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Member since May 30, 2001

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    Richard Watkins

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  1. Review - Mozilla Firefox (v2) for Windows

    0.8 (Feb 9, 2004)

    bobad, nemrtvy's attack was uncalled for. But your reply was blind as well and cliched to boot... Note "pretty useless for anyone with a life". Find a dictionary and increase your vocabulary. Don't go thru "life" being a sheep. The faults that you find with Mozilla lead me to believe that a) your PC is amiss, and/or b) your PC/software knowledge is lacking. I find not the problems with Mozilla that you so state. If you want flawless software, why are you hanging around here at BETAnews?

  2. Review - Adobe Flash Player for Windows (IE)

    7.0.19.0 (Dec 17, 2003)

    They oughta call it nagware. All flash seems to be used for now is ads and long download(on 56K) page intros. woohoo. Lucky me. I'm so excited and I just can't hide it.

  3. Review - Opera for Windows

    7.23 Final (Nov 22, 2003)

    Page rendering problem was fixed. However, it can crash (quite often sometimes) when trying to close a page that is still loading. Stopping the page from loading then closing the window stops most crashes, but will still do so on occasion. Depends if another open window is loading. Will also crash occasionally if I change the address manually in the address bar to go to a different page on the same site (haven't tried going to a completely different site to see if it still crashes). Again, it all depends on page loading either in that window or other windows. Upon restart, if I try to change the address manually again, it will repeat the crash.

  4. Review - Adobe Flash Player for Windows (IE)

    7.0.0.250 Beta (Aug 7, 2003)

    You'll be needing it when that great browser called Internet Exploder keeps nagging you to upgrade to Flash 7 on every webpage that's flash enabled.

    And to the "Yeeehaw" below, there has been a standalone installer for some time now. You just didn't dig deep enough.

  5. Review - Adobe Flash Player for Windows (IE)

    7.0.0.249 Beta (Aug 5, 2003)

    Most likely the only improvements are for advertizers. Seems that's all Flash is used for nowadays.

  6. Comment - ICQ Slims Down for 4.0 Release

    7.0.0.249 Beta (Apr 20, 2004 - 4:04 PM)

    I dumped ICQ a while back once I disabled DCOM via registry... (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\OLE..."EnableDCOM"="N"). DCOM is a security risk (and resource hog). ICQ demands that it be on. All the other IM's don't complain about it being off.

  7. Comment - Microsoft Granted Java Reprieve

    7.0.0.249 Beta (Jun 27, 2003 - 2:17 AM)

    Read the artical more closely.

    Quote:
    "The case will now return to the lower court for further proceedings under Motz unless Sun and Microsoft reach a settlement."

    Can you say litigation?

    I knew you could.

    This will go on for quite some time.

  8. Comment - Microsoft: Upgrade Your Media Player

    7.0.0.249 Beta (May 30, 2001 - 8:28 AM)

    WMP 7.1 allows for ad streaming. Who wants that. I think M$ is just tricking people to upgrade to allow for ad streaming. The more people using 7.1 or higher, the more advertisers M$ can sign up. Just uncheck "Allow Internet sites to uniquely identify your player" in Tools/Options.