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| Thread ID: 29187 | 2003-01-12 22:52:00 | Semi OT - I want a new browser | Chilling_Silence (9) | Press F1 |
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| 113337 | 2003-01-12 22:52:00 | Ive been using IE 6 SP1, but it keeps crashing and taking out my start bar and other stuff when I kill the explorer process, Im just not a IE fan at the moment. Outlook Expres is nice though, but seems slow. I use it to download my hotmail folders :) Phoenix died when I udpated it, plus its got no email.. Im using NeoPlanet, but I cant get the email to work with hotmail... So if anybody could offer a suggestion for that, I'd give it a shot again. Opera, well, the latest is a Beta AFAIK and it crashed tons when I last used it. Netscape 8 (Or whatever they're at now), seems a bit like bloatware when I saw it last. I dont use a lot of extra feature like AIM and Real Player, or if I did, I'd download them myself. Im up for any opinions on this matter, or, the config for hotmail so I can use NeoPlanet, coz that seems to be great so far :) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 113338 | 2003-01-12 23:20:00 | Chilling with the amount of knowledge you have gained from this forum, surely you would know how to fix crashing browsers! Or any crashing programme for that fact. Why don't you just use OE as your email client and neoplanet as your Browser????? |
roofus (483) | ||
| 113339 | 2003-01-12 23:22:00 | OE also isn't slow. If your finding it slow, especially to load at startup then your OE is corrupted. OE is slower at downloading Hotmail stuff, but im sure your aware of that as its HTTP and is downloading active server pages, or what ever they are called. Still its quicker than actually going to the hotmail site |
roofus (483) | ||
| 113340 | 2003-01-13 00:09:00 | Yes, I know how to fix them, I've run the repair on OE/IE6, plus Im looking for something else.. I was just mainly wanting some opinions on Opera/Netscape :) Or, how to setup NeoPlanet, as Im currently using that with its email facility, and it works fine, hasnt crashed yet, and if it does, Im assuming it wont kill the explorer process. My problems.. I could probably fix, perhaps an un-install and re-install of IE6 would work, but Im not really using it, so why bother. Phoenix - I could go back to an older version, I've still got .40, but it has no email. I guess Im just asking for some feedback on Opera or Netscape then :-) I dont think there's any others out there that use email either are there? Probably a few smaller ones, and I'd like to keep browser/email in the one package. Just a thought :) Cheers Chilling_Silence |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 113341 | 2003-01-13 00:15:00 | Why not try out Mozilla. I run that on Linux and use it to access my Hotmail. If you haven't heard of Mozilla it's what NetScape is based off. Except NetScrape adds all the fancy wancy technoblabble which is slower at loading pages than Mozilla. | Kame (312) | ||
| 113342 | 2003-01-13 00:58:00 | You say Phoenix died when you updated it. Was that the 0.4 - 0.5 upgrade. Did you read the guidelines and see that you should kill your old profile otherwise you'd have problems? I use Phoenix and Mozilla (what Phoenix is built on). Don't go Netscape, it's just Mozilla with crap added on IMO. Just stick to Phoenix and Mozilla they're great. Mozilla Mail is awesome as well. |
-=JM=- (16) | ||
| 113343 | 2003-01-13 01:08:00 | A question (hope I'm not highjacking the post) Why does everyone seem to have more than one browser (I'm still using IE5.5) and how do you all decide which one you would use that day.I would just go eeny meeny miney mo. Maybe I should install Mozilla and have a new outlook on my internet experience. BALDY:-) |
Baldy (26) | ||
| 113344 | 2003-01-13 01:25:00 | Baldy, I thought you were a Netscape fan for some reason. I just prefer Mozilla (or Phoenix). Only use IE for sites where these browsers just don't work well due to bad website coding. *koff* chatf1 *koff* Also less viruses designed for mozilla mail. |
-=JM=- (16) | ||
| 113345 | 2003-01-13 01:26:00 | Chilling: Re your Hotmail problem - I read somewhere on this forum, within the last week, a comment that, if I remember correctly, you can only access the Hotmail POP server via M$ products, not eg 3rd party e-mail clients. I think it was in a thread about free POP services but a search on Hotmail should pull it up. Sorry, don't have time at the moment to do the search myself. | Robin S_ (86) | ||
| 113346 | 2003-01-13 01:44:00 | > Baldy, I thought you were a Netscape fan for some > reason. > > I just prefer Mozilla (or Phoenix). Only use IE for > sites where these browsers just don't work well due > to bad website coding. *koff* chatf1 *koff* > > Also less viruses designed for mozilla mail. Yes I did have it installed, but I have reformatted since then and didn't install it as I prefered IE. Plus after using it for a little while my initial impressions of it dimmed. After the reformat I didn't see the point in reinstalling. I will give as you suggest, Mozilla a turn. Where is the best place to download it from JM |
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