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| | | Why does IE suck so much now? It constantly sucks my cpu down so much so that the mouse stalls out. This happens when loading pages, or even just sitting there. I think the idle stalls are caused by Messenger running in the background. But it's (...) (22 years ago, 30-Oct-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Re: MS IE SUCKS! —Dan Boger
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| | | | | (...) perhaps try using mozilla? lightning fast for me :) fwiw, I get the same problems with IE at work - the whole system hangs when I close a window, for a few seconds... when a complex page loads, etc. (URL) Dan Boger dan@peeron.com (22 years ago, 30-Oct-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | Re: MS IE SUCKS! —Christopher Tracey
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| | | | | | (...) i'll back dan up on this one... IE grinds my XP system to a near halt when i start it up to check for site development compatability. Speaking of IE problems, this is bugging the heck outta me right now: (URL) (22 years ago, 1-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Re: MS IE SUCKS! —Daniel Crichton
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| | | | | "Erick" <erick_jensen@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:H4s2FF.HDx@lugnet.com... (...) to (...) (in (...) Firstly reduce the size of your temporary files cache, the more files there are the slower it appears to get. Then set IE to clear the cache (...) (22 years ago, 30-Oct-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | Re: MS IE SUCKS! —Erick Jensen
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| | | | | | Thanks for the ideas, I thought of it the opposite way. I figured bigger temp files the less it would have to download. I had cranked up pretty high, 60+mb. Out of curiosity, are there any third party extentions I would ever want? Is 'flash' (...) (22 years ago, 31-Oct-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | Re: MS IE SUCKS! —Daniel Crichton
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| | | | | | "Erick" <erick_jensen@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:H4tys0.1xs@lugnet.com... (...) The problem seems to be that a bigger causes problems managing all of those small files, creating a large overhead. (...) Things like flash, quicktime, etc (...) (22 years ago, 31-Oct-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Re: MS IE SUCKS! —Richard Marchetti
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| | | | | (...) It's good and bad at the same time. What I am looking forward to is full support of the PNG image format. Why it hasn't been implemented is anyone's guess. GIF transparency doesn't hold a candle to that of PNG. Of course, I use Opera -- which (...) (22 years ago, 31-Oct-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | Re: MS IE SUCKS! —Erick Jensen
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| | | | | | No clue what you just said dude. And I considered myself a geek. e. ha ha ha (...) (22 years ago, 1-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | Re: MS IE SUCKS! —Richard Marchetti
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| | | | | | | 1) IE is pretty good on MAC, a little worse on PC. They are developed independently of one another. 2) (A layman's explanation of PNG) PNG is the extension of an image format that is intended to replace the GIF image format without the legal (...) (22 years ago, 1-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: MS IE SUCKS! —Dan Boger
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| | | | | | | | Quoting richard marchetti <blueofnoon@aol.com>: (...) Never used it, can't tell you. Personally Galeon is my favorite browser, and it does have one big advantage over opera - it's free :) (...) you must be high! Mozilla has absolutly NOTHING in (...) (22 years ago, 1-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: MS IE SUCKS! —Richard Marchetti
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| | | | | | | | (...) Yeah, I agree it's better -- it was just that I thought Netscape's Communicator was based on the Mozilla code. I guess I was wrong... The latest version of Mozilla appears to support PNG, so that's a good thing. And as you said of Galeon, it's (...) (22 years ago, 1-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: MS IE SUCKS! —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | | | (...) Netscape Communicator refers to the 4.7x and earlier browser suite, which does not share code with Mozilla. The new product is now just called "Netscape" (as in "Netscape 7.0") and *is* based on Mozilla code. Basically, they take the Mozilla (...) (22 years ago, 2-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: MS IE SUCKS! —Richard Marchetti
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| | | | | | | | (...) Yeah, someone sent this information to me as a private email. And while I do think Mozilla is a great product, esp. for free and with skins and so forth, it seems to have sketchy support for valign in TD tags (esp. in nested tables perhaps, (...) (22 years ago, 3-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: MS IE SUCKS! —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | | | | (...) Check this out: (URL) In short, Mozilla has three modes: quirks, almost standards, and full standards. If you tell it that you're using strict real HTML, it'll believe you. Otherwise, it'll try to be forgiving. (...) Yeah, but the UI is *so* (...) (22 years ago, 6-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: MS IE SUCKS! —David Eaton
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| | | | | | | | (...) My boss uses Opera (he loves it), but he's found a couple issues with it-- most notably with its apparent inability to maintain cookies. I've never played with it myself, but it will periodically just drop his cookies... Also, IIRC, it had (...) (22 years ago, 6-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: MS IE SUCKS! —Richard Marchetti
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| | | | | | | | No problem with either cookies or the file extension issues over here. I regularly use Opera to post via the web interface on lugnet and also to shop at Bricklink. I think both use cookies to identify me when I browse around. I'm running Opera 6.01. (...) (22 years ago, 7-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: MS IE SUCKS! —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | | | (...) Well, realistically, you want as many existing web sites to work as possible. I can't think of a reason where you'd want to turn on the "treat this pedantically" flag for someone else's site in real life. (...) Do you have an example of what (...) (22 years ago, 7-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | Re: MS IE SUCKS! —Jude Beaudin
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| | | | | | (...) Don't worry, we are all geeks and we do not understand him either. <g,d,r> Jude (22 years ago, 20-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Re: MS IE SUCKS! —William R. Ward
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| | | | (...) Why? To make you buy a faster computer, of course. That's the whole reason that Microsoft made it "part of the operating system" - so they could slow it down just like everything else with the new version, to make you buy a new faster PC, (...) (22 years ago, 16-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: MS IE SUCKS! —Erick Jensen
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| | | | They got Counter-Strike for Linux? Or just Half-Life? How bout pirated versions of Photoshop? I'd have a mac if they made those things for me. How bout a driver for my cd burner from sony that has a drive slot for digi cam card? Well, till they make (...) (22 years ago, 20-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: MS IE SUCKS! —Ross Crawford
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| | | | | (...) Only because you choose to limit yourself to those exact products. There are many equally useful alternatives. ROSCO (22 years ago, 20-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | Re: MS IE SUCKS! —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | | (...) Except for of Photoshop. (22 years ago, 20-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: MS IE SUCKS! —Dan Boger
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| | | | | | | | Quoting Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org>: (...) what's wrong with the gimp? I often choose it over photoshop (to the point of rebooting if I happen to be on windows), since I find it much better for my photoshopic needs. (22 years ago, 25-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: MS IE SUCKS! —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | | | (...) It's fine (but not up to Photoshop's level) for functionality, but has a *terrible* UI -- bad enough that it gets in the way of getting things done. (22 years ago, 25-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | Re: MS IE SUCKS! —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) Sorry, what equally useful alternatives are there for CounterSrike or Half Life? These are games. Either a game is on the platform in question or it isn't. If it isn't on the platform, there IS NO alternative for it. There might be other games (...) (22 years ago, 20-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | Re: MS IE SUCKS! —Erick Jensen
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| | | | | | | Rock on wif yo bad self. Games are a big factor in what system I use. I haven't got the money to buy all the consoles so I get very picky. I base my purchase on not the system and it's performace stats, but the games. Cuz honestly, a gamecube could (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | Re: MS IE SUCKS! —Dan Boger
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| | | | | | Quoting Larry Pieniazek <lpieniazek@mercator.com>: (...) see (URL) - alternative platform, same game. (22 years ago, 25-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | Re: MS IE SUCKS! —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) Not the same platform == not the same game. Even if it's a port. Good try though. (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | Re: MS IE SUCKS! —Dan Boger
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| | | | | | (...) but it's not a port! winex just lets you run the original windows version while booted to linux. All it does is implement (in addition to all the API calls that wine does) the directx APIs that a lot of games use. So it really is the same (...) (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | Re: MS IE SUCKS! —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | (...) In a very real sense, it *is* the same platform. (22 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: MS IE SUCKS! —Matthew Miller
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| | | | (...) "Pirated versions of Photoshop". I love it. I want to see a study which shows how much the easy availability of pirated win32 software is a barrier to the rise of desktop L inux. Is the slot on your CD burner a Memory Stick slot? Many Memory (...) (22 years ago, 20-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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