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Cliff
Average Member
United States
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 Posted - 15 October 2004 : 11:29:46
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I am not looking to debate everyones favorite browser, I already started one of those earlier. 
I have tried a few IE derivations and also Firefox. While I have liked what most have offered, I still find IE the best overall. In particular when viewing one of my sites cold fusion pages that has a CFTEMPLATE embedded, the page won't load with FF. Also, I don't like that the people who write add-on toolbars, such as eBay and Google, don't write them for FF yet.
I would however like to add some of the features I saw in the others.
The most important is tabbed browsing. I also liked the bookmarks toolbar in FF.
Does anyone know if these are "add-on" items available anywhere for IE? |
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Ranko
Junior Member
400 Posts |
Posted - 15 October 2004 : 11:44:21
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Crazy browser is an IE shell for tabbed browsing. Google it.
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Cliff
Average Member
United States
501 Posts |
Posted - 15 October 2004 : 11:53:25
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I tried that one too. My favorite so far was Maxthon.
I'd like to stay with IE. There are some instances where other programs open IE by default even if I say to use a different browser. Also, other small quirks. |
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Ranko
Junior Member
400 Posts |
Posted - 15 October 2004 : 13:06:40
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Originally posted by Cliff
There are some instances where other programs open IE by default even if I say to use a different browser. Also, other small quirks.
If you are a Windows user; you do know that you have to change that in the Control Panel, Add/remove Programs, Set Program defaults? Right? |
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
9335 Posts |
Posted - 15 October 2004 : 17:30:36
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Actually Ranko, some programs seem to ignore that setting and open IE anyway. AIM is one of those annoying programs, but MSN Messenger keeps doing it too.
Personally I've been using NetCaptor (http://www.netcaptor.com) for a long time now and wouldn't want to do without anymore. Okay, it's not free, but it really does what they promise, support actually helps you instead of sending crappy auto-replies, and its tabbed browsing is better than that of any other "shell" I tried or even Firefox. |
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
7528 Posts |
Posted - 15 October 2004 : 19:04:15
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| Maxthon (myIE2) or Netcaptor would be my recommendations. |
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pdrg
Support Moderator
United Kingdom
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Ranko
Junior Member
400 Posts |
Posted - 19 October 2004 : 05:42:59
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Originally posted by Roland
Actually Ranko, some programs seem to ignore that setting and open IE anyway. AIM is one of those annoying programs, but MSN Messenger keeps doing it too.
Thanks, didn't know that one as I haven't used a messenger program in years. |
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
9335 Posts |
Posted - 19 October 2004 : 08:48:39
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I've been using a lot of messengers, including MSN Messenger in a dozen different languages (for bug hunting purposes lol). If you view someone's profile, it opens IE regardless of your preferred browser :(
YIM seems to be the only "major client" that actually behaves. |
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Hamlin
Advanced Member
United Kingdom
2386 Posts |
Posted - 19 October 2004 : 12:54:33
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Personally I've been using NetCaptor (http://www.netcaptor.com) for a long time now and wouldn't want to do without anymore. Okay, it's not free, but it really does what they promise, support actually helps you instead of sending crappy auto-replies, and its tabbed browsing is better than that of any other "shell" I tried or even Firefox.
I've been using Netcaptor for a while now as well. Its easily worth the $30 I paid for it.
In fact it was a topic like this on Snitz where I think Gremlin first recommended it. I was very upset when the free trial ran out and I realised I liked it too much to stop using it  . |
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ruirib
Snitz Forums Admin
Portugal
26364 Posts |
Posted - 20 October 2004 : 06:09:41
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Does Netcaptor support a personalized favorites menu like IE does? One of the features I like most in IE now is the ability to show me only the links I've used recently by default.
I've been trying with Netcaptor since yesterday, but that is usually too soon to see if it can handle it. |
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
9335 Posts |
Posted - 20 October 2004 : 07:36:53
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I'm not sure if Netcaptor uses/supports personalized favorites since I never use that feature. IMO it's too much of a PITA to get to the other items.
If you regularly visit the same sites it's great to set a CaptorGroup for all those sites so you can open them all at the same time. The pop-up and URL blockers really work great (I mainly use the URL blocker to get rid of banners), and since some time there's been support for the google toolbar. |
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Cliff
Average Member
United States
501 Posts |
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
9335 Posts |
Posted - 20 October 2004 : 09:02:32
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| At least as far as I know you can only change the colors of the inactive tabs, so in that regard it's not flexible. Perhaps you should just give the trial a go and see what you think. Of course it's still an IE shell, so the little extra speed Firefox gives (or seems to give) will be gone. |
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Cliff
Average Member
United States
501 Posts |
Posted - 20 October 2004 : 09:05:04
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Downloading the trial is a good idea, I'll try that tonight.
I love skinning though, so it will be a tough sell.
Thanks for the info Roland. |
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
9335 Posts |
Posted - 20 October 2004 : 09:22:53
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| Skinning is cool, but I tend to stick with the default looks of things (except WinAmp, though I haven't changed the skin there for months either). I read somewhere that a new version of NetCaptor will be coming out soon, but I'm not sure when that was supposed to happen... |
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