Internet explorer bugs?

[ph]

Hi,

Iwould like to know if someone encounters those problems in IE 5:

there's a problem launching the quicktime plugin.
the flash plugin doesn't work so i'm not able to view animations

is it a problem with IE or with me?
is it possible to re-install IE 5 properly?

thanks for responding

paul-henri
France

G4 cube
576Mo
30G0
OsX
Os9

[J5]

I haven't tried quicktime of flash, my pb doesn't connect to the internet - Long story - broken ethernet - unsupported farallon pc card, etc. I'm going to get a free-i account today I think, and get the modem to work.

I did install php and apache, and am working on getting mysql to compile.
When I tested them in Explorer "127.0.0.1" it works fine, but "localhost" crashes Explorer hard and fast. That may be a problem with something outside of Explorer tho.

I've also noticed is that it sometimes doesn't respond to command-keys. I'll have to play with that more to see if it's true.

That's all I've seen so far, when I hook up the modem, I'll try the flash deal. Is there a flash plugin yet for it?
Quicktime might be easy to fix.

[ericmurphy]

I'd be interested to hear what other peoples' experiences have been with web browers are under OS X. The two native browsers I've used so far are Internet Exploder (Carbon beta) and OmniWeb 4.0 Beta 6. I haven't used any Carbon version of Netscape yet, and my experiences with the Classic v. 4.75 have been that it has a disturbing tendency to bring down the entire machine (I've crashed OS X four times in the past five weeks, and Netscape was responsible two of those times).So of the two Browsers I've actually used (OmniWeb and Explorer), I have to say that so far Explorer wins hands down. Don't even get me started on how much it pains me to say that). Which really bums me out. Of the two, Omniweb is by far the more beautiful of the two; Exploder is butt-ugly by comparison. Explorer's font handling is particularly egregious. Also, OmniWeb is Cocoa, not Carbon, it's got a much smaller footprint, and it's NOT MICROSOFT (always a good thing). But, sadly, the performance just isn't there. It's vastly slower than Explorer on my machine (500MHz G4/256/18G Ultra2 SCSI), and it's not as stable (not that Exploder is anything LIKE stable). Also, the plug-in situation seems grim; I haven't been able to find plugins for either Flash or Quicktime, to say nothing of RealAudio, and there seems to be indifferent support for javascript, let alone Java applets. I've also come across numerous pages that simply will not display properly in Omniweb that seem pretty decent under Explorer.

This seems surprising. I've heard nothing but good reviews for OmniWeb. I'd really like to see it succeed; it's definitely a gorgeous browser, but right now the performance just isn't there. Normally I'd chalk it up to being a beta release, but on the other hand Explorer's in beta too.

So please, someone tell me I'm wrong. I always used to take explorer right off my Macs under OS 9 and earlier. The only reason I don't mind having it on my system under X is because it can't get its gnarly, ugly claws into the OS, and can't install bad, evil extensions that wreck my computer.

[ericmurphy]

I'd be interested to hear what other peoples' experiences have been with web browers are under OS X. The two native browsers I've used so far are Internet Exploder (Carbon beta) and OmniWeb 4.0 Beta 6. I haven't used any Carbon version of Netscape yet, and my experiences with the Classic v. 4.75 have been that it has a disturbing tendency to bring down the entire machine (I've crashed OS X four times in the past five weeks, and Netscape was responsible two of those times).So of the two Browsers I've actually used (OmniWeb and Explorer), I have to say that so far Explorer wins hands down. Don't even get me started on how much it pains me to say that). Which really bums me out. Of the two, Omniweb is by far the more beautiful of the two; Exploder is butt-ugly by comparison. Explorer's font handling is particularly egregious. Also, OmniWeb is Cocoa, not Carbon, it's got a much smaller footprint, and it's NOT MICROSOFT (always a good thing). But, sadly, the performance just isn't there. It's vastly slower than Explorer on my machine (500MHz G4/256/18G Ultra2 SCSI), and it's not as stable (not that Exploder is anything LIKE stable). Also, the plug-in situation seems grim; I haven't been able to find plugins for either Flash or Quicktime, to say nothing of RealAudio, and there seems to be indifferent support for javascript, let alone Java applets. I've also come across numerous pages that simply will not display properly in Omniweb that seem pretty decent under Explorer.

This seems surprising. I've heard nothing but good reviews for OmniWeb. I'd really like to see it succeed; it's definitely a gorgeous browser, but right now the performance just isn't there. Normally I'd chalk it up to being a beta release, but on the other hand Explorer's in beta too.

So please, someone tell me I'm wrong. I always used to take explorer right off my Macs under OS 9 and earlier. The only reason I don't mind having it on my system under X is because it can't get its gnarly, ugly claws into the OS, and can't install bad, evil extensions that wreck my computer.

[imgmkr]

it's kinda ironic that QT pluin fails to work in OS X w/ EI, giving a "can't load plugin"... i am not able to view any QT contents, mov, flash, mp3.. etc.
is this a common, known bug? it's quite annoying~~
does any one know there is a patch or workaround to this, share your wisdom pls!
thx~

[The DJ]

Originally posted by imgmkr
it's kinda ironic that QT pluin fails to work in OS X w/ EI, giving a "can't load plugin"... i am not able to view any QT contents, mov, flash, mp3.. etc

Well, not common known, but i experience the same problem. Can't figure out what is causing it, though

DJ

[ph]

when i re install os X this bugs disapear. I think IE was not correctly installed, but i don't know exactly why...

sorry for my bad english

[atoms]

Hmm. Flash seems to work fine on my IE.

I share the sentiments and experiences posted above re: Omniweb. It seems very sluggish. And on some pages it just hangs completely. wah...