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To: KailuaBoy who wrote (19872)	2/28/2000 4:15:00 PM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

Did GE expect the first microwave oven users to run baked potato comparisons across platforms? Actually when those things first came out they didn't really have much consistancy in the way that they cooked. My brother-in-law, the food guy, did what could only be considered some of the early beta testing on microwaves (for cooking purposes). They threw just about everything in there and blew up quite a few of them. Why should you as a consumer be performing speed comparisons with multiple browsers? I'm more a user than a geek, but if I want to, I can geek it up with the best of them. There was a noticable difference in speed, not a small difference, otherwise I'd never have bothered testing it. gpowell's idea that it had to do with the speed of the proxy server is correct....but I'd have to turn off the proxy each and every time I'd start the @Home browser. There is obviously some kind of startup routine built into their browser that resets the preferences to use the proxy server. That and the fact that the navigation bar keeps disappearing (this is not a joke, it comes up but there are no tools on it) has driven me to using IE5 straight to the web. I have work to do. Now how do you think a less sophisticated user would react to these kinds of problems? While I'm in a bitching kind of mood. How would you feel if you got several emails that were over a few weeks old and one that was three weeks old? For those of you that are tempted to defend, the person sending them also had @Home service. I guess they are trying really hard to be like AOL and this is what we get. ATHM won't do anything with content creation that 1,000 geeks in their bedrooms on prom night couldn't do. So you didn't go to your prom night either?