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echo: nthelp
to: Robert Comer
from: Paul Ranson
date: 2003-02-06 23:03:44
subject: Re: Why IE became popular

From: "Paul Ranson" 

It uses the parts of IE that make IE a good web browser.

It would be cool to make a trojan pop up blocker that works perfectly until
you hit the wrong/right web site....

Paul

"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
news:3e42995d{at}w3.nls.net...
> No, it's not IE, it uses IE components.  The pop-up blocker is worth using
> it over plain IE any day any time. (and that's not the only good thing in
> there either.)
>
> - Bob Comer
>
>
> "Paul Ranson"  wrote in message
> news:3e42947f$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > But CrazyBrowser is IE.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > "Geo."  wrote in message
news:3e4241fa$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > It was true for me from version 2 on but recently I've switched to
> > > crazybrowser because MS won't address the popup problem. You really
have
> > to
> > > wonder why not too..
> > >
> > > Geo.
> > >
> > > "Tony Ingenoso" 
wrote in message
> > > news:3e41d61c{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > This certainly was true for me - I was using NutScrape on Win95/98
early
> > on,
> > > then switched to IE/OE when I got tired of NS trashing my email on a
> > almost
> > > weekly basis and NS's all too common hangs and sudden evaporations.
In
> > the
> > > years since, I never had IE/OE trash any email and the crash rates
> > declined
> > > dramatically.
> > >
> > > I never looked back.  Occasionally I'll download a new NS release,
> decide
> > > that its way too slow/buggy and toss it away for another 9 months.
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>

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