BREAKING THE BROWSER

[dArKeR]

 I’m just back from two weeks on a little island off the coast of Maine. I hadn’t been there for two years and was pleased to discover that the island now provides a strong digital cellphone signal, consistent 56K modem connections with all three of the ISPs I tried, and even cable modem. Regardless of the burps and bumps of the financial markets, that’s how the digital infrastructure gets built: one piece at a time, until suddenly one day you turn around and we truly have a connected nation, with all that implies for the future.
       
       But along with the burps of the financial markets, there are also the speedbumps of the legal system. The recent court victory over Microsoft by Eolas regarding the use of plug-ins to enhance browser capabilities hasn’t seemed to get a lot of attention beyond the tech world. But it could have some major impact on how the Web works. In theory, if Microsoft (and other browser makers) fail to pay Eolas a licensing fee — and don’t come up with an alternative — then plug-ins and applets like Shockwave, Real and literally hundreds of others could be locked out of the browser.

http://msnbc.com/news/767146.asp?0cv=CB20

[King Bush II]

1. IE sucks

mozilla and opera are much much better.

try it out http://www.mozilla.org/ <-- thats the one i use

[saline]

2. whats up with firebird?

I read about it and liked the idea of a stripped down browser but it seemed to have errors listed that would make it un-usable last time I looked. Have you tried that King? Is it worth trying for myself?

[King Bush II]

3. i have no idea

sorry, but i just use the full version of mozilla. i would try it just to see if it runs, and if not just use the latest build the other version.

[ramapo]

5. Firebird is OK

I'm using Firebird 0.6.1. It is very stable and faster than Mozilla. No pop-ups!! and the Tab feature is very nice. I had a bit of trouble migrating my bookmarks.

Also using Thunderbird for Mail. Also ok. The only thing I miss is being able to email links from the browser.

[dArKeR]

4. Thanks, I didn't know Mosilla had a browser. I'm jut too busy saving

America and the world to have leisure time, I'm downloading it now.