I have yet to see Win98 Offer me something that Win 95 does not. 98 == Overworked huge patch to Windows 95. I have yet to see a Windows box running slower than 700mhz take my win95 box running @ 233mhz. [boot up times, not photoshop times :) ] btw. What is Win98Lite ? Links or Copy and paste would be nice. On 05/24/2001 7:49:01 AM, "Kevin J. Menard, Jr." is quoted as saying: . . . .|Hey Bob, . . . .| . . . .|Wednesday, May 23, 2001, 7:36:20 PM, you wrote: . . . .| . . . .|BF> Windows 98Lite, using Netscape 4.75, is not vulnerable to this crash test. . . . .| . . . .|BF> I guess if you don't care about speed, security or stability...then IE could possibly be the best browser you know. . . . .| . . . .|IE is the fastest browser I've used. I don't use Windows98 for security, I use . . . .|it for multimedia. If you really cared about security, you wouldn't be running . . . .|98. IE tends to be very stable for me, especially in comparison to all the . . . .|other Win32 browsers I've used. . . . .| . . . .|BF> But without a trace of IE on my system using Win98 Lite, not only am I more . . . .|BF> secure... . . . .| . . . .|Security on Win98 is almost non-existant. . . . .| . . . .|BF> the performance of my system is unmatched by any Windows 2000 or Windows 98 system without any sacrifices. . . . .| . . . .|Windows 2000 is a resource hog. I have yet to see a system that would run . . . .|quicker with that than with win98. . . . .| . . . .| . . . .|>>>> "Kevin J. Menard, Jr." <kmenardat_private> 05/23/01 01:57PM >>> . . . .|BF> Hey Peter, . . . .| . . . .|BF> Interestingly, with the "IE Error Reporting" tool, your page degrades . . . .|BF> gracefully for me. I mean, it still dies, and I report the error (maybe . . . .|BF> something will be done someday), but it does it "nicely" I guess. It's . . . .|BF> usually the gopher thing that triggers that for me. But the shell one kills . . . .|BF> me every time. My entire task bar disappears and I have to restart explorer . . . .|BF> (Win2k, sp1, IE 5.50.4522.1800, 128-bit encryption). And I'm not trying to . . . .|BF> start a flame war here, but I think you're web page title was rather flawed. . . . .|BF> Outside of lynx, IE is unfortunately the best browser I've encountered, and . . . .|BF> I've had far less issues with it than NS or Mozilla. Likewise, I think this . . . .|BF> shell issue has to do with MS binding IE to the OS, which I do not agree . . . .|BF> with. . . . .| . . . .|BF> Later. . . . .| www.nul.cjb.net www.FreeBSD.org _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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