Tabbed Browseing with ie

Post by **loki1950** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 2:18 am

anyone install the new msn search bar and popup blocker it adds tabbed Browseing to ie

i guess M$ is fealing the heat of Firefox.

Enjoy the Choice

Halleck · Post by **Halleck** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 12:58 pm

Awesome... too bad IE still sucks balls.

Ryder P. Moses · Post by **Ryder P. Moses** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 5:03 pm

To be fair, so does Firefox. Hard.

Opera, too.

I remember the old Netscape Navigator being pretty good. Someone should bring that back.

Post by **klauss** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 6:26 pm

You can't make a good browser with all the current demands on it: ActiveX, javascript, HTML/XHTML/DHTML (not to mention the myriad versions, proprietary extensions and that kind of crap), HTTP1.0/HTTP1.1, SSL1/SSL2/SSL3/TLS, gif, png, mng, jpeg, mpeg, quicktime, realtime, avi, windows media, sounds (wav/aiff/au/mp3/ogg/mp2/wma), CSS, DOM... you name it.

To me, the killer ones are ActiveX/Javascript (too much for an efficient browser), all the countless proprietary extensions to both HTML/DHTML and JavaSript, and the unholy amount of multimedia content browsers must support in order to have a chance of succeeding.

It's just too complex. Better were the days when a browser simply parsed HTML, with the few casual images in it.

Oh... don't forget WMF!
(yes, you can read it both ways... I prefer the dirty one

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Halleck · Post by **Halleck** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 1:49 am

Ryder P. Moses wrote:I remember the old Netscape Navigator being pretty good. Someone should bring that back.

You can still download NCSA Mosaic.

Post by **loki1950** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 3:03 am

but Mosaic is a real memory hog and so far only Konqueror 3.4 is close to passing http://www.webstandards.org/act/acid2 any way now can tab with ie. which certianly makes fourum reading easier.

Enjoy the Choice

Ryder P. Moses · Post by **Ryder P. Moses** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 5:06 am

Really, I'd be more or less okay with Firefox's deficiencies if they just ever fixed the fucking memory leak. It is really not right that I can have Photoshop open to a seven-layer 2048x1024 image, MAX editing a scene with half a million polys, and a fairly recent videogame minimized in the background, and it's my fuckin' web browser that's taking up half the memory.