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[Andy Vida]

Wayne Ackman wrote:
> 
> I got all the blacksmithing books no problem.
> 
> I have been using irider for a browser.  Has a couple nice features like
> surf ahead etc.  Written by the folks that brought us Xtree for those
> that remember that sweet program from the DOS days.

	iRider is a bit strange, but it seems to kick ass.  One
	thing I like about it is that it is JUST a browser and
	not a lame-ass email program as well.  Opera's email
	sucks green Martian rod for reasons I won't go into.
	Netscrape is a reasonably good mail client, but that
	horrible, icky, gross web browser sucks even more green
	martian rod.  It would be great if Netscrape would
	decouple the email client from the browser.  Then again,
	after 4.x, i.e. from 5.0 on, they completely ruined the
	mailer too, which is why I'm still on 4.8.  It's a hog
	and full of memory leaks, but not nearly as bad as, say,
	7.1, which ultra sucks, especially on a cranky old
	machine like this (5 years).

	I'd recommend iRider, though it takes some getting used to because
	the layout is very different from Opera/'Scrape/Mozilla/IEx

	And the download is well under 4M.  Compare that to the
	17M for NetCrap... er, Netscape, and that's just the minimal
	installation.  IIRC, the full version is something idiotic
	like 43M.  That's what you get when you try to be all things
	to all people.  Yick.