From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 2 12: 7:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from atkielski.com (atkielski.com [161.58.232.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D381337B41B for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 12:07:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by atkielski.com (8.11.6) id g32K77M17735; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 22:07:07 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <007701c1da81$f79ad3c0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Daniel O'Connor" Cc: References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020401153352.02b99760@nospam.lariat.org><4.3.2.7.2.20020401184152.00e3ed10@nospam.lariat.org> <002d01c1da0d$f4043130$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <1017730532.71119.122.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> Subject: Re: Anti-Unix Site Runs Unix Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 22:07:06 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Daniel writes: > I can't believe people find MSIE better than > Moz/Galeon/etc. I haven't tried these others. Since MSIE was easy to find and does everything I require, I feel no desire to try dozens of different browsers in search of "the best." > (Try Kmeleon - same engine as moz in a tiny > download for windows). Why? > IE 5.5 is OK, but not great, it crashes more > often than Moz/Galeon but less than Netscape. MSIE 6.0 almost never crashes at all. I do have all the active content turned off, though (for security reasons, not for reasons of reliability). > I have yet to see a way in IE to selectivly > disable active content without it asking you > stupid questions like "Would you like to run > scripts on this page?" - there is no 'more info' > button, or a check box or anything! Yes, I've found that to be a serious oversight myself. Supposedly the administrator (whoever that is) can somehow define safe and unsafe active components with some sort of kit, but I've never been able to find out exactly how that works. > Dumb.. No pop-up blocking either. Agreed. But I usually run with Javascript turned off, which helps. > I also really _love_ how IE downloads plugins > for you and THEN asks you if you want to > install them. You can turn that off. I have. > Try installing Office 2k on a Windows 95 PC > and watch it spend 20-30 minutes installing > extra crap on your system and rebooting a few > times before it can even _start_ the office > install. Yech. I run Office 97. None of the more recent versions ever offered anything I needed (even Office 97 has about ten times what I require), so I've never upgraded. In fact, I hardly ever use Office at all, except for a few Excel sheets that are very simple. I use Quark for all word processing. > BTW I found NS6 for windows sucked pretty > hard, but 6.1 is better. Netscape has blown it too many times, and I'm no longer interested in checking over and over to see if they've finally got it right. The only other browser I ever run besides MSIE is Opera. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message