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Why do you use MS Internet Explorer..?
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Nov 7, 2003
I played with it a few months ago (circa Mozilla 1.2), but it was seriously flaky. Not only did it fail to function at least two times out of three, but it would take Mozilla down with it. 
I'm not rejecting the possibility that it's been fixed, just advising caution. 
Why do you use MS Internet Explorer..?
HappyDude Posted Nov 11, 2003
Mozilla is rock solid, were you using a beta/alpha version?
11-10-2003: K-Meleon 0.8 released
http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
Why do you use MS Internet Explorer..?
fathead Posted Nov 11, 2003
I gave up on IE, infact i all but quit M$, mozilla and it's variations are much nicer. netscape was good but is now full of aol spyware. when a page doesn't work right 9 times out of ten it is because the webmaster was to lazy to make sure it works outside of IE. When that is the case i don't revisit, if they are trying to sell, i buy elseware. Web designer need to take heed, not everyone is oblivious to the fact that M$ makes second rate products. As there market share slips this will become more ovious as they rely on unifomity. once people see the brighter side they will reaize the sh*t they have been putting up with. How many people have switched to mozilla or opera,then returned to IE? i wouldn't think many
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Nov 11, 2003
HD, Mozilla wasn't to blame; it was the NewsMonster plugin that was flaky. 
Fathead, I'm a Mozilla (Firebird) user; I still use IE, but only as a handy FTP client that lets you drag-'n-drop in Windoze.
Why do you use MS Internet Explorer..?
Apparition™ (Mourning Empty the best uncle anyone could wish for) Posted Nov 11, 2003
That looks good but my fav is still 'flash click to get'. It turns all flash animations into buttons that you click IF you want to see the animation.
Combining that with my add blocking proxy makes the web look a hell of a lot better 
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Ion the Naysayer Posted Nov 11, 2003
Speaking of blocking... Picked this up on Slashdot...
http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5105139.html?tag=nefd_top
Microsoft is patching Internet Explorer to block popups. Took long enough. Maybe they'll add full CSS2 support next.
Okay, I'll keep dreaming.
Why do you use MS Internet Explorer..?
Apparition™ (Mourning Empty the best uncle anyone could wish for) Posted Nov 11, 2003
Slashdot has banned my IP address here at work 
I consider the bare minimum for considering a browser to be tab support.
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HappyDude Posted Nov 12, 2003
Computers at Campaign HQ of US Presidential Hopeful Run Mozilla
http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=3954
Why do you use MS Internet Explorer..?
Apparition™ (Mourning Empty the best uncle anyone could wish for) Posted Nov 13, 2003
ah, my problem is bacause of the proxy and the fact that it's the only machine connected to the outside world.
Why do you use MS Internet Explorer..?
HappyDude Posted Nov 13, 2003
how about port forwarding using an ssh tunnel 
Why do you use MS Internet Explorer..?
Apparition™ (Mourning Empty the best uncle anyone could wish for) Posted Nov 13, 2003
the G rated answer to that is...
wanna race some snails?
I would browse through from home, but I have a happy marrige and so limit my surfing time at home.
Why do you use MS Internet Explorer..?
HappyDude Posted Nov 13, 2003
what's wrong wiv port forwarding
I do it myself sometimes
Why do you use MS Internet Explorer..?
Apparition™ (Mourning Empty the best uncle anyone could wish for) Posted Nov 13, 2003
I used to do it. But it would be faster to hand write my posting and send them by carrier pigeon.
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HappyDude Posted Nov 13, 2003
hmm... i don't suffer any appreciable speed loss when port forwarding, guess it all depends on the computer you are forwarding to ... in my case Dec Alphas that have a 155mb/s internet connection (put's my 1MB adsl line in perspective)
Why do you use MS Internet Explorer..?
Apparition™ (Mourning Empty the best uncle anyone could wish for) Posted Nov 13, 2003
all the forwarding places I've had access to are overseas with sucky bandwidth. Compared to the 2GB link here at work...
Why do you use MS Internet Explorer..?
HappyDude Posted Nov 13, 2003
look harder, good ones are out there -
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Apparition™ (Mourning Empty the best uncle anyone could wish for) Posted Nov 13, 2003
such as ????
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HappyDude Posted Nov 13, 2003
the one i use
http://sdf.lonestar.org/tour/2003/april2003.mpg
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HappyDude Posted Nov 24, 2003
World Summit on the future of the Internet
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/34163.html
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