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sliverstorm

Any of the following:

a) be superior to chrome and firefox

b) be the only browser I could run

c) Drugged, hypnotized, bribed, etc

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P.S. Microsoft, Chrome is your target now. Not Firefox.

And get rid of the flashiness, make it plain... PLEASE

++ re: plain. I still think ie5 was the greatest browser Microsoft made, because it was the basic browser that, although it had no bells or whistles, worked on almost EVERY page. If I couldn't see something in Opera or, later, Firefox, I just threw it at ie5 and it worked.

Funny story for you; I have found pages that do not render properly in IE6 that render fine in IE5.5.

I wish I could explain it but..

Exactly. Standard IE is no longer the throw-anything-at-it (and pretty fast as well) browser, unfortunately.

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