From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 1 17:59:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A22C1523A for ; Fri, 1 Oct 1999 17:59:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA37622; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 10:29:18 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 10:29:18 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Thomas Uhrfelt , jack Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: MS Internet Explorer For FreeBSD Message-ID: <19991002102917.I496@freebie.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Thomas Uhrfelt on Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 05:12:40PM +0200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Friday, 1 October 1999 at 14:28:52 -0400, jack wrote: >On Friday, 1 October 1999 at 17:12:40 +0200, Thomas Uhrfelt wrote: >>>>> One of the reasons i'm doing this is because Netscape dosen't >>>>> work for me quite right and it doesent have all of IE's featues >>> >>> Bugtraq has listed quite a few IE "features" lately. :) >>> >>>>> when my kid goes to this site (www.bolt.com) netscape core dumps >>>>> and just leaves the system hanging there >>>> >>>> tried it here too, and it crashes my browser but system still works >>>> fine...have you tried the site using Win-Netscape? >>> >>> Turn off java and javascript and it comes up fine. >> >> I am not gioing into the IE vs NS debate, but don't you think it's funny >> while you are promoting NS in favor of IE - you tell him to fix a bug in NS >> by saying the same things as MS when they "fix" bugs in IE .. "No problem, >> just turn off...(BLAH BLAH" ;-) .. > > I have come across several non-standard (read M$ "enhanced") java > apps and scripts that choke NS. I have not looked at what that > page uses but based on the ones I have looked into...... I think the fact is that there is no good web browser available. I think it's a sorry state of affairs for what is both relatively simple and extremely important to a large majority of users. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message