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Crazy Browser (tm) questions/experiences

anyone know anything about it?

         

ergophobe

9:43 pm on May 23, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Hi,

After someone recommended it here, I've started using Crazy Browser more and more. I would probably switch entirely if it had all my Opera bookmarks. I can't believe the whole thing is less than a 1 MB download and I keep wondering when it's going to fail a test (so far so good). There are some odd (actually good) things that I wonder about.

1. It uses my IE favorites (that's great - I wish Opera/NS/IE/Crazy browser would all use the same favorites).

2. It seems to use my IE cookies as well.

3. the right click list is the IE right click list with added tools (image list) in there and it uses the same IE window (not it's own window) to show the image list.

4. It's only 1MB, but it seems to handle all my CSS-2 code and XHTML Strict without a whimper.

So what I'm wondering is whether or not it's using more of IEs guts than one might guess (IE is part of the operating system after all ;) ), or whether it's just some small, tight browser that doesn't try to put an e-mail client, a browser, an FTP client and bomb sniffer in the download? Has anyone who does not have IE installed tried it?

Does anyone have any experience coding for it?

Any idea how far it goes with supporting XHTML/CSS/Javascript not to mention any of the plug-ins out there?

I hope this doesn't sound nasty, but I don't want to start a long series of short posts saying nothing other than "Love it!" or "Hate it!". I would like to hear from folks who have some enlightening information.

Tom

ergophobe

9:46 pm on May 23, 2002 (gmt 0)

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A little more poking around and I found this at www.majorgeeks.com


This has full support for P3P privacy notifications (requires IE6)

So it must be using some of IE guts as I suspected.

Tom

rcjordan

9:48 pm on May 23, 2002 (gmt 0)

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I believe CB is really just a "skin" for IE.

ergophobe

10:57 pm on May 23, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Okay, that explains things. It sort of "Operafies" IE, which is not a bad thing, but it seemed to render things so much like IE, it just seemed weird.

Thanks,

Tom

Pushycat

11:08 pm on May 23, 2002 (gmt 0)

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So what I'm wondering is whether or not it's using more of IEs guts than one might guess

According to the article linked to below, "Crazy Browser looks very much like IE, in fact, it uses the IE browser engine to render web pages and also incorporates other settings."

[webattack.com...]

ergophobe

12:25 am on May 24, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Thanks. I did a quick search but didn't find that. I knew I'd get the answer here though!

Tom

PsychoTekk

8:15 am on May 24, 2002 (gmt 0)

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NetCaptor
(Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; DigExt; Q312461; NetCaptor 7.0 Beta 5))
and Crazy Browser
(Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Crazy Browser 1.0.5))
both use most of the msie dll's, their abilities on cookies, p3p etc.
depends on the version of msie installed