Hello Paul, Monday, October 15, 2007, 8:46:02 AM, you wrote:
PVN> 10/15/2007 8:31 AM PVN> Hi MikeD, PVN> On 10/15/2007 MikeD (2) wrote: M2>> very attractive to the geek community. They picked up in it early. M2>> When they went to help out their tech-challenged friends who had M2>> gotten 'clobbered' by some 'problem' in IE, they would tell them to M2>> use this here program. PVN> Hmm... Opera was around waay before Firefox and is waay more secure. A PVN> quick check at Secunia will confirm this. As I recall PVN> Firebird/Firefox started as a way to get rid of Netscape bloat and PVN> then morphed into the "secure" replacement for IE. If you want a safe PVN> browser get it here: http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/ See its security PVN> history here: http://secunia.com/product/15549/?task=advisories At that time, however, Opera did not work well with many sites. There are still a lot of sites where Opera does not render correctly. That is what has kept Opera as an 'also ran', unfortunate as that might be. M2>> I cannot use TB for MSN now M2>> that MS has changed the authentication (yet again <sigh>). PVN> What a wonderful opportunity to move to a more positive email host! PVN> 8-]} I still (possibly because of familiarity) prefer TB over the alternatives. OE is still 'brain dead', Thunderbird is not as useful to me (I use that on a company box since I can't have personal email there). I am still confident that eventually TB will catch up with MSN and their new authentication 'scheme' <g> -- Best regards, MikeD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Using The Bat! v3.99.25 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is (none) | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
