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Title: Netscape 7.0 is father of IE 6.0
Post by: swapnil on 5 April 2003, 08:56
Hi frieends.
I used IE all along.Recently i baought Internet service and installed Netscape 7.0(i am writing this on it!)
Netscape is fastest web browser unlike dumb IE which opens anything .Listen to me those who strill use Ie.Throw it away.se it only for Windows updating(which is no way replacement for Ctrl+Alt+Del)
Netscape Rulz!!
Title: Netscape 7.0 is father of IE 6.0
Post by: Fett101 on 5 April 2003, 22:29
Your post. Just so wrong. Not because of IE playa hating, but because of everything else.

[ April 05, 2003: Message edited by: fett101 ]

Title: Netscape 7.0 is father of IE 6.0
Post by: Faust on 5 April 2003, 15:10
netscape sucks nearly as bad as IE...
Title: Netscape 7.0 is father of IE 6.0
Post by: Pantso on 5 April 2003, 16:02
If you think that Netscape rules, then you haven't used Mozilla (http://www.mozilla.org), which is the driving force behind the Netscape browser.   ;)
Title: Netscape 7.0 is father of IE 6.0
Post by: Faust on 5 April 2003, 16:16
Nice to see at least that you dont use IE.   ;)
Title: Netscape 7.0 is father of IE 6.0
Post by: Calum on 5 April 2003, 16:47
just two days ago, a mate of mine said he had "problems" with my website. i replied "are you using IE? If so can i convince you to use a decent browser such as mozilla or phoenix?" and he basically replied later in the day saying "now using mozilla, it's great, any idea what's wrong with IE?", which was the golden opportunity to move in for the kill. he's already said he's interested in ditching windows (no prompting from me)

what i'm getting at is, don't poopoo somebody for saying netscape rules, welcome to the board, swapnil, hope you have a chance to try a lot of other non microsoft equivelants.
Title: Netscape 7.0 is father of IE 6.0
Post by: Pantso on 5 April 2003, 16:54
quote:
Originally posted by Calum: crusader for peace & freedom:
what i'm getting at is, don't poopoo somebody for saying netscape rules, welcome to the board, swapnil, hope you have a chance to try a lot of other non microsoft equivelants.


Certainly! Using a non-IE browser is definitely a big step forward! I just wish more and more people started using alternative browsers for starters.
Title: Netscape 7.0 is father of IE 6.0
Post by: DJ on 5 April 2003, 22:22
Yes IE does suck, I laugh at my roomate everytime he sends me a link that exploits IE by opening up 500 cmd prompts or going into some endless java sprawl because they never work, well not on my browser anyway.

Dj
Title: Netscape 7.0 is father of IE 6.0
Post by: edisav on 5 April 2003, 22:41
Too bad that most websites support Exploder and Netscape exclusively. This is why I rely heavily on Netscape.

I've called my bank and other places where I can't use other browser (like Konqueror) and was told that for "security reasons" they only stick to IE or Netscape. I told those dumbfound stupid fuckheads that if they're concerned about security, they ought to block Exploder.
Title: Netscape 7.0 is father of IE 6.0
Post by: silentwarrior on 6 April 2003, 00:37
Phoenix is best browser..but it's needs to install all plugins when you start with it..like flash, java , real, win media player,,ets..but afterall it's best...it stops pop ups. good bug handling. good speed.
Title: Netscape 7.0 is father of IE 6.0
Post by: Doctor V on 6 April 2003, 07:39
quote:
Originally posted by xinix:
Too bad that most websites support Exploder and Netscape exclusively. This is why I rely heavily on Netscape.

I've called my bank and other places where I can't use other browser (like Konqueror) and was told that for "security reasons" they only stick to IE or Netscape. I told those dumbfound stupid fuckheads that if they're concerned about security, they ought to block Exploder.



"security reasons"  what so they don't let other browsers go to their website because they think its not safe for them to do so?  Dumb!  Having people in charge of IT who have that little knowledge of what internet security is is a real security breach.

edit:
Oh, and swapnil, go get Mozilla 1.3.  Netscape 7.0 is only a AOL sponsored version of Mozilla 1.02.

[ April 05, 2003: Message edited by: Doctor V ]

Title: Netscape 7.0 is father of IE 6.0
Post by: avello500 on 6 April 2003, 15:17
i was talking to a person at one of my credit card companies, she suggested that i use the internet to take of what i needed to. i told her about the actual security of it all because of m$ shit, by the time i was i was done you could hear the fear in her voice.
nothing like a guppie realizing how many sharks are out there  lol
Title: Netscape 7.0 is father of IE 6.0
Post by: devlkore on 10 April 2003, 02:59
*cough*use opera*cough*
Title: Netscape 7.0 is father of IE 6.0
Post by: Doogee on 10 April 2003, 17:40
*cough*or don't*cough*as*cough*everyone*cough*knows*cough*mozilla*cough*is*cough*better*cough*
Title: Netscape 7.0 is father of IE 6.0
Post by: Calum on 10 April 2003, 18:45
mozilla is indeed better, and if you install the xulplanet.com prefbar it has all the features that opera has. also, mozilla is open source and it overtook opera in the "better browser" stakes about 1 1/2 to 2 years ago. *hak, cough, splutter*
Title: Netscape 7.0 is father of IE 6.0
Post by: snifftheglove on 10 April 2003, 19:38
Opera has beautiful skins though!
Title: Netscape 7.0 is father of IE 6.0
Post by: Refalm on 10 April 2003, 20:39
And so does Windows XP. But if I have to choose between something that looks good, but sucks (Windows XP) or look reasonable and kicks ass (GNU/Linux), I'd choose the second one.
Title: Netscape 7.0 is father of IE 6.0
Post by: Calum on 10 April 2003, 22:20
mozilla's skins are almost as good as operas and definitely as varied.
Title: Netscape 7.0 is father of IE 6.0
Post by: Pantso on 10 April 2003, 22:37
quote:
Originally posted by devlkore:
*cough*use opera*cough*


Mozilla is definitely better as is any other browser that uses the Gecko rendering engine, like Camino, Phoenix etc. Opera and IE suck at "positioning" and use too many proprietary filters. On the other hand any browser based on Gecko will get the job right!   ;)
Title: Netscape 7.0 is father of IE 6.0
Post by: jasonlane on 11 April 2003, 05:49
IE??? Is a piece of crap, no doubt about it, it has to be one of the most unreliable browsers out there. It's the bain of my life, I guarantee that if I'm developing a site it will work on everything else except IE, it''s a fucking waste of hard drive. OK point in case:

Developed an interface that usd linked CSS to change the style of rollover, so on "hover" the link becomes italic, Moz, Safari, Opera etc... no problems. IE, no it can't do that because say an italic verdana 12px font is NOT the same as verdana 12px regular.

Microsoft sucks, boycot M$, do not let them win.  :mad:
Title: Netscape 7.0 is father of IE 6.0
Post by: buzza24 on 24 April 2003, 03:07
quote:
Originally posted by xinix:
Too bad that most websites support Exploder and Netscape exclusively. This is why I rely heavily on Netscape.

I've called my bank and other places where I can't use other browser (like Konqueror) and was told that for "security reasons" they only stick to IE or Netscape. I told those dumbfound stupid fuckheads that if they're concerned about security, they ought to block Exploder.



That's funny. For I know a person who actually use nothing but IE for internet banking and general browsing and says "The updates will keep the browser nice and sercuer" lol. I have tried to convert him to Mozilla or at least Netscape, but he just won't budge.

Later,
Buzza24
Title: Netscape 7.0 is father of IE 6.0
Post by: theangelofdeath69 on 28 April 2003, 14:22
Well, the only reason that I use Explorer is because I have no choice.  It is the ONLY browser that supports Zone.com

Before you ask, I play AC, and that is (in reality) NOT a microsoft product

Unless someone can tell me of any other browser that works perfectly at starting my game?
Title: Netscape 7.0 is father of IE 6.0
Post by: agentzmith on 30 May 2003, 02:50
Yeah-I`ve tried a few browsers lately.Opera`s more fun to use than most.But I used the latest Mozilla build and it seems faster than any other browser I`ve tried.Being a beta, it did have it`s faults which is understandable.I stopped using IE some time ago...
Title: Netscape 7.0 is father of IE 6.0
Post by: Faust on 30 May 2003, 21:48
zone.com is a microsoft address, that's why.
(http://zone.msn.com)
Trust msn to not make their sites standards compliant.  :rolleyes:   Hey does anyone know how to "misreport" your browser?  I wonder if we could trick zone.com into thinking we were using IE.  It would probably work then.  ;)
Title: Netscape 7.0 is father of IE 6.0
Post by: avello500 on 30 May 2003, 10:59
what you want is the prefab bar.
it does alot of things, one of which is to mask your browser.
i dont have a link but i found it on this forum so a search would yield results.
Title: Netscape 7.0 is father of IE 6.0
Post by: Faust on 30 May 2003, 11:03
A lot of these forums got deleted by X11 a while back didn't they?  I think I'll check google, much quiker anyway.  (http://smile.gif)
Title: Netscape 7.0 is father of IE 6.0
Post by: Kupotek on 30 May 2003, 13:00
http://xulplanet.com/downloads/prefbar/ (http://xulplanet.com/downloads/prefbar/)

I use Mozilla.  Never used Linux but Ive been moving away  from  microsoft for  a long while. We have linux  boxes in the kitchern and I telnet in  to coompile in C. I use  Mac  primarily, and OSX, but I  load up Darwin,  OS X on the laptop as well.
 (http://smile.gif)
Title: Netscape 7.0 is father of IE 6.0
Post by: choasforages on 30 May 2003, 15:29
konqueror has this ability. goto the site in question and click tools ---> change browser identification.
have fun with this
Title: Netscape 7.0 is father of IE 6.0
Post by: DJ on 30 May 2003, 17:15
Has anyone tried Mozilla Firebird (still in beta 0.6)? I just finished installing it to a zip disk to run when I am at work. It's pretty fast, and comes with a nice smooth default skin and lots of customizing options. Just type 'about:config' in the address bar and it takes you to a huge list of customizing options, and it also worked for my bank's website which "requires" IE with no ad ons or plugins

Dj

[ May 30, 2003: Message edited by: Engineer ]

Title: Netscape 7.0 is father of IE 6.0
Post by: baggab on 30 May 2003, 20:03
I'm using Mozilla, recently upgraded to 1.3

I found Opera to be cool, but I didn't like the banner.  Is that still part of the free version?

If Netscape 7.0 is like 6.0, its too bloated.

Keep IE around to poke fun at.  But never use it to browse--certainly not internet banking.

BTW: about those 600,000 suckers who installed XP security updates and couldn't log on to the web due to conflicts with Symantec software.  

69whatthef*ck69 are you listening.
Title: Netscape 7.0 is father of IE 6.0
Post by: Calum on 30 May 2003, 22:38
quote:
Originally posted by Engineer:
Has anyone tried Mozilla Firebird (still in beta 0.6)? I just finished installing it to a zip disk to run when I am at work. It's pretty fast, and comes with a nice smooth default skin and lots of customizing options. Just type 'about:config' in the address bar and it takes you to a huge list of customizing options, and it also worked for my bank's website which "requires" IE with no ad ons or plugins

Dj

[ May 30, 2003: Message edited by: Engineer ]



yes i have been using it since version 0.1 and it kicks every other browser's ass. also the prefbar appears to work in it on all versions i have tried despite xulplanet apologising profusely that it didn't.

get mozillafirebird, it's the future. it really is too, mozilla are ditching mozilla in favour of firebird + a modular suite of chat/email etc programs.
Title: Netscape 7.0 is father of IE 6.0
Post by: Visentinel on 31 May 2003, 17:24
LOL you use windows, but hate IE !?

Sigh  :rolleyes: