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  • Jon P. Inghram
    Super MURCer
    • Oct 1999
    • 3878
    #1

    Need a replacement browser now (contains semi-naughty language)

    The F'ing Eolas a$$wipe won his PoS "plug-in" patent crap and is forcing MS to make their plug-in code as user unfriendly as they can... http://slashdot.org/articles/03/10/0...tid=126&tid=95

    What's the most hassle free alternative browser?
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    • gt40
      This space for rent
      • Sep 1999
      • 3973
      #2
      Opera.
      Ok, it does have a little banner ad at the top, but you barely notice it.
      Yeah, well I'm gonna build my own lunar space lander! With blackjack aaaaannd Hookers! Actually, forget the space lander, and the blackjack. Ahhhh forget the whole thing!

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        • TnT
          Super MURCer
          • Sep 1999
          • 1644
          #3
          I hate these ridiculous software patents.
          Gigabyte GA-K8N Ultra 9, Opteron 170 Denmark 2x2Ghz, 2 GB Corsair XMS, Gigabyte 6600, Gentoo Linux
          Motion Computing M1400 -- Tablet PC, Ubuntu Linux

          "if I said you had a beautiful body would you take your pants off and dance around a bit?" --Zapp Brannigan

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            • bsdgeek
              Super MURCer
              • Feb 2002
              • 1543
              #4
              Firebird. (Contrary to what Gurm might say. )

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                • az
                  Moderator
                  • Feb 2001
                  • 9336
                  #5
                  See sig

                  AZ
                  There's an Opera in my macbook.

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                    • GNEP
                      Super MURCer
                      • Feb 2002
                      • 5241
                      #6
                      Never bothered installing anything else since Moz 1.3... so it must be OK enough...
                      DM says: Crunch with Matrox Users@ClimatePrediction.net

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                        • K6-III
                          Super MURCer
                          • Dec 2000
                          • 2253
                          #7
                          AZ, you need to update your sig, as Opera 7.21 has now gone final.

                          I use Opera as well, on both Linux and Windows...
                          Let us return to the moon, to stay!!!

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                            • Jon P. Inghram
                              Super MURCer
                              • Oct 1999
                              • 3878
                              #8
                              Loaded up Opera and am giving it a spin now.

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                                • Wombat
                                  Super MURCer
                                  • Aug 2000
                                  • 9498
                                  #9
                                  Re: Need a replacement browser now (contains semi-naughty language)

                                  Originally posted by Jon P. Inghram
                                  The F'ing Eolas a$$wipe won his PoS "plug-in" patent crap and is forcing MS to make their plug-in code as user unfriendly as they can... http://slashdot.org/articles/03/10/0...tid=126&tid=95

                                  What's the most hassle free alternative browser?
                                  Umm, why is it his fault? He had the patent long before any of the browsers implemented this. MS just thought they could steamroll this guy like they did with so many others.
                                  Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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                                    • Gurm
                                      MS Fanboy
                                      • Aug 1999
                                      • 11460
                                      #10
                                      Because the Eolas patent is too broad, Wombat. It's everything that's wrong with patents.

                                      Point in fact is that a few years back any idiot could patent virtually anything in the software world. A lot of the patent battles being fought now are for very "general" methods of doing something.

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                                      Anyway, use Opera. 7.21 is out now.

                                      Firebird is shit. I tried it. It's like Mozilla only with all the GOOD parts taken out. It's warmed over crap on a stick. Add to that the fact that, as usual, 90% of the web sites I frequent fail in smaller or larger ways to work properly...

                                      If it looks like Mozilla, and SMELLS like Mozilla, and TASTES like Mozilla... then why do we keep sniffing and licking human feces?

                                      - Gurm
                                      The Internet - where men are men, women are men, and teenage girls are FBI agents!

                                      I'm the least you could do
                                      If only life were as easy as you
                                      I'm the least you could do, oh yeah
                                      If only life were as easy as you
                                      I would still get screwed

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                                        • Gurm
                                          MS Fanboy
                                          • Aug 1999
                                          • 11460
                                          #11
                                          You see, that last post was funny because I was saying that Mozilla is human feces. Get it?

                                          - Gurm
                                          The Internet - where men are men, women are men, and teenage girls are FBI agents!

                                          I'm the least you could do
                                          If only life were as easy as you
                                          I'm the least you could do, oh yeah
                                          If only life were as easy as you
                                          I would still get screwed

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                                            • Chrono_Wanderer
                                              Super MURCer
                                              • Mar 2002
                                              • 2540
                                              #12
                                              Sorry Gurm, but I prefer Mozilla over Opera LOL

                                              But anything is better than IE of course. (The only thing i like about IE is it loads itself fast, but other than that it sucks big time)

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                                                • Marshmallowman
                                                  Super MURCer
                                                  • Sep 1999
                                                  • 3416
                                                  #13
                                                  I don't believe you Gurm

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                                                    • Wulfman
                                                      Super MURCer
                                                      • Oct 2000
                                                      • 1662
                                                      #14
                                                      mozilla 1.5 or firebird.

                                                      mfg
                                                      wulfman
                                                      "Perhaps they communicate by changing colour? Like those sea creatures .."
                                                      "Lobsters?"
                                                      "Really? I didn't know they did that."
                                                      "Oh yes, red means help!"

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                                                        • chaoliang
                                                          MURCer
                                                          • Feb 2002
                                                          • 496
                                                          #15
                                                          Mozilla has much better multilanguage support and is in my experience stabler than Opera. It's smaller and a bit faster, as long as I can judge.

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