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Re: Down with Netscape!!!!....The Weaker Browser!!!!!

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From: Andrew Ansell
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 00:00
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Zer0 Cool wrote:
> 
> In article <32e2c1f3...@news.pc.centuryinter.net>,
>    e...@blader.com (Eilrahc of Omer) wrote:
> >On 18 Jan 1997 04:09:53 GMT, "Mike Brubaker" <mik...@sunlink.net>
> >wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>Why would someone pay for netscape? It sucks.  Internet Explorer can
> view
> >>any page netscape can--even better.  Style sheets, VBScript,
> ActiveX,
> >>scrolling marquees, marquees in general, the list can go on. MSIE
> will
> >>eventually bring down the netscape empire.
> >>
> >
> >It's been proven in survey after survey that more people design their
> >pages for Netscape. Another reason I dislike MSIE is that Billy-Bob
> >Gates has this great vision of PC merging seamlessly with the
> >internet. I don't want that. I want my internet programs completely
> >separate from the non-internet programs so that I can more easily
> >configure them and have more control over how they act.
> >
> 
> Actually, I used ta think MSIE was better than Netscape...UNTIL I
> downloaded the new Netscape 3.  It loads pages alot faster than IE and
> it actually handles other file types better.  I have actually had a
> web page lock my system because I was using MSIE, before.  That wuz
> why I DL'd Netscape in the first place.  Netscape handles Java
> better...  I haven't had any problems with it that I did with MSIE.
> 
> Besides...Microsoft is way to big...  They are trying to take over the
> whole fuckin computer industry man!  Don't get me wrong, I like
> Win95...but I think they should stick to that and quit trying to delve
> out into realms where they have no business being...(Like browsers and
> computer games)
> 
> Zer0

You forgot to mention the bugs in IE3. Did you know that you can write
an ActiveX script that will cause any computer reading the page to
shutdown?
And then there's the way it forgets to re-post data forms when you press
reload.
Plus I can run identical copies of netscape under Win95 or Linux and
avoid MS products completely, win95 is too unstable.

Andrew
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From: Andrew Ansell <asa...@cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Down with Netscape!!!!....The Weaker Browser!!!!!
Date: 1997/01/22
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