Re: Netscape vs M$ IE (Re: Sun goes...)
yeah, i find it quite common to see new bugs about IE4/5 in bugtraq /
securityfocus .. seems for every 4 to 5 IE security problems there is 1 NS
security problem.
i look forward to trying opera, although if it doesn't offer a feature
similar to netscape's romaing i won't be using it. i found that feature
something i can't live without now, the days of going from machine to
machine(or OS to OS) and realize that OH SHIT the bookmark i wanted was on
<insert other OS or machine here>..are over. i submitted a feature
request to o pera to include such a feature..hope they do it.
nate
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On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, J Horacio MG wrote:
>
> > > >
> > > > We shouldnt cheat outselves.
> > > > M$IE is much better than NS and there are plenty of users which will
> > > > chose it if it only will came available on Linux.
> > > > Some day gzilla may came the best browser in the world but
> > > > if M$ make port of IE before this time it can make a lot of mess
> > > > in the free software community
> > >
> > > i used to like IE more teh NS (back in 3.x) but ever since 4.x ive
> > > been devoted to NS. all the security problems and that whole activeX
> > > thing bugs me. that and the fact that i got mod_roaming for netscape, to
> > > update my prefs/bookmarks/etc so my 500bookmarks are always available
> > > wherever i may be. only thing i'd chjange about netscape is make different
> > > binaries for each app(composer/navigatgor/mail/news) so if one crashes it
> > > doesnt bring all of em down.
> >
> > ActiveX is easy to set off. I dont think NS is more secure than IE
> > (IE's security is more customizable and althru it had dumb defaults
> > one can make it reasonably secure by chosing proper options)
> > And IE is more efficent. I could have on M$WIN/IE box 20+ pages
> > (waiting for others to load) and did it often (list archives for ex)
> > With Linux/NS its difficult to have 5 pages opened at the same time
> > I also dont need mailer inside a browser
>
> I've seen security related electronic bulletins almost fully devoted to
> M$ IE bugs and security holes. One common complain is that many of
> these "new holes or bugs" had already been reported in earlier versions
> of M$ IE, having been acknowledge by M$, promised to fix, but never
> fixed.
>
> If that's so, it looks to me as if M$ IE is becoming a big collection of
> bugs and holes, and every new version therefore carries the old as well
> as the new (and probably some new features as well).
>
> The nicest feature for Netscape, IMHO, is that I can have Mutt as my
> Netscape's mailer ;-)
> The worst, is that it crashes almost always it encounters something in
> java... and even worst, it's getting used to crash X with it!
>
> I'd like to try other graphical browsers, but there are not that many
> around. I tried installing Sun's HotJava... to no success. Meantime, I
> most times have to resort to good old Lynx.
>
>
> Regards,
>
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