[VANITY] What can Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator do that Mozilla cannot?

self ^ | 1-17-3 | Petronski

[Petronski]

I just downloaded and installed Mozilla and it seems to be better than the Explorer 5.5 I had been using.

What is the downside to this? It seems to do everything I used explorer for, plus it has killed all unrequested popups, yet permits popups that I request (like tvguide).

Is there something I'm missing here?

[Petronski]

Well, MSIE has been bothering me in several different ways lately:

On some pages (weather.com and tvguide.com), a page will stop rendering midway and a little box will ask "....do you want to run Debug?" and I have to press no to continue. Very annoying.

Sometimes it politely says 'Microsoft Explorer must terminate, do you want to send a report to Microsoft about this condition?' Then all web pages crash simultaneously.

I have directories full of old cache files which I can locate with 'find' but which I cannot delete, except at the command prompt.

Explorer often collides head on with my antivirus program.

Explorer sometimes forgets how to render smooth fonts.

Various explorer windows freeze without explanation and can only be assassinated with ctl-alt-del.

Etc....

[Petronski]

Pop-up stopper does not seem to be able to distinguish between requested pop-ups and unrequested pop-ups. I will give you an example. With tvguide.com, when you click on a program, it uses java to run a popup with a description of the program. With panicware's pop-up stopper, this page does not work. It seems to kill all popups, indiscriminately.

[Bush2000]

Thanks for the link, dude. ;-)

[rs79bm]

Just so you know, Microsoft IE 6.0 is very similiar to Mozilla, however they both have their limitations. In speed tests, Microsoft IE 6.0 is faster on startup than Mozilla, while they both are similiar is speed tests as far as bringing up indentical websites, etc...all in all, what one can't do, or doesn't do very well, you can usually do better with the later.

[apackof2]

Are you pressing ctrl & alt at the same time before you click on a window?

[PaulJ]

You can set the level(normal or aggresive), but if there is a pop up you want, hold down "Ctrl" or "Shift" and it will allow the pop-up

[Petronski]

Uh, no. I found that to be a cumbersome pain in the @$$

[Petronski]

Thanks for the help, both of you. But why should I revert to a key-combination when Mozilla seems to be able to tell the difference and renders them properly?

It's a rhetorical question, of course.

I should have mentioned in my list of problems above that Mozilla has fixed them all. That's why I wanted to know, 'hey, what's the catch?'

[wildbill]

Pop-up stopper stops pop-ups. That's its job. But you can temproarily turn it off for a specific pop-up or link by using the control key.

[PaulJ]

Wait...now I've got a question and I'll bet someone here can answer it. I have IE6. Why is that that when I visit certain web pages (FreeRepublic is one) my text size changes? I like it at "smaller" but when I come to FR it switches to "Medium" and every now and then, on some sites, it'll switch to "Gigantic". Is this problem something in IE? Does anyone know how I can fix it?

[Petronski]

Some browser issues being discussed here.

[PAR35]

Microsoft IE 6.0 is very similiar to Mozilla

One huge difference. Microsoft says the minimum system requirements for 6.0 include Win98 or higher operating system. Mozilla runs fine on Win95. See here for 6.0 requirements (recommended and minimum).
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/evaluation/sysreqs/default.asp

[PAR35]

I use Moz 1.0

They are up to 1.2.1 for release now, with 1.3 in Beta.

[ShadowAce]

I would guess it's a problem with IE, as I use Mozilla under Linux, and have not had that problem. I HAVE had that problem using Opera under Windows, though. Maybe it's a windows thing, rather than IE.

[UB355]

Netscape 7 is the commercial Mozilla version and includes the pop up blocker and an e-mail client. Very Slick

[Anchoragite]

Sounds like you've gotten the point. It's very cool, it's better than IE, etcetera. You're not missing a thing.

[babygene]

"Can it cure cancer or AIDS yet?"

There is already a solution for AIDS... Find a wife and stop browsing with the same sex.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Too bad you can't get a sense-of-humor transplant. You could use one.

I think I can help with this one.

[Anchoragite]

All hail Linux. It will free the workers.

Say what you want about open source, but... it's a sad state for development when a corporation is so bad at doing what it monopolizes that people in the industry are willing to create a competing (if not superior) product from scratch, for free.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

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