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250640 2004-07-08 04:05:00 I am looking for a free Alternative to Internet Explorer
Hopefully the program is also small
thewhiz (4002)
250641 2004-07-08 04:08:00 Mozilla or Firefox,sound like what you're after.Just bang either into Google
or someone here will have the site address.
Capt.Hook (5586)
250642 2004-07-08 04:14:00 try here (www.mozilla.org) for Mozilla

Just switched over to Mozilla myself and it is excellent compared to IE
andrew93 (249)
250643 2004-07-08 04:34:00 If you are wanting a smaller download, then I would recommend Firefox rather than Mozilla. Mozilla also has a built-in email suite which bulks it out somewhat. Mozilla Firefox is a standalone browser.

Mozilla Firefox (www.mozilla.org)

Although, either of these two browsers are often included on Computer magazine cover discs (including the NZ PC World discs) so have a look there first. Keep in mind the ones on the disc might be an older version. Firefox is up to ver 0.91 and Mozilla is ver 1.7.
Jen C (20)
250644 2004-07-08 06:05:00 Opera (http://www.opera.com/) is even smaller than Firefox if you download the non-Java version - just 3.4MB. If you have Sun Java already installed you won't need the the Java version and once you do have it you don't need to download the larger version again (until Java gets updated). ;-) Fire-and-Ice (3910)
250645 2004-07-08 06:32:00 > Mozilla Firefox is a standalone browser.

I have to agree with Jen C Mozilla Firefox is a Good browser :), I am even posting this from Mozilla Firefox as well

Also Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail client as well, & it is good too :)
stu120404 (268)
250646 2004-07-08 07:10:00 I've tried many other browsers, and I personally don't find them to be my cup of tea. Now I use MyIE2 (http://www.myie2.com). Note it still uses the main code from IE, so it isn't completly immune to IE specific worms, but it is faster, and that's what matters ;)

MM
Megaman (344)
250647 2004-07-08 08:32:00 > I've tried many other browsers, and I personally
> don't find them to be my cup of tea. Now I use
> MyIE2 (http://www.myie2.com). Note it still
> uses the main code from IE, so it isn't completly
> immune to IE specific worms, but it is faster, and
> that's what matters ;)


MyIE2 is now Maxthon. (www.maxthon.com) ;-)
Fire-and-Ice (3910)
250648 2004-07-08 09:05:00 Would just like to reinforce Fire-and-ice's statement concerning Opera, it is lean mean and does the job incredibly well. You have control over pop-up advertising as well. I don't use anything else. Give it a spin and make your own mind up. Best of luck
Tony S.
Tony S. (450)
250649 2004-07-08 09:14:00 Firefox looks better, runs much faster; I did a "website race" (clear the cache, open the same website in IE then in Firefox and Firefox did it in almost half the time! Opera is superfast aswell, but Firefox has better skins and I am posting from it right now. there is no waiting around while you click a link and IE does nothing for a few seconds (it matters on dial-up) fus1_n (3818)
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