Alternatives to Internet Explorer & Outlook Ex

Finishrich

Can anyone recommend an alternative web browser to Microsofts Internet Explorer and also an alternative to Microsofts Outlook Express for email?

mrvolleyball

As an alternative to IE - I have recently switched to Mozilla Firefox and really like it. Got a built in pop-up blocker (I know they have included one for IE with the latest service pack for Win XP), and I like the tabbed browsing (hard to explain so I won't even try :-) ) Also seems to be faster than IE. You should have a look.

Hope this helps. I'm not sure on alternatives to Outlook Express - sorry.

Finishrich

Thanks I'll have a look at that.

steeev

Can anyone recommend an alternative web browser to Microsofts Internet Explorer and also an alternative to Microsofts Outlook Express for email?

Have to agree with mr VB, firefox rocks. The people who brought out Firefox have also got an email client called Thunderbird, which is worth checking out too.

http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/

peter_the_piper

Fire fox is great and can't be recommended enpough.It does not suffer from the security holes that I.E does and looks better.You can easily set up Firefox to be the default browser but unfortunately I.E must be left on the system. Whats more you can speed up loading times as follows:
1. Type "about:config" in the adress field.
2. Set the value of network.http.pipelining to "true".
3. Set the value of network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to "100".
4. Set the value of network.http.proxy.pipelining to "true"
5. Set the value of nglayout.initialpaint.delay to "0"

Once you have become more adventureous try these others, treat these with more caution.http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=53650&postdays=0&postorder=asc&postsperpage=15&start=0


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lellie

mozilla but it's an !!!!!! to design for.. It's nice and secure..

I wish all the browsers were the same!!! Spent hours deciding what is the best way to get over the broken box model..

Coldfinger

Try Eudora mail instead of Outlook Express

http://www.eudora.com/

F1F1

Also Opera. <browser> Tabbed windows, fast, etc.

http://www.opera.com/

SONIC_2

You could also try good old NetScape. Several of the online banks now fully support it, adn quite a few sites load considerably quicker than when using IE.

https://www.netscape.com

isasmurf

Fire fox is great and can't be recommended enpough.It does not suffer from the security holes that I.E does and looks better.

No it might not have the same security holes as IE - it has it's own totally different ones. Firefox has racked up more security advisories than IE, in half the time. Admittedly, it fixes them a lot quicker than MS does.

Fran

I use Mozilla Firefox and prefer it to IE. Also using Thunderbird.