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- On Sat, 20 Jan 1996, Kevin Phair wrote:
-
- > rbaron@burner.com (Ish Hallin) writes:
- >
- > > Probably no one will believe me on this, but IBrowse hung up my system more
- > > than AMosaic ever has.
- >
- > I believe you. Just as it seemed AMosaic was getting more stable and
- > the programmers were actually getting somewhere with it, they go and
- > create IBrowse which has given me software failure errors, and nearly
- > always left *numerous* locked files in T: upon exiting (if it was even
- > good enough to exit, that is - most times it just closed the window
- > and left its task in memory.)
- >
- > I certainly wouldn't bother looking at it again, and if I want to do
- > web browsing now I use Netscape 2.0b4 under shapeshifter, at least
- > until Weblink or AWeb, any of the other promising browsers become
- > available
-
- The above complaint seems like about a NO-BRAINER of a whine to me!
-
- Sheesh guys, don't you ever READ?!!! The screen that you d/l IBrowse
- from has a very clear warning about it being a pre-release BUGGY
- version for people to mess around with and report bugs, while they
- wait for the finished version. It even warns about invalidating the
- partition it is run from. SO GET A CLUE! There are plenty of
- IBM'ers who won't use Netscape 2.0b because it's too buggy, so maybe
- you should give that up to, and just get yourself some passenger
- pigeons, or bottles with a cork if you live by the sea.
-
- Personally, I am glad that there are several teams working on
- browsers. The IBM world is going to Netscape in such a big way that
- if Hof Java doesn't take off, soon there will be only Netscape and
- Microsoft to choose from for browsers, which when it comes to writing
- propietary software for what should be universal-access, is like two
- sides of the same coin.
-
- I suppose now that I'll get flamed at for pointing out the obvious.
- Please at first do me the justice of reading the IBrowse warnings
- first, so flames will at least have some basis in them.
-
-
- David Jarvis
-
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