Which Is Your Favourite Web Browser?

[Java Boy]

I use MYIE2 which is based on IE6 engine, with a few differences(dont ask me what exactly cause I havent been using it long)
it has tabbed browsing etc, and a lot of features that mozilla has etc.
But the standout point I thought, was that it lets u access Windows update.It supposedly has a lot less Securtiy flaws in it than IE6...
I like it so i uninstalled Internet Explorer 6 as i can access windows update without the need to have IIE6 installed

[zapjb]

MYIE2, Avant & a bunch of other "browsers" are NOT browsers. They are IE add-ons and will NOT work without IE installed. Mozilla, FireFox & others are independent browsers. As is Opera as well. I use Opera 7.23 wo java 99% of the time & IE6 1%.

[Illuminati]

Originally posted by Java Boy@18 February 2004 - 20:16
So how do all the mozilla/opera users access it is what im wondering? Or dont they update?

You answered your own question.

Due to the unfortunate (and some may say monopolistic ) circumstance that IE in an integrated and unremovable part of Windows (unless you use some kind of radical "surgery" program like XPlite), every Windows users has IE installed. However, like many others, a program installed isn't the same as a program used; it's inability to p*** off is the only reason it sits on a few people's computers still.

As for Windows Update, truth be told the matter isn't really that big a deal; many get the updates manually by downloading the patches and running them locally. The rest just don't bother - I haven't used Windows Update since the start of November. Surprisingly though, my versions of ZoneAlarm and Norton Antivirus are reguarly updated - As they seem to do a lot better role in making security holes unusable than Microsoft's "hotfixes" seem to do

[Java Boy]

Originally posted by zapjb@18 February 2004 - 21:14
MYIE2, Avant & a bunch of other "browsers" are NOT browsers. They are IE add-ons and will NOT work without IE installed. Mozilla, FireFox & others are independent browsers. As is Opera as well. I use Opera 7.23 wo java 99% of the time & IE6 1%.

I dont have Internet Explorer installed so how is MYIE2 an "add-on" as you put it?
Its based on the engine though(IE6 engine)

[zapjb]

Believe it or not. You didn't uninstall IE or MYIE2 wouldn't work. "Based on the IE engine", means it's being used. So it's still installed. Sure you went through all the normal process to uninstall IE, but that doesn't work with IE. IE's still on your computer.

[Java Boy]

Internet explorer isnt, but the engine is...

[zapjb]

I'm not explaining this well, sorry. There is a way to totally uninstall IE (read: rip it out of your OS). But this is not not advisable as many programs such as KL, Avant browser, MYIE2 and others would not run. You might have disabled IE, but you didn't uninstall IE.

[Java Boy]

I go to programfiles/internet explorer and its empty......????
I have shortcuts for it in my start menu(pinned in XP) and click on it and guess what?..it tells me the shortcut points to nowhere......Thats because i uninstalled it...
What it left behind during the uninstall is the "ENGINE" that IE6 uses as well as MYIE2..
I can-not launch a Internet Explorer browser because its no longer there.
Hope I made that explanation easier to understand

[zapjb]

Maybe Illuminati Posted on 18 February 2004 - 16:18 said it better.

Due to the unfortunate (and some may say monopolistic ) circumstance that IE in an integrated and unremovable part of Windows (unless you use some kind of radical "surgery" program like XPlite), every Windows users has IE installed. However, like many others, a program installed isn't the same as a program used; it's inability to p*** off is the only reason it sits on a few people's computers still.

So unless you did something like that, IE is still installed on your computer. Disabled yes/maybe but still installed none the less.

[shn]

Originally posted by Java Boy@18 February 2004 - 13:16
So how do all the mozilla/opera users access it is what im wondering? Or dont they update?

We have been over this before.

LMAO................Im sure you have sense enough to know that people with windows do not have to use windows update site as most of the critical updates can be downloaded from Microsoft's Download Site and "not" windows update site using ie.