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What browser are you using?
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 2:17 am
by sucinum
thats something im simply interested in. i was using ie 5.5 for a long time, but after i found out, there is no way to install SP2 for it anymore, which was needed for some security-update and i managed to crash it totally during that procedure, i was without a browser.
so i tried out mozilla and was VERY happy with tabbed browsing, but VERY unhappy with its speed and the fact, it couldnt read my ie-cookies.
now im using ie 6 with all patches and service packs and the "crazy browser" upgrade, which provides me with tabbed browing, a popupkiller and some other useful stuff.
if i forgot an important one in the poll, post it
i think editing a phpbb-poll crashes it (at least at an another board im using).
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 2:54 am
by copperman
I put my vote in other although to be honest
Slimbrowser is IE core, not tried Crazybrowser. btw all my buds are moving to it
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 2:53 pm
by beowuuf
What's this 'crazy browser' upgrade? I must admit the non-tab browsing is killing my resourses, so i was tempted to move to mozilla to get away fom ie 6 killing my machine so much
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 4:00 pm
by sucinum
the url is
http://www.CrazyBrowser.com
i personally like it very much, i can use the core (and cookies!) of IE combined with the comfort of other browsers. crazybrowser kills about 2-5% of my cpu-power (ok, thats 500 mhz) and needs about 30 mb of ram. thats more than mozilla, but it runs faster for that
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2003 1:03 am
by Guest
I used Crazy Browser, but I have switched to MyIE2
http://www.myie2.com/ which is even better with lots of useful features.
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2003 1:04 am
by ChristopheF
oops, I posted without being logged in...
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2003 11:27 am
by PicturesInTheDark
Too much effort installing other browsers since the use of IE is sort of implemented genetical knowledge by now... what great advantages can browsers give you if you only need to view various internet sites ? Or are there browsers killing spam and advertisements ?
Regards, PitD
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2003 12:46 pm
by sucinum
they are killing spam and advertisements, at least most of it
and these upgrades are easy to install and dont harm IE in any way
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2003 1:19 pm
by PicturesInTheDark
Ok. Installed crazy browser, will test it wfor a while. Looks nice though. Let's see if it's worth it.
Regards, PitD
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2003 1:59 pm
by beowuuf
and personally as someone that browses by opening multiple windows all the time (it's a disease) i find ie6 kills my cpu, AND seems to memory leak so eventually my poor win 98 system dies a death due to no resourses (even if no applications open!)
dunno if i can blame ie or 98 for that, but it's definitely all microsoft's fault!
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2003 2:56 pm
by cowsmanaut
win 98 is pretty bad as is. It's one of the versions still known to corrupt it's own dll's. It'd be my main advice to switch to 2k if you can.
Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2003 5:50 am
by copperman
Tried CrazyBrowser, still think the
SlimBrowser IE remodel is better.
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2003 12:00 am
by PicturesInTheDark
With Win98 you can't expect too much, Fuzzy. I have an old computer at home and some multiple windows (up to 6 or 7) work fine, but more won't go unnoticed.
Regards, PitD
Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2003 2:20 am
by Seeker19
Like PitD, I find my behavior ingrained by long experience with one browser...but in my case, it's Navigator, not IE. I managed to move from Lynx to Mosaic to Navigator years ago and have been happy ever since. While I have IE installed on my systems for site testing, I find the interface annoying and the security options not to my taste. It's amusing to me that, after all the hullabaloo, Microsoft was still able to engineer an almost complete turnover in how the non-AOL world browses the web in the course of about two years.
Seeker19