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Date:      Sat, 2 Oct 1999 10:29:18 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Thomas Uhrfelt <thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se>, jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: MS Internet Explorer For FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <19991002102917.I496@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <LOBBJNJHKFOGCKJFKEKBGEKECLAA.thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se>; from Thomas Uhrfelt on Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 05:12:40PM %2B0200
References:  <LOBBJNJHKFOGCKJFKEKBGEKECLAA.thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910011426480.69444-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910011019400.58319-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> <LOBBJNJHKFOGCKJFKEKBGEKECLAA.thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se>

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On Friday,  1 October 1999 at 14:28:52 -0400, jack wrote:
>On Friday,  1 October 1999 at 17:12:40 +0200, Thomas Uhrfelt wrote:
>>>>> One of the reasons i'm doing this is because Netscape dosen't
>>>>> work for me quite right and it doesent have all of IE's featues
>>>
>>> Bugtraq has listed quite a few IE "features" lately.  :)
>>>
>>>>> when my kid goes to this site (www.bolt.com) netscape core dumps
>>>>> and just leaves the system hanging there
>>>>
>>>> tried it here too, and it crashes my browser but system still works
>>>> fine...have you tried the site using Win-Netscape?
>>>
>>> Turn off java and javascript and it comes up fine.
>>
>> I am not gioing into the IE vs NS debate, but don't you think it's funny
>> while you are promoting NS in favor of IE - you tell him to fix a bug in NS
>> by saying the same things as MS when they "fix" bugs in IE .. "No problem,
>> just turn off...(BLAH BLAH" ;-) ..
>
> I have come across several non-standard (read M$ "enhanced") java
> apps and scripts that choke NS.  I have not looked at what that
> page uses but based on the ones I have looked into......

I think the fact is that there is no good web browser available.  I
think it's a sorry state of affairs for what is both relatively simple
and extremely important to a large majority of users.

Greg
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