Okay IE6 sucks, how do l revert to IE5

**Jethro** · Oct 29th, 2002, 10:51 PM

Asked this at a number of places and still to get an answer. And yes have played with all the settings and things, it's still caching everything under the sun... stoopid ms product.

**DrewDog_21** · Oct 30th, 2002, 01:21 AM

as far as I know, all you have to do is uninstall IE6, and IE5 should reinstall automatically

**Pc_Madness** · Oct 30th, 2002, 03:06 AM

Originally posted by DrewDog_21
as far as I know, all you have to do is uninstall IE6, and IE5 should reinstall automatically

Pfft. Download IE5 from the Microsoft website. I'm sure its there. Then uninstall IE.

Whats your problem with caching?

**Zaei** · Oct 30th, 2002, 06:59 AM

Originally posted by Pc_Madness
Whats your problem with caching?

I might get an image virus =(.

Get Mozilla... beats IE any day =).

Z.

**JungleMan** · Oct 30th, 2002, 07:01 AM

Originally posted by Zaei
Get Mozilla... beats IE any day =).

Riiiight...

**Zaei** · Oct 30th, 2002, 07:05 AM

Originally posted by Jungle-Man
Riiiight...

Well, it hasnt crashed yet =P.

Z.

**prog_tom** · Oct 30th, 2002, 12:59 PM

i don't like ie6, the image resize thing is annoying.

**JoshT** · Oct 30th, 2002, 01:27 PM

Originally posted by prog_tom
i don't like ie6, the image resize thing is annoying.

You can turn it off in the options somewhere.

FWIW, IE6 actually supports CSS better than IE5 or 5.5 - you need version 6 for certain things to work correctly at all.

**Pc_Madness** · Oct 30th, 2002, 11:46 PM

Originally posted by Zaei
I might get an image virus =(.

Get Mozilla... beats IE any day =).

Z.

Hey, I was just reporting what I read from a reliable source. Besides, anythings possible.

**Sastraxi** · Oct 30th, 2002, 11:54 PM

You know IE4 filters? They are only supported in Major versions for some reason.. 4.2 (I think) and 5.5 don't support them, but 4, 5, and 6 do.. a weird little tidbit for you there.

**JungleMan** · Oct 31st, 2002, 06:37 AM

Originally posted by Zaei
Well, it hasnt crashed yet =P.

Z.

Same

Mozilla isn't that bad actually, just has its quirks compared to IE...you want a horrible browser use Opera

**DiGiTaIErRoR** · Oct 31st, 2002, 08:24 AM

Originally posted by Jungle-Man
Same

Mozilla isn't that bad actually, just has its quirks compared to IE...you want a horrible browser use Opera

Opera? Not as bad as Netscape.

**JungleMan** · Nov 2nd, 2002, 01:11 AM

Originally posted by DiGiTaIErRoR
Opera? Not as bad as Netscape.

I think Opera and Netscape are tied for the worst browsers known to man.

Netscape is buggy and crashes often, not to mention bloated. Opera isn't bloated, but has a horrible rendering engine.

Given the choice between the two I'd take Netscape-- a little bloat never hurt anyone.

**JoshT** · Nov 4th, 2002, 11:29 PM

Originally posted by Jungle-Man
I think Opera and Netscape are tied for the worst browsers known to man.

Netscape is buggy and crashes often, not to mention bloated. Opera isn't bloated, but has a horrible rendering engine.

Given the choice between the two I'd take Netscape-- a little bloat never hurt anyone.

The newest version of Opera is fine. Its windowing system is a lot better than the tabs of Mozilla based browsers, although I do like Mozilla better. Netscape itself has been pretty much turned into an irrelevant marketing tool for AOL-Time Warner.

**JungleMan** · Nov 5th, 2002, 12:23 AM

Originally posted by JoshT
The newest version of Opera is fine. Its windowing system is a lot better than the tabs of Mozilla based browsers, although I do like Mozilla better. Netscape itself has been pretty much turned into an irrelevant marketing tool for AOL-Time Warner.

I have the latest version of Opera, and it is not a good browser, not nearly as good as IE. Moz on the other hand stands a flying chance.

I still like IE the best though.

**The Hobo** · Nov 5th, 2002, 12:39 AM

My favorite thing about IE is when it gets an illegal error and decides it needs to restart explorer.exe too, causing all my tray icons to disappear.

Probably an ME thing rather than IE, but MS deserves a b-slap for it.

**Beacon** · Nov 5th, 2002, 12:57 AM

Remember you'll need to set IE5 as your deafult browser after you re-install it!

Jungletits: You'll never learn will u!

**JoshT** · Nov 5th, 2002, 10:48 AM

Originally posted by The Hobo
My favorite thing about IE is when it gets an illegal error and decides it needs to restart explorer.exe too, causing all my tray icons to disappear.

Probably an ME thing rather than IE, but MS deserves a b-slap for it.

I'm twice had a Windows Update IE upgrade prevent Explorer from running at all.

**JungleMan** · Nov 5th, 2002, 09:37 PM

Originally posted by Beacon
Remember you'll need to set IE5 as your deafult browser after you re-install it!

Jungletits: You'll never learn will u!

No, as you can see, I can't learn to use an inferior browser

**Michael_Kamen** · Nov 6th, 2002, 05:08 PM

Originally posted by The Hobo
My favorite thing about IE is when it gets an illegal error and decides it needs to restart explorer.exe too, causing all my tray icons to disappear.

Probably an ME thing rather than IE, but MS deserves a b-slap for it.

Well, I like IE 6 very much because it always asks you to send private information to MS if it has crashed again.....

**The Hobo** · Nov 6th, 2002, 05:46 PM

Originally posted by Michael_Kamen
Well, I like IE 6 very much because it always asks you to send private information to MS if it has crashed again.....

Hasn't asked me to do that yet. Just freezes and restarts Explorer all the time. Maybe I'm scrolling too fast or something?

**Michael_Kamen** · Nov 7th, 2002, 04:56 AM

No IE 6 gives always such a nice screen: "IE has conflicted and needs to be restarted. Do you want to send a report to MS containing information about the error? Click HERE"

And in the policy explanation for sending the error report it states that MS will take your creditcard number and add it to their db....

**Gandalf_Grey_** · Nov 7th, 2002, 09:02 AM

Mozilla > opera > IE

**Michael_Kamen** · Nov 7th, 2002, 10:22 AM

I tried Mozilla, but it looked just like Netscape. So it sucks.....

**techgnome** · Nov 7th, 2002, 10:38 AM

My browser evolution went like this:
IE3 > NS4 > NS4.7 > IE4 > IE5 > IE6 > Mozilla..... havent regretted the decision to go Mozilla. In fact I like it a lot better. No more pop up ads.
Sites load faster. And it's skinnable too... no longer looks like NS.

**DiGiTaIErRoR** · Nov 7th, 2002, 12:44 PM

I would have to say IE6 is the best browser, if your system doesn't suck.

**JungleMan** · Nov 7th, 2002, 06:26 PM

Originally posted by Gandalf_Grey_
Mozilla > opera > IE

IE and Mozilla, close tie but I think IE is better

Opera just plain sucks

**Pc_Madness** · Nov 8th, 2002, 12:09 AM

Where can I get this "Mozilla" ?

Seriously.. I went to the site, and wasn't sure what I was meant to download.

**techgnome** · Nov 8th, 2002, 09:11 AM

Originally posted by Pc_Madness
Where can I get this "Mozilla" ?

Seriously.. I went to the site, and wasn't sure what I was meant to download.

Goto http://www.mozilla.org/
On the right is the download section. Just select the proper OS and version you want (1.1 has some fixes from 1.0.1 - and I would quite recommend 1.2 just yet)

**The Hobo** · Nov 8th, 2002, 09:22 AM

Where can I get IE from?

**Michael_Kamen** · Nov 8th, 2002, 09:31 AM

www.microstuf.com

**JoshT** · Nov 11th, 2002, 08:21 PM

Originally posted by techgnome
My browser evolution went like this:
IE3 > NS4 > NS4.7 > IE4 > IE5 > IE6 > Mozilla..... havent regretted the decision to go Mozilla. In fact I like it a lot better. No more pop up ads.
Sites load faster. And it's skinnable too... no longer looks like NS.

I personally went
Mosaic > NS1 > NS2 > NS3 > NS4 > IE5 > IE5.5 > IE6 > Mozilla > Phoenix
and I've intermittantly used Lynx in there somewhere.

**Pc_Madness** · Nov 11th, 2002, 08:27 PM

Originally posted by techgnome
Goto http://www.mozilla.org/
On the right is the download section. Just select the proper OS and version you want (1.1 has some fixes from 1.0.1 - and I would quite recommend 1.2 just yet)

talkback enabled Full Installer .exe (10.6 MB) for reporting crash data. If you don't understand what the other Win32 builds are, then get this build. Also available in

That the one?

**JoshT** · Nov 11th, 2002, 08:32 PM

Originally posted by Pc_Madness
That the one?

Yeah, for Mozilla. I've Mozilla runs a little faster if you do a custom install and install as little as possible, but I've tried it and it doesn't seem to make a difference to me. However, enabled HTTP pipelining in the options does make a difference.

If you are interested, the Mozilla based Phoenix browser comes as a zip file you can just unzip and run, no install needed. You can install that and Mozilla at the same time. You can even install multiple versions of Mozilla if you install to different folders each time.

Phoenix:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/phoe...s.html#install

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