On Thursday 04 December 2003 19:39, Rob Kendrick wrote:
Am I unique in the Linux users world who pines of an IE for x86 Linux? Mozilla's all good and dandy, but it's /slow/ and in my experience, horribly unstable. IE by contrast is simple, and blindingly quick. It's actually a superb browser on balance, no matter what people say
I disagree
I am running Mozilla Firebird 0.6 on my Linux machine and Opera on my Windows machine (last time I tried Firebird on a Windows machine the win32 version seemed broken)
I now find it almost impossible to live with IE when I am forced to use another Windows machine now, in fact I was slightly shocked about how many popups there are now :o)
Oh and working without tabbed browsing once you have become used to such a feature is damm near impossible, wait to see tabbed browsing in the next major release of IE.
I find Firebird almost as quick as IE and Opera just that little bit quicker sometimes, as to compatability I have encountered only a tiny handfull of sites that wont work, no doubt most of them would work if I didn't refuse to change user agent strings, doing this makes those who monitor weblogs think there are less alternative browsers in popular use.
I prefer them to see that somebody who may have been a potential customer got punted at the first page.
What was the last version on Moz you tried, have you tried Phoenix / Firebird ?