Internet explorer bugs?

[rharder]

I also suffer from the localhost bug in IE 5.1.

-Rob

[macgeek]

I'm having a slightly different problem with IE. Whenever I download software, it tries to launch the Classic environment. I figure it's trying to launch a Classic version of Stuffit Expander or something. I've tried to turn off "post-process" files but it hasn't worked. I've tried to disassociate file types from Stuffit Expander, but that hasn't worked either. Any ideas? Thanks.

--Macgeek

[rharder]

My fix for that particular problem was to destroy my classic version of stuffit expander. I stuffed it up. That way the only *.sit (etc) handler is your new OS X version.


-Rob

[spike666]

my qt plugin works fine...

the only difference is that i plugged in my qt3/qt4 pro registration key...

flash works fine on my ie too.
one workaround i found for teh stuffit thing, is to go into file handlers and turn off all the stuffit launching. so it just saves to a f ile, and then i manually open the files.


regarding the other native browsers, i've run icab and omniweb, as well as the fizzilla port of mozilla.

my findings are that omniweb looks really nice (fonts are nice) icab works decently and fizilla is a bit uh... unpolished. icab and omniweb dont do java that well either.

i think ie is pretty good. wish it had the xml stuff tho...

[rharder]

Yeah, I wish IE had the XML/XSL capabilities that IE for Windows has.

At least it has JavaScript support.

I know a lot of fools use JavaScript where you don't need it anyway, but the phpMyAdmin (or is is myPhpAdmin) too uses it, and I can't live without it.

-Rob

[monty]

Umm you are using OmniWeb 4.0cf3 aren't you? It is stable and fast for me. I gave up on the OSX version of IE because IT was too slow.

One thing I've noticed is that mileage for all of OSX is really varying for different people. I wonder what is up with that. Some people saying X is slow and Y is fast while others are having the opposite problem.

peter

[flash]

iCab pre 2.4 -- good and fast, but crashes at inopportune times. Often crashes when I hit cmd-f for find. Actually, found it too unstable to use often. Still waiting for a stable version; loved it under 9 -- so fast and sleek.

OmniWeb 4.0 -- crashes about once every 2 days of hard and ongoing use. Because it is so aqua-compliant, and its features are totally cool, I use this browser most of the time.
LOVE: View source with Omniweb... you can tweak the HTML and then re-render the new code in the browser, without saving or connecting to the server. If you're a programmer, you can change the program on the server, and then "refetch" the HTML source and see the difference. Command-click a link opens up a browser *behind* the active one (like duh! why didn't anybody think of this sooner?).

Explorer -- I don't find it slow. I don't find it unstable (it's crashed a few times in the last 14 days). It's the only browser that can connect reliably to my cable-modem. The only strange thing is that I can't cut-and-paste into or out of the browser!! E.g. -- no cutting/pasting of urls from a different program and pasting into IE.
I have had none of the problems with IE which other people have apparently had. The thing is, OmniWeb's features are so convenient, it makes IE look doofy and unfinished.