www.advancedbrowser.com
it's got pop-up blocking and tabbed browsing - and is only a 1mb download.
if you've tried it let me know what you think of it?
cheers
Josh
www.advancedbrowser.com
it's got pop-up blocking and tabbed browsing - and is only a 1mb download.
if you've tried it let me know what you think of it?
cheers
Josh
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Just a shell for IE, so will suffer from all the privacy concerns, bugs, malware, exploits, pathetic PNG rendering and broken CSS support of IE. There're better IE shells out there like Maxathon.
I tried several IE shells, hoping to improve my web browsing, and pretty soon came to the conclusion that you can't polish a turd.
Luckily with Firefox 1.0 now out, you don't need to even try.
crikey just went to a website (http://pstudios.ath.cx/) and got this:
"You are using Internet Explorer and due to it not being complaint to web standards, my website will not display properly if you use it. Please get a standards compliant web browser such as Mozilla Firefox and return in that browser."
they won't let me read their webpage (a review of mexathon) with IE/advanced browser - surely this is a bit extreme!!
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It is extreme and unneccessary, rather like all those sites that demand you use IE when the pages will view perfectly well in other browsers.
He's obviously rather miffed at IE's very poor implementation of CSS. The page you wanted to read is copied below. I couldn't see any copyright claim on the article, or the website at all, but if any forum mods have a problem with this, then feel free to delete.
MyIE[Maxathon] Browser Review and Comparison
After hearing some people talk about how they used this browser called MyIE and how it was supposedly better than Internet Explorer despite basically being based on it, I decided to give it a shot and compare it to Mozilla Firefox and of course Internet Explorer. Seeing that I do not use Windows at home, I did this on a computer at school with the following approximate specs.
RAM: 124Mb
CPU: ~700Mhz
Well, after installation I took my first look at the browser. The layout of the browser was pretty bad IMO, and its tab bar remained at the top of the browser no matter how many tabs you had open which was quite annoying. The next thing to do was to run some tests though. Those were how it rendered my website in order to test for the same broken PNG support of IE, and other similarities to see how it compared to IE. Another was RAM usage VS Firefox's RAM usage and a speed test.
Rendering Test: I was not suprised to find that upon loading my website, the PNGs still had no transparency like they should. This was before the big move from tables to CSS+div, so I did not get to test to see if it rendered my website as bad as IE which is now a banned browser on this website.
RAM Test: Well, next was a trip to the Windows task manager to see how much RAM both Firefox and MyIE were consuming. Firefox consumed around 2Mb and MyIE was taking up over 5Mb and that amount was steadily increasing even without me using it. I suppose the coders thought that it would be fun to stick some sort of random loop in the code that made it eat memory or something, or maybe MS did that for them since they pretty much stole the code from IE.
Speed Test: I was actually unfair to Firefox on this test because I began loading the Gentoo Forums in MyIE about 2 seconds before I started loading it in Firefox. However, Firefox had the Gentoo Forums loaded in about one second, while MyIE was still churning away with it finishing around 15 seconds after I began loading them. In this case, Firefox beat MyIE exponentially and it makes me wonder who the hell paid those people to give good comments about the browser.
My tip is to stay away from any browser with "IE" or "Internet Explorer" in the name, because chances are it is just an even more bloated version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer with the same gaping security holes as IE.
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