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It seems that every browser out there that I have seen is based on either IE or Mozilla. Does anyone know of any browser that is not IE or Mozilla based ?

Probably not .... but it's worth a try

You might ask, why do u want this TeX ? Well, because all exploits out there are made for theses 2 browsers. If a new browser is out there, there is less of a change of exploits being launched against it anytime soon, hopefully.

What about Opera? Don't you like it? It's not based on IE or Mozilla engine.

Yeh Opera is a good one and not based on IE or Mozilla. Maybe its the time to try it H_TeXMeX_H http://www.opera.com/download/

I wouldn't go that far. 3rd party security companies find potential bugs that hackers could exploit and many of these bugs are shared by many browsers that use same protocols and language. Mozilla just has been more aggressive/quicker to patch their browser.

Avant, Maxthon, Deepnet etc are built on same I.E. core, but there are a dozen or so lesser known ones. Latest Netscape/Firefox are essentially the same using Gecko engine.

Give Opera a try (supposedly world's fastest browser). Just to warn you... have to download external plugins just to make it work and web pages don't always render properly. Does have a great hot bar and download manager I like.

Doesn't Opera display ads like BUY OPERA TODAY !!! ?

I personally don't like giant ads in my browser.

The problem with Firefox is also page rendering problems I've had many of those. Do you know of any ways to fix the rendering problems in Firefox ? Some pages just won't display right or at all

Wish I could tell you Opera is ad-free. I always used regged version (don't ask).
Last time I used it was version 7, but might be different?

I think it's worse then Firefox (adheres to standard unlike I.E) rendering pages. Firefox renders about 98% of pages correctly for me.

TexMex, could always try IE View extension for Firefox.. allows you to view IE-only sites.
http://ieview.mozdev.org/

TexMex, the ads aren't giant (468x60 pixels). However, talk to Mischcabob, maybe he can help you.

Btw, the new Opera 8.0 final version is already out!

Download Opera 8.0 Final from:
http://www.click-now.net/cgi-bin/download.pl?file=1077 (very busy)
or
http://www.takefiles.com/files/ow32enen800.zip

I can remember Opera having a "critical" security hole some time ago. I guess the hackers have been drawn away from it lately because of Firefox though.

As for "non-IE", "non-Gecko", "non-Conformist" standalone browsers they are pretty scarce. Here's one for you:

Off-By-One Browser.

"The Off By One Web Browser may be the world's smallest and fastest web browser with full HTML 3.2 support. It is a completely self-contained, stand-alone 1.2 MB application with no dependencies on any other browser or browser component. For Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

Now, with a tabbed browsing interface."

Off By One Browser Features

* Implements full HTML 3.2 support plus many HTML 4.0 extensions, including Frames.

* Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) support provided by optional OpenSSL libraries for secure navigation to https:// addresses.

* Incorporates a tabbed browsing interface.

* Extras include image animation, WAV and AVI playback and the ability to automatically launch external applications for file types that are not supported internally.

* Packaged in one self-contained 1.2 MB application. Can be compressed down to about 460KB for distribution.

* Completely self-contained, does not require the presence of any other browser.

* Does not require any installation, browser can be run directly from a CD or over a network.

* Has a unique Find-In-Files feature that can search the non-tag text of multiple HTML files.

* Has a unique image zoom option.


Off By One Browser Limitations

* No JavaScript support (so no pop-up ad windows).

* No applet, plug-in or Flash support.

Also it doesn't use a disk cache instead it renders webpages into memory, so when you close it there's no messy leftovers.

Hehe, I have Off-by-One browser, and it's pretty cool, but kinda simple and 'retro' looking. Say, is it more secure than most browsers ? I'm not so sure anymore, there are probably still exploits for it, right ? The no Java and also mouse-scroll problems make it not as friendly to use But, it's pretty fast

As for Opera ... uhhh .... I would really like to use Firefox, it seems to be more flexible, among other things. So maybe I'll try the IE-View extension and see if it works better.

Yeah, I guess my options are somewhat limited, which is probably not too good, but I think Firefox is very good as long as it works, and renders pages properly. Maybe I should reinstall it, yeah.

Anyway, thanks for the input everyone, I really appreciate it