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Triple-Engine Browser Released As Alpha
jcasman passes along a heads-up on Lunascape, a Japanese browser company that is releasing its first English version of its Lunascape 5 triple-engine browser. It's for XP and Vista only. There are reviews up at CNET, OStatic (quoted below), and Lifehacker. Both the reviews and comments point out that, in its current alpha state, the browser is buggy and not very fast; but it might be one to watch. "How many web browsers do you run? If you're like me, you regularly use Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome and Safari. Each of those browsers, of course, has its own underlying rendering engine: Gecko (in Firefox), Trident (in Internet Explorer), and Webkit (in Chrome and Safari). Today, a Japanese startup called Lunascape has released an alpha version of its Lunascape browser ... that allows you to switch between all three of these prominent rendering engines. The company says that the Japanese version of Lunascape has been downloaded 10 million times and touts it as the fastest browser available."
If you ever visit Korean sites, they are chock full of ActiveX crap. If you ever want to be able to navigate them properly, your only chance is to run Internet Explorer.
If you use Firefox but need to use IE from time to time, I *highly* recommend the IE Tab Firefox Extension. I never used to use it because I figured it'd be too much of a bloat or hassle, but it really works *great*. I encourage you to use it if you ever have to open an IE window.
The Korean government mandates that ActiveX crap.
I use IE Tab Firefox Extension and it is a life saver for me. There are a couple of important pages on my company's intranet that require IE (yes, ActiveX crap). Not only can I have a one tab running the IE rendered while the rest of my tabs are using whatever the native Firefox rendered is, but you can configure the extension to always use IE for specific pages so once you configure that you don't have to remember which pages need IE.
It "works" like slashdot's new CSS stuff: run like hell!
Table-ized A.I.
The difference between OWA in IE and other browsers is quite a lot. Drag and drop, advanced editing features, better overall interface..
They've improved OWA for non-IE browsers in Exchange 2007 but it's just a joke. There's no reason they can't make OWA with all the bells and whistles by using standard web browser features. I've seen it done on some other web mail clients. Microsoft is a joke when it comes to their obvious attempts to force people to use their browser.
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They already have plugins for IE and opera rendering engines for firefox. And I think one for webkit will appear very soon as well, so I really don't see the need for switching to anything over firefox.
No, he's not. It's great for web development too:
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/1419
But note one typical but totally crazy thing: IE behaves slightly different, when used in an embedded way. (Like in IE Tab or those "Browsers" that internally use IE.)
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