Tangent 21 - Just browsing...

Posted by
Lioness

Posted on
00:44
Nov 15 2002

Just browsing...

...to find out which internet browser people use?

I stick with IE, although I know Rob tends to use both to check whether his websites will work in both Internat Explorer and Netscape.

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Stoo There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.

Mainly relying on IE6 until Mozilla releases a stable version which works on my system without locking up, or not exiting properly. Any web dev stuff I do, I check it in both IE and Netscape/Mozilla, and any other browsers I can find..

Posted: 00:48 Nov 15 2002

Samphirette To you I guess I'm just a clown who picks you up each time you're down

I use IE6

I've tried using netscape at other people's houses but didn't like it. I guess you just get used to what you know.

Posted: 00:59 Nov 15 2002

Milky "Busted - Now that you're gone, I'm sleeping with the light on..." Pof, 2005

IE for me as well.....Are Microsoft still paying a monthly fine to Netscape for bundling IE with Windows??

Posted: 01:19 Nov 15 2002

White Hart So long, and thanks for all the fish.

IE - I used to use Netscape years ago when I was at uni (back in the dark ages when the Internet was in its infancy), but since then all the computers I've used have IE bundled in so it's just easier.

Posted: 07:06 Nov 15 2002

Ming I am not expendable, I am not stupid and I am not going

IE 6 on my home machines, IE 5 on my work laptop (stone-age primitive - still running NT 4!) and Xiino 1.0 on my Palm.

Posted: 07:38 Nov 15 2002

Lori You wear guilt like shackles on your feet, like a halo in reverse.

IE5 at work and Mozilla at home.

Posted: 10:19 Nov 15 2002

The Noid This must be that Woodstock place mom and dad are always talking about

Galeon (gecko/mozilla based browser) at work and home. I do check my work in IE 5.0, 5.5 and 6 once in a while to see what bugs in IE need working around...

Posted: 11:00 Nov 15 2002

gobstopper Eventually, I'll think of something witty to put here ;-)

For the past couple of weeks, I have been running a product called "Smart Explorer" which my brother told me about.

Seems to work just like IE (and seems to have inherited all of my IE settings), but the main difference is that it manages to stop 95% of those annoying pop-up adverts from appearing.

Bliss.

Posted: 12:06 Nov 15 2002

Julz "As God once said, and I think Rightly.." (Margaret Thatcher)

Mozilla. Because it *finally* seems to work as reliably as IE6 for me and has some very neat extra features, like tabbed browsing, that actually make the switch worthwhile, not just unpainful.

Because I know there'll be doubters: www.xulplanet.com/ndeakin/arts/reasons.html - 101 things Mozilla can do that IE can't.

Posted: 13:26 Nov 15 2002

Callum Bianca loves you

Netscape, Mozilla and IE of varying versions both at home and work. Also Opera and a custom browser at work.

I default to Netscape at work, and IE at home, using the others for testing or for specific jobs.

Posted: 16:15 Nov 15 2002

Whistler "I wonder wonder why the wonder falls. I wonder why the wonder falls on me. I wonder wonder why the wonder falls, with everything I touch and hear and see."

IE6

Posted: 19:07 Nov 15 2002

Velvet Glove

by Whistler
IE6

Yeps same for me too

Posted: 19:25 Nov 15 2002

misskittyfantastic

I have Mozilla at home, but I have to use IE for some stuff, coz Mozilla won't do it, like adding content to my website-Mozilla doesn't wanna know

Posted: 01:05 Nov 16 2002

Tycho As Emily Bronte once put it: "Wtf?"

IE6 at the mo' but I think I'm going to have another go at Opera once I get broadband.

I don't really feel like downloading the JVM over dialup.

I might have a look at some of the Linux browsers after broadband as well.

Anyone got any reccomendations? 'm currentlymrunning the default install of Red Hat 7.2 on my other comp.

(Edited by Tycho 16/11/2002 01:29)

Posted: 01:27 Nov 16 2002

Vinnie Just because you don't beleive in something, doesn't mean it's not true.

IE6 @ Home
IE5.5 @ Work (For compatibility testing)

Also got Netscape 4.75 but have now stopped trying to get webpages to work properly on Netscape as less than 3% of people are still using netscape (Stats from my website traffic).

Posted: 11:42 Nov 25 2002

The Noid This must be that Woodstock place mom and dad are always talking about

by Tycho
Anyone got any reccomendations? 'm currentlymrunning the default install of Red Hat 7.2 on my other comp.

Galeon (http://galeon.sourceforge.net/) quite fast and very configurable... tabs rule.

Posted: 12:10 Nov 25 2002

The Noid This must be that Woodstock place mom and dad are always talking about

by Julz
Because I know there'll be doubters: www.xulplanet.com/ndeakin/arts/reasons.html - 101 things Mozilla can do that IE can't.

One of the coolest looking things that do NOT work in IE is:
www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/complexspiral/glassy.html
Make sure you view this page with Netscape... and the effect is 100% W3C-standard CSS1.

Posted: 12:19 Nov 25 2002