My Browser Download Page
Most of my web pages require HTML3.0, Tables, Forms, Java, and
JavaScript support available in the latest browsers from Netscape
and Microsoft.
The links below point to the ftp download sites for these products.
Netscape Communicator 4.7?
- Someone else has made a far better page for this. Go there!
-
Or go through Netscape's main browser download page...
Whatever you do, do NOT use SmartDownload.
SmartDownload is used by Netscape purely to assault you with
advertising images that slow your download. It is NOT faste.
There is also no advantage to
picking up the download in the middle, since, if you use Netscape to do the
download (recommended), it will cache whatever you get and pick it up
again later if you need to.
Netscape Navigator 3.04 (much smaller and more stable,
but less function...)
Netscape Navigator is free to everyone.
Internet Explorer 4.x
- Windows and Mac
- Unix? Well, OK, I must admit that I thought they'd never do it at all,
and I was wrong. I'm trying to remain objective, but you gotta admit
this was a long shot.
(What your Uncle Bill lie to you? Nahhh...)
Explorer is available for a Unix (see
http://www.microsoft.com/unix/ie/
for the Solaris version).
You have just got to check out the M$oft propaganda on this:
(sorry, it's gone, like so many other things on the M$oft site...)
"Getting UNIX
Out the Microsoft Door".
I certainly hope the irony of their difficulties in
porting IE3 (essentially Mosaic, the original, free, Unix-developed,
coss-platform browser) from Windoze to Solaris is not lost on anyone.
And you gotta love this quote: "It's amazing to me how far UNIX has
to go today to catch up to NT". Now that's a keeper!
For an objective, well-reasoned counterpoint from a seasoned
professional, see John Kirch's article,
Microsoft Windows NT
Server 4.0 versus UNIX.
Internet Explorer is free to everyone.
Created by Andrew Barclay
abb@acm.org
on 12/4/1996, updated 3/30/2000.