OT: IE 5.5 SP2 "Always ask before opening this type of file"is

From: Roger Merchberger <zmerch_at_30below.com>
Date: Fri Nov 2 09:28:34 2001

Rumor has it that Allison may have mentioned these words:
>Replace Nyetscrap 4.72 with 4.08, much more stable.
>Or if you want more fun install IE4.02 (comx/activx crippled)
>and turn off VBS scripting.
>
>Allison

[snippety]

Honestly - if you have the horsepower, go Netscape 6.1+ (6.2 *just* came
out - the best I got from them was 28Kbyte/second downloads yesterday -
nuttin' better than a pair of T1s to the backbone for our area... ;-)

Amazingly rock solid, and dang fast - but not for the fainthearted (or
faintcpu'd).

I'll admit that 6.0 *just* *plain* *sucked* - from what I've seen with 6.1,
they didn't do a thing but clean up bugs. Can't tell what they did with
6.2, either - except it seems to start a little faster than 6.1. 6.1 took a
little while to get started, but once it was, it flew! (No, I don't use
that auto-start system-tray crap... Of course, the program runs for several
days at a time, so maybe I should try it.)

After installing 6.1 a day or two after it came out, I never even bothered
to install anything 4.x -- and I 1) am hard to impress and 2) hate to
upgrade. IIRC, it crashed *once* since I'd installed it - and I cannot
guarantee that it wasn't my fault, as I installed it 4 times in a row...
[[to get all of the files necessary for offline installation to put it on a
CD - I'm co-owner of an ISP, so we needed it for future installs...]]

Awrighty - I'll shutup from my rambling and go back to the dark shadows... ;-)

Roger "Merch" Merchberger

P.S. - I have not tried it in a "low memory" situation - with the price of
RAM nowadays, the lowest config I've run it on was Celery 400 OC'd to 450,
128Meg RAM and it was fine if you didn't leave it run for a week... Now I
have 384Meg and it's stayed stable for for a week at a time... 64Meg or
less and you *definitely* wanna stick with 4.08.
Received on Fri Nov 02 2001 - 09:28:34 GMT

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