Netscape or internet explorer..

[old.fumig@tor]

which is more widely used netscape or ie?
as you see a lot of internet companies utilising netscape more and more these days as well as commercials on television..
thats my 2 cents..

 

[old.TUG]

IE5 is miles ahead of nutscrape for reliability and speed. Gets mah vote sonny.

 

[old.Chink]

IE on the Windows platform, but Netscape on just about every other machine/OS.

 

[Embattle]

IE has a much bigger user base.

 

[old.Pure Science]

Netscape is a clomplete bastard when it comes to web building, it chops bits off left, right and centre - bloody frames

i used to use it but im an IE man now

 

[SAS]

IE5 for everything apart from java. If a web site is using a lot of java IE seems to crash so I use netscape for those moments :}

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[old.[GA] Shovel]

One word - NeoPlanet.

Uses IE 4/5 as its core, and so is just as fast, uses the same cache, same error pages, same benifits,
HOWEVER
if it crashes (which it VERY rarely does) then it doesnt take out the whole of windows like the normal IE5 would.
You can also download skins for anyone that likes a flashy desktop.

http://www.neoplanet.com

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[old.Necro]

I think IE is more popular nowerdays because of MS's inclusion of it with some versions of Windows. Personally i use Netscape.

 

[stu]

IE 4+ is the chosen browser for about 80% of visits to websites.

Incidentally, less than 0.5% of visits now come from Macs. "0wned"

 

[old.SimbobX]

Netscape 4 is pants, I'm afraid.
They've ditched their core engine for the next version, however, and are using the open source Mozilla engine instead.

Preview release of NS6:

http://www.netscape.com/download/previewrelease.html

Haven't tried it, myself, so it might also be pants (but we can hope that they've finally sorted the frames, CSS and other general rendering problems).

 

[stu]

Netscape 6 is rank, in ways you simply couldn't imagine

 

[old.TheGuyver]

We use nutscrape here at college and it blows.

its only redeeming feature is the profiling system and a decent (ish) Mail Client.

It crashes all the time, and when it does it is always takes out every window. its very memory hungry, and hates tables with a passion.

My job this summer will be trying to integrate IE 5 or even 4 with our networks.

Problem is the little darlings (aka Students) like to try and play, so i need to lock the fuckers down in the registary :<

/me is not looking forward to this summer.

hopefully the nextgen of nutscrape will be a lot better and have a much small memory footmap.

[This message has been edited by TheGuyver (edited 05 July 2000).]

 

[old.Necro]

The basic problem is that MSIE tended to define its own HTML standards, which crashed some other browsers. Also, some MSIE packages are also hidden Win95 upgrades, which explains some of my bad experiences with early versions of it.

Netscape is reasonably well behaved on the Uni Unix systems but in the NT lab, both NS and MSIE crash a lot.

 

[stu]

Hmm... our entire company uses NT4 and IE4, with very few problems. I used Netscape from v2 onwards, but switched over to IE when v5 came out. Having seen Netscape v6 pre-release, there's not much chance of me going back.


Necro = Bert, btw?

 

[old.Necro]

Different setups i suppose. Uni computer systems probably have to put up with a lot more meddling and abuse than then average company's systems. Having said that, i think the department computer officer has removed all the C compilers from the NT labs..


Bert? nope.