Having problems with explorer 7 beta

Lord_Chris

MercilessKiller wrote:

add/remove programs I'm assuming? Or IE6 is still installed somewhere...

unless microsoft have improved their beta software, you will have to use system restore... i know that with ie 7 and media player 11 betas i couldnt remove using add/remove ... stupid microsoft not including an uninstall feature :mad:

Lord_Chris

leesmithg wrote:

Yes netscape was the big browser before IE.

The standards agency more or less liken the code to mozilla/netscape thats why IE users do suffer from viewing webs sometimes.

you talk some right crap sometimes

MercilessKiller

Lord_Chris wrote:

you talk some right crap sometimes

Ok. Another way to re-phrase that..

"As long as windows has been around so has Internet Explorer.. thus most web pages are designed for compatibility with this though now most will do for that and Mozilla of course. Netscape has never had a strong hold on the market due to the none big differences between that and other broswers... only MAC users which is a small percent of all computer users will use Netscape"

donglefan

Thank you for those funny replies.

I've checked and there is an uninstall option for explorer 7 beta, but I've remembered that Quidco told me on no account to delete cookies if I want my cashback to come through, so I suppose I'm stuck with ie7.

By the way, how do I delete cookies selectively on explorer? - easy to do on firefox, but on explorer i can only find the option to delete the lot.

leesmithg

tools>internet options>settings>view files

leesmithg

MercilessKiller wrote:

Ok. Another way to re-phrase that..

"As long as windows has been around so has Internet Explorer.. thus most web pages are designed for compatibility with this though now most will do for that and Mozilla of course. Netscape has never had a strong hold on the market due to the none big differences between that and other broswers... only MAC users which is a small percent of all computer users will use Netscape"

Windows never came with IE when windows was first released.

First time a browser was introduced was in windows 95.

I was a beta tester for I.E. 5 when it was released early in 1998, so near 8 years on they are running beta 3 IE 7.

Netscape was the first big player in the browser wars.

MercilessKiller

leesmithg wrote:

Netscape was the first big player in the browser wars.

....no it wasn't.

Lets not argue but unless you give me statistics saying more people used netscape than IE than I don't believe what you're saying.

Netscape was never pre compiled into windows. by the time windows got popular it had IE. only AOL and MACS use netscape which is a minority of users.

IE has always been the big player. Netscape has always been a competitor.. used to be a big competitor but never as big as IE.

superscaper

leesmithg wrote:

Windows never came with IE when windows was first released.

First time a browser was introduced was in windows 95.

I was a beta tester for I.E. 5 when it was released early in 1998, so near 8 years on they are running beta 3 IE 7.

Netscape was the first big player in the browser wars.

First browser I ever used was Argonet's Voyager for the Acorn about 1995/6. :eek:

leesmithg

MercilessKiller wrote:

....no it wasn't.

Lets not argue but unless you give me statistics saying more people used netscape than IE than I don't believe what you're saying.

Netscape was never pre compiled into windows. by the time windows got popular it had IE. only AOL and MACS use netscape which is a minority of users.

IE has always been the big player. Netscape has always been a competitor.. used to be a big competitor but never as big as IE.

Mozilla. In October, 1994, Netscape released the the first beta version of their browser, Mozilla 0.96b, over the Internet. On December 15, the final version was released, Mozilla 1.0, making it the first commercial web browser. An open source version of the Netscape browser was released in 2002 was also named Mozilla in tribute to this early version, and then released as the quickly popular FireFox in November, 2004.

Internet Explorer. On August 23rd, 1995, Microsoft released their Windows 95 operating system, including a Web browser called Internet Explorer. By the fall of 1996, Explorer had a third of market share, and passed Netscape to became the leading web browser in 1999.
Many other browsers were also developed in the 1990's to address niche requirements, several of which are listed below:

Historical Web Browsers

Active Worlds
NetAttache

Air_Mosaic
NETCOMplete

Amiga
NetCruiser

EI*Net
NetManage Chameleon

EmailSiphon
NetPositive

Enhanced NCSA Mosaic
PlanetWeb

GetRight
Quarterdeck WebC

HotJava
SPRY_Mosaic

IBM WebExplorer
Spyglass Enhanced Mosaic

internetMCI
TueV Mosaic for X

IWENG
WWWC

MacWeb


Resources. The following references provide more information about browser history:

Browser applications -- lists sites that keep track of the different types of browsers which access them.
evolt Browser archive -- contains a comprehensive repository of older browser applications.
DejaVu.org -- maintains a browser history timeline and a fascinating set of older browser emulators.

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