AvantBrowser vs MyIE2 vs SlimBrowser ?

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On 06 Oct 2003, Eric wrote
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What is the *payware* browser that you use Harvey? If I may ask
without offending anyone. I'm very interested in another
fully-functional IE based browser.
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Eric -- as you've recognised in the header, this would be off-topic in
the group, so I've moved the answer to mail.

(Post again if I've not unmunged your address correctly.)
 
On 06 Oct 2003, Harvey Van Sickle ([email protected]) wrote

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Eric -- as you've recognised in the header, this would be
off-topic in the group, so I've moved the answer to mail.

(Post again if I've not unmunged your address correctly.)
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I think I must have skipped Unmunging 101 the day they covered how to
e-mail you; 'cause it bounced on me.

(If you still want details on the browser shell, e-mail me by replacing
"harvey.news" with "whhvs.news".)
 
A few weeks ago I tried the new version of Netscape (7.1?) and it was
too slow to start up. I am still using an old computer which may be a
factor. But it's much slower than those IE shells.
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The last "fast" Netscape was in the 4.x generation. It seems when
Netscape/Mozilla began, also began the sloth generation of browsers.
I wish I knew why.
 
Christopher Jahn said:
Depends on your system. N7/Mozilla is much faster than IE on
the systems I'm running.
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What is your configuration ? On my P IV 2.0 GHz 256 MB, IE shells
load faster than Mozilla.
 
I tried them all but not extensively. Generally I use Avant because I
like the interface and the grouped tabs feature is more customizable
than the others. However, Avant will lock up at times when the
computer is under heavy usage. Which of the three use less resources
and has anyone tried Green Browser?
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I have tried just about every IE bolt-on tabbed interface including Green
Browser and have settled on Avant. It's very much a personal choice as they
are all quite similar.
 
I have tried just about every IE bolt-on tabbed interface including Green
Browser and have settled on Avant. It's very much a personal choice as they
are all quite similar.
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Same here. I have one annoying little problem with Avant though: I
can't run my HTML-editor (on the currently loaded file) by clicking on
the button in the toolbar. There is no such problem with IE. In fact
the Edit button is not shown properly, i.e. it's colourless.

Charles
 
Charles said:
Same here. I have one annoying little problem with Avant though: I
can't run my HTML-editor (on the currently loaded file) by clicking on
the button in the toolbar. There is no such problem with IE. In fact
the Edit button is not shown properly, i.e. it's colourless.
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That sounds like the proper way of showing it's unvailable.
 
That sounds like the proper way of showing it's unvailable.
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Available in IE, unavailable in Avant? Please explain? There is
nothing in the Avant options about an HTML editor, i.e. it is supposed
to use IE's configuration, but it doesn't.

Charles
 
Charles said:
GMT:
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Available in IE, unavailable in Avant? Please explain? There is
nothing in the Avant options about an HTML editor, i.e. it is supposed
to use IE's configuration, but it doesn't.
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I can't explain it. It just seems like if it's not available, showing
its icon greyed out is the usual convention, as versus the button not
being "shown properly". I think we're talking about two different
things -- starting when I took your comment about that literally.
 
And said:
What is your configuration ? On my P IV 2.0 GHz 256 MB, IE
shells load faster than Mozilla.
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Well, IE's key compononents load with Windows, so IE's actually
cold-load time of 2 minutes is hidden because it occurs during
boot-up.

I find pages render over twice as fast in Mozilla over IE.

--
:-) Christopher Jahn
:-(

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/xjahn/Main.html

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
 
Jim Scott said:
Meanwhile I'm off to give green browser a tryout.
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I cannot consider Green Browser freeware. It nags you to send the author
money on every startup. Can you imagine what hell that would be to have
such a thing as default browser?! The only "freeware" aspect is that the
author used the open source code from MYIE 3.2 original to compile his
nag-for-money version.

If this behavior has changed in a recent release, someone comment. But my
test drive of that offensive thing was not that long ago, say three months.
 
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