux users. why don't they make a linux version with sun java built in et c and give you the choice?

the sun virtual machine installer is not very good even when installed directly from sun's binary, it leaves you to put the java dir in your path yourself.
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« Reply #13 on: 12 May 2003, 00:22 »
I'm not sure I follow the argument.  Mozilla doesn't come with the latest java plugin?  I am using Mozilla 1.0.2 and I was asked to download jre140_01i.xpi java plugin to view a page linked to this site.

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« Reply #14 on: 12 May 2003, 21:31 »
I couldn't get that little exploit to work on IE 6.1.  I guess either they finally fixed it, or it's just not working for me.

IE uses plugins just like any other browser, although IE comes w/ M$ own Java, etc. (inferior proprietary nonsense).

The only plugins that you really need to download for Mozilla is Flash and Java, after that it should run fine for you.  I suggest you update to the latest stable though (1.3.1).  One of these days Mozilla will come w/ the plugins built in, but it would be a larger download.
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