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MSIE 5.2 for Mac OS X Released

Posted by pudge on from the goes-down-faster-and-smoother-with-less-crashy-aftertaste dept.

Jarrett writes "MSIE 5.2 now supports Quartz text smoothing and a slew of other reliability/security [hehe] improvements on Mac OS X. Its performance is noticably better, it seems to end the spinning beach ball problems, and is stable. It's available on Microsoft's Mactopia site" Posted With Mozilla(tm) on Mac OS X.

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  1. Don't know about IE but.... by crawdad62 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I swear I found that Entourage is faster. Not sure why but the IE update made it very noticeable. As far as IE is concerned I haven't found anything to it. Mine was always rock solid and Silk already handled the smoothing.

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