Recommdations on a good browser. [Archive]

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billbuckner

07-14-2004, 06:41 PM

Is there any browser that has an option to not shrink the images? I'd like to view some large images, even with scrolling.

dean_shan

07-14-2004, 11:15 PM

Get FireFox (http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/). There are so many advantages to it over IE that wee could fill a whole board discussing it. The default is to shrink images but you can easily turn that off.

Janak Parekh

07-14-2004, 11:29 PM

I agree with dean_shan on Firefox, but you do realize IE can display the images larger too, right?

First off, hover on the image. Two sets of buttons will appear. Click the one in the lower-right.

And - if you want that setting changed permanently, it's buried somewhere in the options.

--janak

SteveHoward999

07-15-2004, 12:40 AM

Silly me thought we were talking about PDA browsers ...

billbuckner

07-15-2004, 01:40 AM

Silly me thought we were talking about PDA browsers ...
I AM talking about PDA browsers dammit!! :twisted:

Janak Parekh

07-15-2004, 05:46 AM

I AM talking about PDA browsers dammit!! :twisted:
:oops:

Just turn off "Fit to screen" in PIE - I believe that should give you the full-size image, right?

--janak

pocketdoc

07-15-2004, 05:52 AM

EASY!! Let's be civil.

I like PIE Plus. Have not tried oth er progs.

(I tried to "hover" over a pic; doesn't work in PIE.)

Darius Wey

07-15-2004, 11:10 AM

You can also give NetFront (by Access) a go. It also handles other web protocols much better than PIE can.

billbuckner

07-15-2004, 01:55 PM

Thanks! :D I didn't notice it because I was looking under "Options" instead of the View menu. I'll give Netfront a try as well

GoldenTiger

07-15-2004, 05:28 PM

Does Netfront support 640x480 landscape browsing on VGA devices?

Darius Wey

07-16-2004, 10:07 AM

Does Netfront support 640x480 landscape browsing on VGA devices?

Not 100% sure. NetFront hasn't been updated for a while as it still stands at v3.1.

Actually now that I think about it, I do remember trying it when I had an emulated 640x480 res on my PPC...I think it was OK but the address bar was kind of screwy in that it didn't fit properly and somehow overlapped itself...but don't take my word for it because I did this months ago. 8)

Darius Wey

07-16-2004, 12:07 PM

UPDATE

Not 100% sure. NetFront hasn't been updated for a while as it still stands at v3.1.

Sorry. I was just made aware that Access just released NetFront 3.2 which now supports Flash and XHTML+Voice, rapid rendering features, right-to-left rendering, as well as other things which you can read about here:

http://www.access-us-inc.com/news_releases/20040707a.html

It should be made available to the public in the near future.