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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: vyper on September 11, 2002, 11:06:43 am

Title: Browsers, who and why?
Post by: vyper on September 11, 2002, 11:06:43 am: I'm bored with Internet Explorer, so cast your ideas please as to what would be a good replacement. :D
Title: Browsers, who and why?
Post by: Styxx on September 11, 2002, 11:11:59 am: Lynx.
Title: Browsers, who and why?
Post by: Reppyboyo on September 11, 2002, 11:13:28 am: Aint that a deoderant?

Mozilla 1.1
Title: Browsers, who and why?
Post by: an0n on September 11, 2002, 11:13:34 am: Quote
Originally posted by Styxx
Lynx.
Yup. Or failing that: Win-LYNX
Title: Browsers, who and why?
Post by: Sandwich on September 11, 2002, 11:53:43 am: NetCaptor (http://www.netcaptor.com/)
Title: Browsers, who and why?
Post by: Stunaep on September 11, 2002, 11:57:01 am: Netscape 7. Got's a lot more stuff than any IE, and works with less jams.
Title: Browsers, who and why?
Post by: 01010 on September 11, 2002, 12:17:07 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Stunaep
Netscape 7. Got's a lot more stuff than any IE, and works with less jams.

Don't AOL have their hands in Netscapes pockets?
Title: Browsers, who and why?
Post by: HotSnoJ on September 11, 2002, 02:43:12 pm: never forget Opera. Sure it can't render like IE but sure beats the heck out of it in speed.
Title: Browsers, who and why?
Post by: Eishtmo on September 11, 2002, 06:36:37 pm: Quote
Originally posted by hotsnoj
never forget Opera. Sure it can't render like IE but sure beats the heck out of it in speed.

And mouse gestures!
Title: Browsers, who and why?
Post by: saturn114 on September 11, 2002, 06:37:11 pm: i use neoplanet my self
http://www.neoplanet.com myself cuz is a good replacement loads fast has a built in email client and is fully skinable :D:cool:
Title: Browsers, who and why?
Post by: Kamikaze on September 11, 2002, 06:43:17 pm: OPERA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D:D:D:D:D

or netcaptor, it's pretty good.
Title: Browsers, who and why?
Post by: Admiral LSD on September 12, 2002, 12:55:34 am: Bear in mind though that NetCaptor and NeoPlanet just sit over IE so if you're bored of IE you'll probably be bored of these two as well.

I'm going to go with all those that said Opera.
Title: Browsers, who and why?
Post by: Kamikaze on September 12, 2002, 01:00:32 am: Quote
Originally posted by Admiral LSD
Bear in mind though that NetCaptor and NeoPlanet just sit over IE so if you're bored of IE you'll probably be bored of these two as well.

well, I think netcaptor adds some needed functionality into IE ... mainly multiple windows in one and such. (edit: oops the thread was about boredom, nm :p)

I think I'll do a little chart for people types..

Newbies: IE ;)
Power Users: Opera
The paranoid: Lynx
The not too adventurous: Netcaptor
THe skinamatic: Neoplanet
The AOL fanatic: Netscape

that's what I think.... :D
Title: Browsers, who and why?
Post by: Admiral LSD on September 12, 2002, 01:18:24 am: Quote
Originally posted by Kamikaze
well, I think netcaptor adds some needed functionality into IE ... mainly multiple windows in one and such.

never mind the fact that they ripped that feature from Opera, as did Mozilla ;)
Title: Browsers, who and why?
Post by: Kazashi on September 12, 2002, 08:40:25 am: Here's another vote for Opera - multiple windows inside the browser, mouse gestures, often quick page loading, complaince with HTML standards (as opposed to IE standards).

I did give Mozilla a go when 1.0 was released, and tabbed browsing was nice, but it was too sluggish. Apparently later versions have fixed that somewhat, but Opera works just fine for now.
Title: Browsers, who and why?
Post by: Ashrak on September 12, 2002, 09:20:07 am: what mouse gestures?????
Title: Browsers, who and why?
Post by: an0n on September 12, 2002, 09:23:00 am: Cool People: Lynx
Normal People/Internet Whores: IE
Retards and Lamers: AOL 7.0
Title: Browsers, who and why?
Post by: Sandwich on September 12, 2002, 09:53:59 am: Quote
Originally posted by an0n
Cool People: Lynx

I have _got_ to find an article for you... :D
Title: Browsers, who and why?
Post by: Reppyboyo on September 12, 2002, 12:52:09 pm: Wots lynx? apart from a deoderant...
links plz ya got me interested :-/
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Post by: an0n on September 12, 2002, 12:52:44 pm: Lynx is a text-only browser.
http://lynx.browser.org
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Post by: an0n on September 12, 2002, 12:57:20 pm: http://www.fdisk.com/doslynx/wlynx/lynx_w32.2.8.2rel.1.zip
Title: Browsers, who and why?
Post by: Top Gun on September 12, 2002, 02:08:08 pm: Konqueror is pretty good but it's only for .nix
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Post by: Eishtmo on September 12, 2002, 07:54:06 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Ashrak
what mouse gestures?????

Under preferences, accessablity. Hold the right mouse button and shift left to go back a page, right to go forward, and the wheel to change windows (as long as there are no scroll bars).
Title: Browsers, who and why?
Post by: Admiral LSD on September 12, 2002, 08:47:20 pm: Of course, if you have something like a Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer you can use the thumb buttons to move back and forward, much less irritating than the stupid mouse gestures :D
Title: Browsers, who and why?
Post by: Stunaep on September 13, 2002, 11:19:10 am: Quote
Originally posted by Kazashi
Here's another vote for Opera - multiple windows inside the browser, mouse gestures, often quick page loading, complaince with HTML standards (as opposed to IE standards).

That's it! Netscape, your getting the BOOT.
Title: Browsers, who and why?
Post by: Stunaep on September 13, 2002, 11:35:51 am: I'm on Opera now. Five minutes into use, and I already prefer it to anything else. w00t!
Title: Browsers, who and why?
Post by: Admiral LSD on September 13, 2002, 01:36:15 pm: A couple of things about Opera: Press F12 and select "Identify as Opera" from the Quick Preferences menu. Don't want any sites getting the wrong idea now, do we? ;)

Second, if you have your Windows taskbar set to "auto hide" having the Opera taskbar at the default bottom location gets extremely irritating. That put me off Opera (I didn't know you could change it's location at the time, I only found out you could by accident) for ages because I was always causing my Windows taskbar to pop up over the Opera one. Right click a blank spot on the toolbar and select "Top"

Thirdly, go into the Preferences (Alt-P) and under History and Cache, make sure that it always checks for modified documents otherwise you'll have to hard refresh things like forums pages after you make a reply because it'll reload the cached copy instead of download the updated one automatically.

I think thats pretty much it for now...
Title: Browsers, who and why?
Post by: Jabu on September 13, 2002, 03:36:29 pm: I still prefer Mozilla. It can be a bit sluggish at times, but that's pretty much because it isn't integrated into Windows on the same level that IE is.

(Whoa, two posts in a go. Let's see if I can make a new record.)
Title: Browsers, who and why?
Post by: Ace on September 13, 2002, 10:25:49 pm: Opera, fast, reliable... and I need to get the latest patch... (it's that stable I even forget to do that)

The only problems I have with Opera are poorly designed pages, but I don't think any browser can fix that. :p
Title: Browsers, who and why?
Post by: Admiral LSD on September 14, 2002, 01:47:07 am: Quote
Originally posted by Jabu
I still prefer Mozilla. It can be a bit sluggish at times, but that's pretty much because it isn't integrated into Windows on the same level that IE is.

Neither is Opera and thats still faster than Mozilla :D