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the bugs in Bill Gates' Macintosh Edition Explorer 5


Macintosh Edition Explorer 5. It looks great...however it mutilates Flash sites, something the previous edition, Explorer 4.5 (Macintosh Edition), did not:

Explorer 4.5 - normal

Explorer 5 -with multiples as a result of scrolling.
........... when scrolling a Flash site it simply shows multiples.....with different parts of the page overlying others, which would not be so problematic except that the links go to the underlying parts covered by the multiplied images which the refresh button does nothing to resolve. Simply, the Flash site does not work in (the Mac edition) Explorer 5! (I have no idea, how the site works on the PC equivalent: PC edition Explorer 5.5)

a/ Bill Gate's Explorer = a Microsoft product not Apple. HOWEVER Apple include this version of Explorer as part of their new software OS 9.2.1;

b/ The editor of an Australian advertorial* magazine Macworld suggested it was my old machine. Sorry dear, but the same problem occurred on the G4 Powerbook at the Mymac shop;

c/ the same editor also suggested I did not have enough RAM for the screen's refresh rate... Begs the question: how much RAM does it require? 1 GIG RAM!? 128 RAM should be enough and is enough for Explorer 4.5! I have 3 times that and had  allocated 10 times Explorer 5's  suggested memory requirements when I did have it installed!

I've trashed Explorer 5.

*advertorial is stated as my opinion of the "magazine"


The criticisms above were last edited in 2001
Addenda 12 January 2010

Microsoft never resolved the problems with the Mac version of its Explorer browser for Mac.

The last version of Explorer made for OS X was Explorer 5.2.3. Below are screenshots of my site as it appears on a QuickSilver Dual 800 mhz G4 with 1.5 gig ram running on Tiger 10.4.11. The performance of Explorer 5.2.3 on Leopard (OS X 10.5.8) on an Intel Mac with 4 gig ram performs the same way.


Explorer never worked. It is astonishing that Apple even chose Explorer as its default browser (until they introduced Safari). It is just as astonishing that Apple sychophants would chose to defend the browser (and blame the machines running them: Apple computers) simply because Apple chose Explorer.

Below is a screenshot of my site on Firefox 3.5.7, which shows what the site should look like