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- From: ejack@user1.channel1.com (Eric D. Jackson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Battle of the Browsers!
- Date: 31 Mar 1996 08:36:05 GMT
- Organization: Channel 1 Communications
- Message-ID: <1510.6664T488T2323@user1.channel1.com>
- References: <4j4tq3$349@news.mistral.co.uk> <hU0ky*Br2@wolf359.exile.org> <4jlgod$i3m@nntp5.u.washington.edu>
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- >In article <hU0ky*Br2@wolf359.exile.org>,
- >Eric Edwards <eric@wolf359.exile.org> wrote:
- >>In article <4j4tq3$349@news.mistral.co.uk>, Lars Janssen writes:
- >>
- >>> IBrowse has more good features, but also (understandably) more bugs.
- >>> For a version which admits to being far from finished it's very good.
- >>> If I'm not mistaken, the people behind IBrowse used to work on
- >>> AMosaic. Amosaic went through several versions before it was
- >>> truly reliable... let's hope the finished IBrowse is stable too.
- >>
- >>When did AMosaic become truly reliable? Mine crashes all the time.
- >>You're saying Ibrowse and AWeb are *less* reliable?
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- >Much less reliable on my system, with IBrowse the worst of the lot. AWeb
- >only rarely hangs, but doesn't do things like forms, some graphics, and some
- >downloads, where Mosaic plods along but handles virtually everything thrown
- >at it, even if it can't display it. About the only time it freezes up is
- >when the system is under very heavy use. Not as fancy or fast, but I'll
- >take it any day until the others are as reliable. (with AmitCP or MLINK,
- >PPP, MUI 3.3. on an A1200 030 w/ 4M fast ram added).
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- I use Amosaic myself because it's the most stable. I may lose my connection
- sometimes but my hard drive has never been trashed. I run Ibrowse on a
- seperate 25 mg partition and I've had to reformat that partition twice. To
- tell you the truth, because of the bad experiences with Ibrowse, i haven't
- even tried Aweb.
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- Eric D. Jackson
- ejack@user1.channel1.com
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