10-23-2004, 01:00 AM
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Magi
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Pocketnow Reviews MultiIE
"One of the nicer features to be added to browsers recently was the ability to load multiple web pages, which you can easily switch between using a tabbed interface; Mozilla Firefox users: you are well aware of what I am referring to. Instead of multiple windows, you have one window with tabs for each separate page. When you move to the small screen, things aren't nearly as nice. In fact, Pocket Internet Explorer doesn't just not support a tabbed interface, it doesn't support "multiple instances" to allow you to open more than one web page at a time. For a quick look at a particular site, that isn't an issue, but, if you use your Pocket PC for more than incidental browsing, you'll find yourself often wishing you could open more than one page at a time. Wouldn't it be nice if there was a way to open multiple web pages, simultaneously, in PIE. Wouldn't it be even nicer if you could easily switch between them without having to use a task switcher program? "
Pocketnow's Russ Smith takes a look at the application and I'm pretty sure he likes what he sees. I'm a NetFront ACCESS man myself, but I've used MultiIE in the past, and found it to be a decent program. Once you use a tabbed interface, you can't go back.  MultiIE will set you back $17.95, and there IS a trial available. [Affiliate] For those of you that have used this, what's your take on how it compares to other similar programs?
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10-23-2004, 01:06 AM
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10-23-2004, 01:15 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 98
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Re: Free version
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Originally Posted by cuteseal
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D'oh, beat me to it
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10-23-2004, 02:25 AM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 1,043
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Funny, I've never liked the tabs thing. A Pocket PC screen is small enough without losing even more of a web page to a tab bar, even one only 12 pixels high as I've tried setting them in MultiIE. I don't need to know the names of the 4 or 5 windows I might have open all the time, as for one it's a breeze to switch between them using GigaBar or any other decent swither bar, or even using MultiIE's own menu where full page names are displayed and tappable. If I ran tabs, I'd have three seperate ways to switch windows in PIE! Don't really need that much redundancy for such a simple function.
Otherwise, I've enjoyed MultiIE a great deal since it was released. Used Pete's freeware multi-window tool TapRight before that, helping him get the bugs worked out alongside x999x, or 999 as he was known then. Great softwares. While Pocket IE's many coding bugs and limitations still make the implementation of all MultiIE's tools such as saving images and text in all pages impossible, and still block the much sought after Search function within pages, the functions he's been able to add make PIE truly usable. Without it, well, I'd probably use a PC. Of course, ftxPBrowser is quite nice, and I use it once in a while. I miss the context menus in MultiIE though, having a handful of frequently-used links there all the time without having to go to the Favorites folder which is so slow to load (with over 700 links in it, anyway). Toggling fullscreen or the addressbar with buttons is very cool too, in both apps.
NetFront I use for banking and PayPal, and on the Dell forums where PIE won't work, and the odd other site which needs a fuller-featured Java browser. But for the most part NetFront is too slow, both internally and in the way it bogs down everything else I'm running. With an X-scale device one really shouldn't have to wait 3 or 4 seconds for the Start Menu to come down, as is always the case for me with NetFront running. Or with TextMaker for that matter, but at least TM is a massively powerful app, and I'm usually not multi-tasking when that's open as I am when using a browser.
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10-23-2004, 10:40 AM
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Thoughts Media Review Team
Join Date: May 2002
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I am another one who has been using MultiIE pretty much from the first day that I mangaged to get my PPC (then a Jornada 545) connected to the net. MultiIE and NetFront have been living together on my PPC for at least a year now and I tend to use one or the other depending on what I am doing. NetFront seems to load pages a bit faster than PIE and the fit to screen options (especially Smartfit) means that I really find a page that I cannot read easily.
However, there are some features in MultiIE that make it very useful. In particular the context menu and being ablet to save a page as a txt file. I find this particulary good for news stories I want to keep a copy of. I also use the predefined prefix menu all the time.
All in all a great program.
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10-23-2004, 05:38 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Apr 2004
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i'd sure like to use the double tab thing, cause it's just common sensie, looking up something in google, checking the news, posting a reply in pocketpc thoughts, while doing my email.
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10-24-2004, 03:48 AM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 495
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are there any other FREE multi explorer view programs you folks recommend???
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10-24-2004, 04:06 AM
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5000+ Posts? I Should OWN This Site!
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Just a wee heads-up: I had the latest version running in my iPaq 5550. I had to do a hard-reset and restore my latest Sprite backup. MultiIE wouldn't initialize after the restore. PIE would, but the space that the MultiIE icons shoud be in had nothing.
I did another hard-reset and reinstalled everything because I had issues with other programs and settings, and all is fine now.
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10-24-2004, 08:07 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Mar 2004
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I think the only free multi-tab browser is the FTX browser mentioned in the second post of this thread. It works pretty well. I used it for WAP sites and stick with Netfront for everything else.
Anyone know of any features that MultiIE offers that would justify choosing that over the free FTX browser? Something other than tab-views?
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10-24-2004, 08:33 AM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 1,043
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Here are a few shots showing the MultiIE-added context menus in PIE, with my link extensions, and Vito Mobile Downloader's plugin component:
Hope this explains it in part.
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