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Gozra · #11 May 18th, 2002, 05:49 AM

HEY! don't knock AOL I have been using it and I only have problems 10-15% of the time. I don't lose mail too much and It only crashes once in a while. Ummm so don't knock AOL. Any better ISP's out there?

Taz-in-Space · #12 May 18th, 2002, 05:52 AM

I use netzero ... half the cost and up almost all the time!

Fyron · #13 May 18th, 2002, 06:00 AM

Better ISPs? Try any broadband service. DSL, Cable, etc.

Always on, and, best of all, they are not AOL!!!

Gil Hamilton · #14 May 18th, 2002, 06:56 AM

Don't EVEN get me started on DSL (or the lack there-of).

The answer must be something other than the browser I'm using. Is anyone else using NN 4.5 or 4.6 successfully with PBW?

Fyron · #15 May 18th, 2002, 07:04 AM

DSL? What about it?

***searches for buttons to push to get Gil started on DSL***

PDF · #16 May 18th, 2002, 02:53 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Gil Hamilton:
Don't EVEN get me started on DSL (or the lack there-of).

The answer must be something other than the browser I'm using. Is anyone else using NN 4.5 or 4.6 successfully with PBW?

The browser *is* the issue.
NS 4.5 does not correctly support recent Java progs, so upgrade it or switch to IE5+ (which is already on your system if you're under Windows... damned Bill !

)

dogscoff · #17 May 18th, 2002, 02:59 PM

I use Opera 6 (free Version). PBW works fine, although some other websites do give me trouble (for example, I can't change my avatar on this site=-(

It's a quick, neat, compact browser though, with functions that IE and NS and AOL and others just don't have. 11 meg downoad from www.opera.com, well worth it.

geoschmo · #18 May 18th, 2002, 03:30 PM

Gil,

Unfortunatly our UI/Browser guy is out of town for a few days and can't be reaached. I tried downloading Communicator 4.5 to see if I could access the site. It seemed to work the first couple times, but now it's hanging up.

Perhaps when Lazarus returns he can tell you something more constructive, but I do know that some browser Versions just don't work. We are a free site run by volunteers and supported by donations. Even some large commercial websites have browser incompatability issues. That's just the way it is unfortunatly when you have competing browsers that are hoistile to each other the way MS and Netscape are.

Geoschmo
PBW Admin Team

eorg · #19 May 18th, 2002, 04:03 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by dogscoff:
I use Opera 6 (free Version). PBW works fine, although some other websites do give me trouble (for example, I can't change my avatar on this site=-(

i didn't have problem with opera & avatars too :-) try to accept pop-up i always forgot them off

Edit: opera is 2 or 3 mb without java (javascript still enabled)

[ May 18, 2002, 15:05: Message edited by: georgig ]

capnq · #20 May 19th, 2002, 11:29 PM

As I mentioned in our e-mail discussion about this, PBW's old text-based UI gets along with older Versions of Netscape much better than the new graphics-heavy UI does.