xircon Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 Yes I am spending the afternoon surfing the web again!! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5305250.stm Personally I can't see me dumping firefox and firefox can be setup to do what this program says it can do. Just another entry into a crowded marketplace. Also it is so small it must be using the IE rendereing engine yuck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LL200 Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 but the media have latched onto it like the scrotum-lice they are, whilst not fully understanding anything. at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savannah2 Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 Correct, the minimum system requirements on their homepage is W98SE and IE5.5 which would imply to me that it uses IE modules to render. Have tried it on an XP install were IE has been uninstalled , Browzar doesn't work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
esme Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 but the media have latched onto it like the scrotum-lice they are, whilst not fully understanding anything. at all. you have a wonderfully descriptive turn of phrase there, mind if I use it sometime Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
esme Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 I believe it relies on IE and is more of an addon than anything else Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carcrash Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 Seems pointless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fnkysknky Posted September 3, 2006 Share Posted September 3, 2006 I saw it on the news the other day and wondered why it had actually made the news.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeP Posted September 3, 2006 Share Posted September 3, 2006 Sav, You're right - indeed it does use IE as an ActiveX component. Hell, I wrote soemthing similar to this for a client a few years back! It's not going to be any more secure or private than IE is if you use IE properly and clean up after you. Why the media have gone bananas on this I have no idea - I guess it's still the Silly Season. And LL200 - that's a great phrase, but what I saw in my mind's eye almost put me off my breakfast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeP Posted September 3, 2006 Share Posted September 3, 2006 Oops...the media are turning already. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5310114.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savannah2 Posted September 3, 2006 Share Posted September 3, 2006 Yes, I found this very true of the search engine that came with Browzar, a search for "Sheffield Forum" found it around 7th position, most Links above were irrelevant adverts. If you really need and like using IE then I would suggest looking at these two add on browsers Greenbrowser and Crazybrowser, of course there are plenty more available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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