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This is basically what I thought was the case.

Thanks

"Peter Ceresole" <peter@cara.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> In article <970473182.28841.0.nnrp-07.c2de0acf@news.demon.co.uk>,
> "PeterO" <petero@tharstern.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >Can anyone please tell me if there are any known issues with IE 5 for the
> >Mac.
>
> I can only speak from personal experience, on a beige G3/266 running sys
> 8.1 and an iBook running sys 9.0.4
>
> I run both IE5 and Netscape Navigator 4.08 and need both because:
>
> IE5 is nice and quick, and displays HTML pages superbly- better than NN.
>
> It works pretty well with Apple's MRJ 2.2, although it (MRJ) needs loads
of
> memory to run. NN's Java is much slower but runs in very little memory and
> seems much more reliable than the IE5/MRJ combination. However it has an
> older, more limited implementation of Java. There is a later
implementation
> of MRJ available from the Apple web site and apparently it works better
> than 2.2. However that isn't the main issue.
>
> The real snag is that IE5's Javascript is quite badly broken, although not
> nearly as badly as IE4.5's, which was a disaster area, and it has trouble
> with many sites as a result. NN, although older, is immensely better at
> handling Javascript and will handle many commercial sites that fail with
> IE5.
>
> However, IE5 is superior because of its ability to save site images
outside
> the cache, and the Download Manager is, in my opinion, well worth having.
> Which is why I use both IE5 and NN.
>
> >I have heard various rumours over crashes etc and possible memory leaks
but
> >nothing confirmed.
>
> Crashes yes, although most of the time if it crashes you can quit it with
a
> Alt-Cmd-Esc and it will go gracefully. However I wouldn't like to try that
> too often on system versions before 8.1. Again, NN seems to crash less
> often. Some crashes are associated with using RealPlayer 7, which compared
> to previous versions is a bit of a memory hog, so it's hard to generalise.
>
> As for memory leaks, I've not seen any evidence of them. I can browse
> dozens of sites over an hour, and never get any problems except Javascript
> ones... And those are soft failures- you get an alert, and carry on.
>
> These are only my personal opinions, limited to the two machines I use. If
> you want a wider sample, ask again in uk.comp.sys.mac- I won't cross post
> there, in case you want to limit your traffic, but if you're interested,
> give it a try.
>
> --
> Peter