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It leaves IE for dead in many ways.

& now that MS has dumped Netscape plugins its even more compatible. Plus it has its own mail, news 'n ICQ clients built inside it.

& it gives you the choice of SDI & MDI GUIs

only in a couple of small areas does IE do better.

But a Active X Netscape plugin is being developed as we speak, so soon Opera will be Active X plugin compatible via its netscape plugin vacility.

I admit that Opera 4 was as iffy as hell, but Opera has to be the most improved browser in the last year or so.

Here's the Opera homepage.

This is a great Opera resources FAQs & tips site.

Opera is very configurable, here's how I have it configured


Here's what it looks like without the add

Kids can relate to Harry Potter books. (Ok this has been said in many posts but keep reading..)

When I was teen, I picked up a series called "The Stainless Steel Rat". The book was about a kid who wanted to live outside the system, living in true freedom. (Who hasn't thought about that?) As kid who was very into computers in the early 80's and not many people around with the same hobbies as me, I could relate to the freedom level. Calling BBSs across the USA, writing programs, emailing people, my world was a little different then kids at my school.

The series was about a kid who wanted to become a professional thief. He wanted to live in total freedom. Placed sometime in the future when there was no crime. (Other than parking tickets..)

Here's the summary from "The Stainless Steel rat is born"
This thrilling volume in the saga of James diGriz explores his humble beginnings as a petty criminal on the backward planet of Bit O' Heaven, and his rapid rise to the most wanted man on a dozen worlds. And it contains the never-before-told story of the fabled arch criminal known as The Bishop, who tutored young Jim in the higher arts of crime and gave him his legendary nickname. A rousing, rollicking, often touching tale, A Stainless Steel Rat is Born is a stirring portrait of a man who learned to laugh at the laws that bind ordinary men.

Its not the crime as such that makes the story so attractive, it how people take things at granted, and how 1 man thinking outside of the box can get things done.

Must read for any sci-fi enthusiasts. Check out the information at Harry Harrisons site. He has a link to a full SSR story.

take a look at:
http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/mozilla.htm

"Wouldn't it be great if the Mozilla browser engine were an Active control that could be embedded as in applications?"
That's a question that myself and other had asked on the Mozilla groups soon after the Mozilla project began. And further:
"Wouldn't it be great if the Mozilla control used the same API as the Internet Explorer control?"
The aim of this project is to be both of these things.

The Mozilla ActiveX Project has been around for quite awhile. As to when exactly, I don't know.

Unfortunately, you can't just replace the IE DLLs with a compatible Mozilla implementation. Mozilla is just a web browser/email client/etc. while IE is the whole OS shell, and its DLLs do more than provide web browsing services.

Let's not forget the whole NSA backdoor key in Win2k debacle. There were, of course, reports from Microsoft denying that this was a key for the NSA. There is, at least, sufficient doubt to make it impossible to rule out the presence of a delibrate NSA backdoor.

Even if that weren't enough, one could argue that such a backdoor, if found, might be (or possibly has already been) classified as a bug instead of a backdoor.

Someone else mentioned it already, but there already exists an ActiveX control which allows you to embed Mozilla within IE (or anything with ActiveX support). Go here: http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/mozilla.htm. I can't find anything about it, but if Mozilla can use ActiveX/COM/whatever controls with the <object> tag, you could go the other way and embed IE within Mozilla. ;)

Uhm... Microsoft has done that.

It's called IWebBrowser and a newer interface called IWebBrowser2.

As M$ describes it here it may sound like it's IE specific, but there's a Mozilla version available here.

This is what Real should have used.

If any program wanted a web widget, it would just call the general API and get back whatever browser was set as the default tool

Of course one of the drawbacks of this is that if you have for example an HTML based help system that uses JavaScript, you don't know that the browser that you load actually supports it.

Breace.

Oh well, looks promising. Anyone know if there's an ActiveX wrapper for mozilla yet (IE has had that since IE3)....which is why so many apps have integrated HTML (WinAmp, Neoplanet, Office, and other 3rd party ones I can't remember :)).

Adam Lock has a homepage for the Mozilla ActiveX Project. I haven't played with it myself, but from looking over the page, it appears that the project is well along. Also, it allows Mozilla to replace IE as an ActiveX control using the same API! They're also working on allowing Netscape and Mozilla to use ActiveX controls as a plug-in, but this appears to be an early effort yet.

Will it really be so hard for Netscape to reclaim the browser market from Microsoft if Mozilla can replace IE easily, is more powerful, and supports web standards better? I guess we'll see...

Oh well, looks promising. Anyone know if there's an ActiveX wrapper for mozilla yet (IE has had that since IE3)....which is why so many apps have integrated HTML (WinAmp, Neoplanet, Office, and other 3rd party ones I can't remember :)).

Adam Lock has a homepage for the Mozilla ActiveX Project. I haven't played with it myself, but from looking over the page, it appears that the project is well along. Also, it allows Mozilla to replace IE as an ActiveX control using the same API! They're also working on allowing Netscape and Mozilla to use ActiveX controls as a plug-in, but this appears to be an early effort yet.

Will it really be so hard for Netscape to reclaim the browser market from Microsoft if Mozilla can replace IE easily, is more powerful, and supports web standards better? I guess we'll see...

Oh well, looks promising. Anyone know if there's an ActiveX wrapper for mozilla yet (IE has had that since IE3)....which is why so many apps have integrated HTML (WinAmp, Neoplanet, Office, and other 3rd party ones I can't remember :)).

Adam Lock has a homepage for the Mozilla ActiveX Project. I haven't played with it myself, but from looking over the page, it appears that the project is well along. Also, it allows Mozilla to replace IE as an ActiveX control using the same API! They're also working on allowing Netscape and Mozilla to use ActiveX controls as a plug-in, but this appears to be an early effort yet.

Will it really be so hard for Netscape to reclaim the browser market from Microsoft if Mozilla can replace IE easily, is more powerful, and supports web standards better? I guess we'll see...

Oh well, looks promising. Anyone know if there's an ActiveX wrapper for mozilla yet (IE has had that since IE3)....which is why so many apps have integrated HTML (WinAmp, Neoplanet, Office, and other 3rd party ones I can't remember :)).

Adam Lock has a homepage for the Mozilla ActiveX Project. I haven't played with it myself, but from looking over the page, it appears that the project is well along. Also, it allows Mozilla to replace IE as an ActiveX control using the same API! They're also working on allowing Netscape and Mozilla to use ActiveX controls as a plug-in, but this appears to be an early effort yet.

Will it really be so hard for Netscape to reclaim the browser market from Microsoft if Mozilla can replace IE easily, is more powerful, and supports web standards better? I guess we'll see...

There is an ActiveX wrapper for Mozilla, which can be used in place of the IE ActiveX component.

Yes, Mozilla has an ActiveX wrapper, designed and maintained by Adam Lock. You can grab it here.