Which browser/version do you use - IE or Netscape?

Drew Howard · Post by **Drew Howard** » 14 May 2002 8:32 am

Forum,

What browser/version do you view the internet in?

I use Internet Explorer 6.0. I also occasionally use Netscape Communicator 4.5 but haven't updated it in years, so it's pretty worthless.

thanks,

Drew Howard

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Mark Ardito · Post by **Mark Ardito** » 14 May 2002 9:02 am

I use IE version 6.0

I can't stand Netscape, never have liked it.

Mark

Jim Phelps · Post by **Jim Phelps** » 14 May 2002 9:19 am

I use Netscape 4.08 for checking my webpages after finding that some Flash files which worked fine in IE and later Netscapes didn't show links in 4.08. I then check the pages in IE6, Netscape 4.77, 6.2 and Opera 6.01 and work on the pages until they look basically the same in all.

When doing personal websurfing I use IE6 most, merely because so many sites are built with Frontpage or use other Microsoft-type components that don't display properly in other browsers.

Here are some stats (two years old) from Aneas.net page http://aneas.net/articles/_Browser_Popularity.asp I'll replace with newer stats when I find them.

Browser Popularity

The global stats for browser popularity was taken from
http://www.thecounter.com/, where, for October 2000, they
show Browser Stats for 554,519,878 Visits to over a million
sites from Sun Oct 1 00:01:03 2000 through
Tue Oct 31 23:59:08 2000 (31.0 Days)

1. MSIE 5.x 369341075 (66%)
2. MSIE 4.x 86672979 (15%)
3. Netscape 4.x 72932564 (13%)
4. Netscape comp. 9330162 (1%)
5. Unknow 6077557 (1%)
6. MSIE 2.x 3958924 (0%)
7. MSIE 3.x 2561440 (0%)
8. Netscape 3.x 2552658 (0%)
9. Opera x.x 719852 (0%)
10. Netscape 5.x 273951 (0%)
11. Netscape 2.x 93333 (0%)
12. Netscape 1.x 4031 (0%)
13. MSIE 1.x 1353 (0%)

Another interesting page on browser stats is at: http://www.pantos.org/atw/f-35448.html <FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Jim Phelps on 14 May 2002 at 10:22 AM.]</p></FONT>

Mel Culbreath · Post by **Mel Culbreath** » 14 May 2002 7:06 pm

I use IE 5.0

Mel

Chip Fossa · Post by **Chip Fossa** » 14 May 2002 10:56 pm

I have 2 PCs, more or less networked at this point. My primary pc [HewlettPackard] uses IE 6+ as it's browser. And the secondary pc[Gateway] was using IE 6+ also, but for laughs, I changed IE to Netscape 4.0 and then upgraded NS to their 6.0+ version. Netscape 4.0 was a CD I had hanging around and came bundled with the Gateway.

Netscape is on the GW Win98 PC and is slow....even tho I have the latest version. The HP Pavilion WinME, uses IE6+ and is very fast.

Both PC's are networked and access the internet via AT&T cable connect.

I just wanted to see what the differences were between NET and IE. Speed for one, right
now.........but have not given this test any length of time, yet, to give an honest evaluation.