[pchelpers] Re: K-Meleon Browser

  • From: "rweyer" <rweyer@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 23:25:05 -0600

Please correct me if I'm wrong here.  There are really only two browsers.
Mozilla & IE.  The others listed are just variations of these two.  That is
unless you go to a mack or run Linux oe Unix on a PC.

It seems all of the variations have problems.

Bob Weyer

>
> Avant seems to just be an extension of IE so it's just as insecure as IE
> and as much a hog of system resources.
>
> http://ashitaka-san.home.comcast.net/yayrant/ieharmful.html
> Internet Explorer Considered Harmful
>
> Internet Explorer does not empty browser cache correctly:
> http://www.microsuck.com/content/ms-hidden-files.shtml
>
> I haven't tried K-Meleon yet, but it's based on Mozilla 1.5 and is
> therefore a much better choice.
>
> Mozilla Firebird is the browser of the future, a further development of
> Mozilla, PCWorld's Best of 2003 browser
> (www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,110653,pg,11,00.asp) with
> industry-leading standards compliance.
>
> Firebird and Thunderbird are already the best browser and e-mail
> programs even though they're officially still in the predevelopment stage.
>



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