Topic: Browser Showdown

[mirth]

lynx

[mgleason007]

Mozilla Firefox.

[jpschust]

you guys wanna hear something really funny?  ok at school we use this site called "oncourse" to manage all our classes.  usually they keep copies of all the course info there, the syllabi, assignments.  Here's the deal- it has to be viewed with IE or netscape.  But here's the kicker- we have 15 or so mac labs on campus.  They only have Safari installed on the macs.  So if you are using a campus computer you cant get to probably the most important site on campus.

[John Kelly]

Enable the debug menu, then set the agent to IE 6 or Netscape 7.  Problem solved.

[jpschust]

these things are so locked down, no way

[Govt Mule]

another vote for Opera. nothing is faster.

[C.Clark]

netscape7/mozilla 5.5

wow, Mozilla skipped from v1.7 to v5.5?  

thats what i thought i was using, guess not

[John Kelly]

these things are so locked down, no way

Ah come on, you can't con your way to getting an admin password?

[nic]

sounds like someone needs to take a class in social engineering 101

[crunchy]

Enable the debug menu, then set the agent to IE 6 or Netscape 7.  Problem solved.

How do you do that?

[John Kelly]

Oh, and btw, just reboot the machine onto an OS X disc and you can change the admin password.  Couldn't be easier.

To enable the debug menu, paste this into the terminal when Safari is not running:

Code: [Select]

defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1

[Cooker]

Firefox pretty much 100% now.

I am actually pushing for us to all use Firefox at work as it cuts down on vulnerability to spyware/popups. IE is still king with my clients, though, so i have to develop with it a lot for work.

[mizary]

As much as I'd love to switch to opera or firefox, IE6 is still the most compatible - so that's what I use.

Once opera gets a little more compatible I might switch to that.  I really like a lightweight browser.  Firefox seems as clunky and slow as NS ever was.  Sure it's a little more compatible than NSx, but nowhere near perfect.

--mizary

[scb]

>> Oh, and btw, just reboot the machine onto an OS X disc and you can change the admin password.  Couldn't be easier.<<

not exactly...

and what happens if you go to the site with safari?  it just doesn't work?  is the site specifically locking out non-IE or netscape browsers?  if so, that's a *horrible* design

[RRobar]

I'm pretty much exclusive to safari now (on the mac it's all I use) IE on the PC at home which gets very little use by me these days . I'm not sue why stuff does not work in Safari is it not based on Netscape? Seems like the source code can't be that different. But then I'm a printing graphics guy with only a fair amount of web experience.