Originally posted by thewretchedbeaver
that's what i'm starting to not like about opera, they keep adding stuff to it when i just use it browse
and microsoft compliant of standards, lets see how well msn works on any non-ie browser
I never liked how Opera works. At first they were supposed to load web pages "blazingly fast", but lacked basics like Java support. Not worth paying for when there are so many excellent OSS projects.
As for MSIE, it doesn't even comply with the Internet Protocol, much less HTML. Microsoft has a long tradition of built-in incompatibilities that cause problems with non-MS products. No doubt MSN continues that tradition.
Originally posted by qtiger
It also takes up more RAM than IE 6... Though I admit that Phoenix is still in the development stages. Probably has a leak or two they haven't snagged.
Phoenix is actually a cut-down version of the full Mozilla package. I doubt it's a memory leak. I also doubt that it really takes up more RAM. If you're going by what Task Manager says, you're getting propaganda. Once you count all of the MSHTML components that Windows preloads, IE is mighty hefty.
Originally posted by qtiger
:rofl: Are you serious? Netscape used to be $49.99 at your local software outlet. That's what the big fuss monopoly fuss was about. Netscape practically went out of business because Internet Explorer was FREE built into operating system and also free to download.
Netscape has always been a free download, and came bundled with many computers before Microsoft forced vendors to drop it.
That is what the big monopoly fuss was about.