Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 15:05:55 02/14/01
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On February 14, 2001 at 13:23:52, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>On February 14, 2001 at 01:24:33, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
>
>>On February 13, 2001 at 14:43:08, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>
>>>Actually Internet Explorer and Outlook ARE viruses (they are installed on your
>>>computer even if you don't want them, it is difficult to get rid of them, and
>>>they disturb your system big time, the only thing they do not do is to reproduce
>>>themselves, but somehow big brother has found other ways to spread the
>>>infection), and they both allow easy entry of other viruses on your PC.
>>
>>Part of the problem is that Win9x has to load a copy of IE if you have _any_
>>sort of "active" content in folders, desktop, etc. Then it has to load another
>>copy when you run IE to browse the web. It also has a copy of explorer running
>>which is the Windows shell. Windows Explorer (the file manager) seems to be
>>also a copy of this. So instead of loading the thing once (or maybe twice),
>>explorer/iexplore can be loaded several times on a Win9x system without being
>>realized. WinNT/2k doesn't appear to have this problem.
>>
>>>That makes a lot of reasons to buy 98lite as soon as possible in order to
>>
>>98Lite is very nice, actually. I would support that recommendation. But I
>>wouldn't recommend running Win9x in the first place. :)
>>
>>>remove them from your PC, and to use Netscape 4.7x.
>>
>>As much as I would like to agree with you, and as much as I dislike some of
>>Microsoft's stuff, I must say that in my experience, IE 5.x is a whole lot
>>better than Netscape 4.7x. It's faster, more stable, and seems to produce
>>better output on most webpages. (This is on Windows 2000, which in itself is
>>infinitely better than Win9x - Maybe on Win9x Netscape really is better...)
>>If you know what you're doing, you're in no more danger of getting a Virus by
>>using IE than you are by using Netscape or anything else, IMO.
>
>I tend to agree. Netscape is _horrible_. Try to read a _large_ message here,
>and insert comments all over the place. While you do this, watch your virtual
>memory used grow and grow and grow until netscape crashes due to insufficent
>memory. Poorest bit of programming I have seen.
>
>Also I have found lots of web sites that don't display correctly on netscape,
>but do display fine on IE. Of course this could be a "design" issue where
>Microsoft would like to see netscape dry up and blow away, but it is also a fact
>of life that you can't view all web sites using netscape. Linux or Windows
>doesn't change this either. My son tried to view his grades online during the
>Christmas break and we ran into this. My linux box displayed a blank page, my
>wifes win98 box did the same (both using netscape). When I tried IE on a hunch,
>it worked perfectly.
Maybe, but I personally don't care. If a site is designed so it cannot be viewed
by Netscape, I just ignore it.
I have been surfing the web for years with Netscape and visited thousands of
sites, and most of the time it works fine.
I don't think an objective comparison between IE and Netscape can be done. Both
products are almost at the same level, I would say. You cannot demonstrate that
one is superior.
Anyway the technical level is not my reference for choosing Netscape.
I have chosen Netscape because:
1) it does not come from Microsoft
2) it works fine for me
3) it has less security flaws than IE and Outlook
4) it is free
Christophe
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