Browsers again

[Jim Scott]

I am finding more and more sites which do not function correctly on
Firefox/Mozilla. Although I have been a fan of these from the start my
patience is wearing thin. The announcement that FF 1.1 is to be delayed
leads me to look for an IE shell, in the meantime. I have used Maxthon and
Avast and although they are good, they are full of stuff I don't want or
need AND I know that I can tweak them down to what I want, but I 'don't
want'.
What I _do_ want (even if temporarily) is an IE shell with tabs, ad
blocking and pop-up blocking - and nothing else!!
(NOT Opera please)

 

[Mike Andrade]

I am finding more and more sites which do not function correctly
on Firefox/Mozilla. Although I have been a fan of these from the
start my patience is wearing thin. The announcement that FF 1.1 is
to be delayed leads me to look for an IE shell, in the meantime. I
have used Maxthon and Avast and although they are good, they are
full of stuff I don't want or need AND I know that I can tweak
them down to what I want, but I 'don't want'.
What I _do_ want (even if temporarily) is an IE shell with tabs,
ad blocking and pop-up blocking - and nothing else!!
(NOT Opera please)

Slimbrowser lite edition.

http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/dlpage.php

Scroll down the page a bit.

 

[Fuzzy Logic]

I am finding more and more sites which do not function correctly on
Firefox/Mozilla. Although I have been a fan of these from the start my
patience is wearing thin. The announcement that FF 1.1 is to be delayed
leads me to look for an IE shell, in the meantime. I have used Maxthon and
Avast and although they are good, they are full of stuff I don't want or
need AND I know that I can tweak them down to what I want, but I 'don't
want'.
What I _do_ want (even if temporarily) is an IE shell with tabs, ad
blocking and pop-up blocking - and nothing else!!
(NOT Opera please)

I'd take another look at Avant (Avast is an AV product). It will take you at
most 5 minutes to disable any features you are not interested in. They have
just released a new version. I love this program and it's just over 1MB.

 

[Jim Scott]

I'd take another look at Avant (Avast is an AV product). It will take you at
most 5 minutes to disable any features you are not interested in. They have
just released a new version. I love this program and it's just over 1MB.

Oops, I am using Avant just now (and Avast) and you are right it can be
castrated, which I have done. I will have a look at Slimbrowser Lite as
well.

 

[Wald]

I am finding more and more sites which do not function correctly on
Firefox/Mozilla.

Just curious... could you give some links?

Thanks,
Wald

 

[B. Lauritzen]

I am finding more and more sites which do not function correctly on
Firefox/Mozilla.

Just curious..what pages..?? cause i can't remember one. Even my bank
works without any problems at all..

B.B

 

[ChairShot]

I am finding more and more sites which do not function correctly on
Firefox/Mozilla. Although I have been a fan of these from the start my
patience is wearing thin. The announcement that FF 1.1 is to be delayed
leads me to look for an IE shell, in the meantime. I have used Maxthon and
Avast and although they are good, they are full of stuff I don't want or
need AND I know that I can tweak them down to what I want, but I 'don't
want'.
What I _do_ want (even if temporarily) is an IE shell with tabs, ad
blocking and pop-up blocking - and nothing else!!
(NOT Opera please)

I have created my own IE-based browser.
It is still a work in progress, as it has been for several
years now.

It isn't available anywhere but I would be
glad to email a copy of it to you. It
is not tabbed, though.

dos-man

 

[mike555]

I am finding more and more sites which do not function correctly on
Firefox/Mozilla. Although I have been a fan of these from the start my
patience is wearing thin. The announcement that FF 1.1 is to be delayed
leads me to look for an IE shell, in the meantime. I have used Maxthon and
Avast and although they are good, they are full of stuff I don't want or
need AND I know that I can tweak them down to what I want, but I 'don't
want'.
What I _do_ want (even if temporarily) is an IE shell with tabs, ad
blocking and pop-up blocking - and nothing else!!
(NOT Opera please)

===== I would suggest trying the Firefox ext. "User Agent Switcher" it
helps on my computer....... I set it to say that I'm useing IE6 and I
can better use certain sites..... like www.pcusa.com , for example
===========

 

[Jim Scott]

Just curious... could you give some links?

Thanks,
Wald

Not really. I just move on. I can, of course, use IEview.
They are usually pages which have buttons to click.

 

[Steven Burn]

| Oops, I am using Avant just now (and Avast) and you are right it can be
| castrated, which I have done. I will have a look at Slimbrowser Lite as
| well.

Stick with Avant ;o) (tis my favourite too)

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Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!

 

[Sweet Andy Licious]

I am finding more and more sites which do not function correctly on
Firefox/Mozilla. Although I have been a fan of these from the start my
patience is wearing thin. The announcement that FF 1.1 is to be
delayed leads me to look for an IE shell, in the meantime. I have
used Maxthon and Avast and although they are good, they are full of
stuff I don't want or need AND I know that I can tweak them down to
what I want, but I 'don't want'.
What I _do_ want (even if temporarily) is an IE shell with tabs, ad
blocking and pop-up blocking - and nothing else!!
(NOT Opera please)

I have to agree. That's why I finally switched (dragged, kicking and
screaming) to Netscape 7.2; arrgh.

 

[El Gee]

Just curious... could you give some links?

Thanks,
Wald

Webturbotax will not open in Firefox. The site will only open for IE
and Netscape. Moz nor Firefox will open it. I had to do my taxes this
year in... IE (Please do not pull my ACF membership!)

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[Sweet Andy Licious]

Just curious..what pages..?? cause i can't remember one. Even my bank
works without any problems at all..

B.B

I don't have a link, but I tried to order at Barnes and Noble and there was
no button to submit the order showing. Needless to say I had to switch to IE
to order it. Bummer. Netscape 7.2 is full of crap, though it does have a
built in popup stopper, but it seems to function much better than FF/Moz
based stuff. I've also tried Opera since version 4 and have yet to find it
satisfactory. Maybe it's just my 'puter, tho.

 

[ceed]

Just curious... could you give some links?

I am finding less and less that do not work with Opera...

 

[me]

===== I would suggest trying the Firefox ext. "User Agent
Switcher" it helps on my computer....... I set it to say
that I'm useing IE6 and I can better use certain sites.....
like www.pcusa.com , for example ===========

Don't blame any browser -- www.pcusa.com is horrible (169 syntax
errors). It opens in FF, tho.


J

 

[campu2]

Just curious... could you give some links?

Thanks,
Wald

Same here. A lot of sites load but part of the page is missing
and there is a message that says "Requires Plugin". I assume that
downloading the plugins (mainly Java 5.0) would eliminate 99% of
the problems.

Typical problems would be composing html mail on Yahoo's web based
mail. Works fine with Avant, but can only use text based mail if you
are using Firefox.

Firefox does not work well with MSN Groups or the new MSN spaces.

I still prefer Avant. Its loaded with features and is a smaller
download. Approximately 1.5 meg as opposed to 4.5 meg for Firefox +
an additional 5 meg for the Java plugin.

One small annoyance with Firefox, is it seems to take a full 5 seconds
to come up when I first open it. I.E/Avant comes up in 1 second or less
Same situation when I tried netscapte years ago.

Other than the larger download, plugins, and 5 second delay when
opening Firefox I would have a hard time choosing between the two.
Avant is fast and easy to set up. I prefer Avant.

 

[jo]

One small annoyance with Firefox, is it seems to take a full 5 seconds
to come up when I first open it. I.E/Avant comes up in 1 second or less

IE, being bundled with the OS, is partly preloaded which accounts for
the launch speed difference.

Perhaps uninstalling IE completely might help to redress the balance
slightly by giving Windoze a faster boot?

 

[CampU2]

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IE, being bundled with the OS, is partly preloaded which accounts for
the launch speed difference.

Perhaps uninstalling IE completely might help to redress the balance
slightly by giving Windoze a faster boot?

This is true. I guess if you were starting from scratch and didn't
have I.E. installed then it would be just as easy or easier to go
with Firefox. Assuming you already have I.E. 5.5 thru 6.0 installed
Avant is the easiest way to upgrade for the same features.

I have both, but I usually click on Avant rather than sit idle for
the 5 second delay.

I had a bigger problem with Thunderbird. Is it a RAM hog? When I opened
the Thunderbird, opening and closing other programs slowed to a crawl.
I uninstalled it the same day I downloaded it. Still prefer
Outlook/Hotmail over any POP mail.

 

[jo]

This is true. I guess if you were starting from scratch and didn't
have I.E. installed then it would be just as easy or easier to go
with Firefox. Assuming you already have I.E. 5.5 thru 6.0 installed
Avant is the easiest way to upgrade for the same features.

I know little about ieradicator:

http://www.litepc.com/ieradicator.html

I have both, but I usually click on Avant rather than sit idle for
the 5 second delay.

I had a bigger problem with Thunderbird. Is it a RAM hog?
dunno

Still prefer
Outlook/Hotmail over any POP mail.

Urrrrggghhh...

 

[Bob]

I am finding more and more sites which do not function correctly on
Firefox/Mozilla. Although I have been a fan of these from the start my
patience is wearing thin. The announcement that FF 1.1 is to be
delayed leads me to look for an IE shell, in the meantime. I have used
Maxthon and Avast and although they are good, they are full of stuff I
don't want or need AND I know that I can tweak them down to what I
want, but I 'don't want'.
What I _do_ want (even if temporarily) is an IE shell with tabs, ad
blocking and pop-up blocking - and nothing else!!
(NOT Opera please)

GreenBrowser is an IE shell you might like.
http://www.morequick.com/indexen.htm