Re:Re[4]: Crash IE with shell://:

[Peter <fbsdq () yahoo com>]

I have yet to see Win98 Offer me something that Win 95 does not.

98 == Overworked huge patch to Windows 95.

I have yet to see a Windows box running slower than 700mhz  take 
my win95 box running @ 233mhz. [boot up times, not photoshop times :) ]

btw.  What is Win98Lite ?

Links or Copy and paste would be nice.

On 05/24/2001 7:49:01 AM, "Kevin J. Menard, Jr." is quoted as saying:
 

. . . .|Hey Bob,
. . . .|
. . . .|Wednesday, May 23, 2001, 7:36:20 PM, you wrote:
. . . .|
. . . .|BF> Windows 98Lite, using Netscape 4.75, is not vulnerable to this crash test.
. . . .|
. . . .|BF> I guess if you don't care about speed, security or stability...then IE could 
possibly be the best browser you know.
. . . .|
. . . .|IE is the fastest browser I've used.  I don't use Windows98 for security, I 
use
. . . .|it for multimedia.  If you really cared about security, you wouldn't be running
. . . .|98.  IE tends to be very stable for me, especially in comparison to all the
. . . .|other Win32 browsers I've used.
. . . .|
. . . .|BF> But without a trace of IE on my system using Win98 Lite, not only am I 
more
. . . .|BF> secure...
. . . .|
. . . .|Security on Win98 is almost non-existant.
. . . .|
. . . .|BF> the performance of my system is unmatched by any Windows 2000 or 
Windows 98 system without any sacrifices.
. . . .|
. . . .|Windows 2000 is a resource hog.  I have yet to see a system that would run
. . . .|quicker with that than with win98.
. . . .|
. . . .|
. . . .|>>>> "Kevin J. Menard, Jr." <kmenard () WPI EDU> 05/23/01 01:57PM >>>
. . . .|BF> Hey Peter,
. . . .|
. . . .|BF>     Interestingly, with the "IE Error Reporting" tool, your page degrades
. . . .|BF>     gracefully for me.  I mean, it still dies, and I report the error (maybe
. . . .|BF>     something will be done someday), but it does it "nicely" I guess.  It's
. . . .|BF>     usually the gopher thing that triggers that for me.  But the shell one kills
. . . .|BF>     me every time.  My entire task bar disappears and I have to restart 
explorer
. . . .|BF>     (Win2k, sp1, IE 5.50.4522.1800, 128-bit encryption).  And I'm not 
trying to
. . . .|BF>     start a flame war here, but I think you're web page title was rather 
flawed.
. . . .|BF>     Outside of lynx, IE is unfortunately the best browser I've encountered, 
and
. . . .|BF>     I've had far less issues with it than NS or Mozilla.  Likewise, I think 
this
. . . .|BF>     shell issue has to do with MS binding IE to the OS, which I do not 
agree
. . . .|BF>     with.
. . . .|
. . . .|BF>     Later.
. . . .|



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