I was having the best luck with Nscp 4.8, but then something changed at CNET and that turned into the worst for access. Tried the IE 5.5sp2 and Netscape 7. The Netscape 7 proved to be best for access of CNET at that time. The main attraction of it is the informative tabs you can open the messages you want to read in. The tabs flash yellow and red while loading and then green when ready. That allows me to right clk and start opening messages in tabs and then move to the first one ready while the others are downloading in background. The tabs can be set to open in background if desired, my personal favorite way. I haven't used Opera but understand it does tabs too.
your post http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-6130-0.html?forumID=50&threadID=18859&messageID=207307
Well, I'm posting a new reply here as the 'bug' in the system indicated my reply is too long for a single post.
Although I found the MyIE2 browser to be faster and a little better than Opera vs6.01, IE6, and IE5.5, it is not a CURE ALL for the CNet slowness/crawling.
The CNet servers seem to 'put out' only when it feels like it, perhaps after its Midol. Here I was enthused with the speedy almost instant surfing between the different CNet forums using MyIE2 and thinking the Computer World article on the MyIE2 was correct...this is the best browser of them all. Ha, give any browser time and the CNet server will get moody and slap you up side of the....with its slowness/crawling.
Did testing with Pent4, 500MHz, 192MB RAM, GeForce 2 GTS Pro video card, WIN98se OS:
1st with IE5.5....sometimes fast 5-7 seconds...sometimes slow over 2 minutes. Switching between SE and Viruses & Scty Alerts gave longer times.
2nd with MyIE2....same results over a period of time but less frequent on being slow.
3rd with Opera......same results over a period of time but less a little better than IE5.5
Haven't done test on my WinMe computer, but with the
WinXP, Pent 4, 2.0 MHz Northwood, 512MB RAM, GeForce4 TI4600 video card:
With IE 6.0....Same as IE.5.5
With MyIE2.... same results over a period of time but less frequent on being slow.
I only have dial-up.
Was visiting relatives most of this past weekend and while visiting one way out in the country, I was asked to clean up their PC. Did all the usual things cleaning out the temp & internet folders, deleting lot of old programs they would never use that was installed by previous owner, installed AVG, Spybot, AdAware which caught some things, ran scty checks, etc..was surprised they didn't have a virus as their Nortons subscription had expired last year. Since they had Win95, I installed the ability to use MSCONFIG, unchecked a lot there and was able to increase their 'resources' to 92% at startup. Also did scan disk and defrag. Well, the PC was an old Dell, 233MHz, 64MB RAM, Matrix Video, 6GB Harddrive partitioned three ways to 2GB each. Surprised the Win95 did very good on their dial-up and was able to get the CNet survers while they were feeling good and fast even on their old IE4 browser. I didn't upgrade it since everything was working so well...don't fix it.
The CNet forums are still sick. If you think your browser is the cure all, try over a period of time to switch back and forth continually from SE to the Scty forum, then to the XP forum then to the Help, then to the Newbies, then inbetween each and see how "slow" it can be a times. Like with the MyIE2 browser... can go for many hours with all being very fast, then the server misses its Midol.
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