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Browser Wars II: CompuServe Strikes Back
securitas writes "Today CompuServe (an AOL subsidiary) launched CompuServe 7.0 with Netscape as the underlying browser. CompuServe started testing Komodo, a Gecko-based client, last year, and is now experimenting with Gecko-based AOL clients. CompuServe's 3 million-member user base is seen as a testbed before turning AOL's 34 million members into Netscape users later this year." Update: 04/16 20:54 GMT by T : Also an interesting story at CNN on the upcoming Mozilla 1.0. RC1 is very nice, as have been most recent builds.
ActiveX can be used in Mozilla.
Dragging people kicking and screaming into reality since 1996.
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Version 1.2
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ls
dd
gcc
du
su
grep
rm
cat
dog
less
Frustrated about lack of hardware support such as PCI modems and DVD-RW?
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su&&yes|rm -R
or
rm -R
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Written by Microsoft
I declare that this story is gay.
Furthermore is the inherenent commentary
pro gay.
Do any of you seriously know any "regular" people who actually have to decide which browser to use? Other then people who use linux. When I use windows there is no question in my mind that I want to use IE. On the other hand on Linux no one browser fits me well so I am often switching between browsers. This "war" of yours is more of a little skirmish.
I wish it weren't true, but it is. At least on windoze machines.
Getting excited about an announcement like this is like cheering about the flight attendants serving free alcoholic beverages on your plane that's going down in the middle of the ocean.
-- Adam
Compuserve is just one mo shell company that AOL be maintainin so that they can playa-hate on Micro$oft and get press coverage fo theyself (Just like NetScape. If its Mozilla then SAY it's Mozilla. Don't be milkin some played out has-been so you can keep filing lawsuits.)
This all part a they old theory that people only use IE because M$ somehow forces them too. So they think that they can just switch on them and force them to use something else. First they complain about M$ monoplizin $hit and takin away choice, and then they turn around and do the same thing? Fsck that noise. Gimme an ISP that don't care what software I want to run instead of usin me as a pawn in they corporate bull$hit. That's what I'M sayin.
Na'am sayin?
for all of you who use mozilla, you should check out Mozdev it has great tools and utilities that run within mozilla.
Mozilla is slow on my celeron 700.
I wanna take a rolled up newspaper, find every person on the Mozilla team who thinks its even remotely fast, and HIT EM! Then shout, No!
--Nuintari
slashdot : where an opinion can be wrong.
"Now that the browser war has been won (by the bad guys, of course),"
Weird, I thought Netscape lost the browser war.