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To: Dave Hanson who wrote (2741)	10/4/1998 7:21:00 PM
From: mr.mark	Respond to of 14778

"Survey: what browsers are most stable for you, and when/how?" dave, i've found netscape to be more stable than internet explorer. however, i was able to alleviate a great many of my crashes by installing norton's utilities 3.0. now i've mentioned norton's from time to time here, and there are those who feel that the software causes as many problems as it solves, but i'm not one of them. the very first time that i ran norton's windoctor, it discovered and fixed 54 windows95 problems. immediately my system became less "crashy". to my limited knowledge, i'd have to believe that some, if not a great many, of our "browser" problems may in fact be operating system errors. do you think that this is possible? in any case, i wanted to share with you my satisfaction with norton's utilities 3.0. btw, i also intalled their antivirus 4.0 deluxe, and feel that it is protecting my system as well as any AV software available. good luck with your problem. mr.mark

To: Dave Hanson who wrote (2741)	10/4/1998 7:33:00 PM
From: Dan Spangenberg	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

For me IE 4.01 is best. Netscape did have more of a problem when I used it. I am running NT 4.0 also. Rarely do I have 12 windows open, but quite often 5-7. Crashes are very infrequent, sometimes I'll get one during a long surfing session, many hours, but usually it performs flawlessly. When IE does crash, it does take down all browser windows just like netscape. But as you know, NT isolates the crash and the system keeps on running stable without a reboot. NT is worth it for this alone IMHO. Give IE a try, I bet you'll like it. Good Luck Dan

To: Dave Hanson who wrote (2741)	10/4/1998 8:01:00 PM
From: Dave Bissett	Respond to of 14778

I'm running IE4.72 under Win95 and have never had a crash...my browser usage isn't as heavy as yours, however....at most 5 windows plus an RT data window...and I can't compare to Navigator because I've never use it but I've never had a crash in IE. I can't remember when I downloaded this version but it was fairly recently, like in the past 2-3 months. Dave

To: Dave Hanson who wrote (2741)	10/5/1998 2:30:00 AM
From: Alf	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Survey: what browsers are most stable for you, and when/how? Dave If you have never tried Opera I would recommend that you give it a try. They offer a 30 day trial. I use it all day long and it NEVER crashes It has options that still are not in either Netscape or I.E. It does have it's drawbacks - no Java & no mail but with the sites that I use for daytrading this is not a problem and Eudora light solves the mail problem operasoftware.com eudora.com fwiw I use Netscape 4.06 the rest of the time and it does cause some problems on occasion Good luck Tim

To: Dave Hanson who wrote (2741)	10/6/1998 4:45:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Dave, Try IE and see what happens. I have similar problems. Netscape support SUCKS!!!!. The won't look at dump files (despite that fact that my company owns 15,000+ Licensed copies of their browser and runs their server software exclusively). They built me a custom version with debug information and I crashed it repeatedly. The basic stance is that I couldn't deterministrically reproduce the problem so they had no interest in fixing it desptite the tons of core files I could generate. Pissed off VP's at both companies in the process. Netscape SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have good luck with IE. I also have good luck with Opera. Hot Java I have never really worked with. You ought to try opera. Its very fast at what it does... Sean