Nutty, is Ye Olde Computron a Mac or a PC? And what OS are you running?

In either case, have you tried Opera?

(Other suggestions might be forthcoming based on what type of system you have.)

PC, Win 98 Plus. Haven't updated a thing in years, and had hoped to get away with that for many years hence.

I will not point out that Netscape has not yet crashed on me, because if I do, it promptly will.

Hmm. I would just try downloading Internet Explorer SP if that's not the version you're using (it's basically the version for anyone not running Windows XP).

2. What browser should I download that will not go on the fritz on my elderly, slow-connection machine?

Firefox.

1. Any ideas WTF?

It sounds like the browser is having problems interpreting scripts. I'm not exactly sure what would cause that.

Since you haven't updated in a long, long time, I wonder if it hasn't picked up an infection of some sort. Other things you might want to download are Ad-Aware and Spybot - Search & Destroy. They'll find any spyware you may have picked up in your browsing.

Thanks again to Nova & ND for the mp3 editing resources. The file I needed to trim was too big for the freeware version of mpTrim, but the command line version of ffmpeg worked just fine.

Anyone here subscribe to any Podcasts? The file I was trimming was an mp3 of my radio show. I'm experimenting with setting up a Podcast, so if anyone is set up to receive them, I'd love to have someone test it out. Let me know and I'll post the XML URL.

Oh, yeah. I subscribe. Let me know.

Here's a link le nubian. It's probably not permanent though: [link]

Mac OS X people, if you've been using Firefox for your web browsing but find it to be slow, or if you've been using Safari but wish it would work with more pages or had a slightly larger feature set, you might want to take a look at Camino. Like Safari, it's a native OS X browser, but it includes some of the features of Firefox. Specifically, it uses the Mozilla engine, so sites that won't work in Safari will work fine in it. The only thing it's missing that I really like in Firefox is the ability to run extensions like DeepestSender, but I hardly ever used that anyway.

The benefits of being an OS X native application: Mainly, it's much faster. Not the web loading, necessarily, but things like loading the window and opening new tabs and whatnot are much less delayed. Of course, it also uses somewhat fewer system resources, at least processor power, though I haven't done a memory use comparison. Aspects of OS X like drag and drop work more like you expect. Finally (and this is the killer for me), you can use the things in the Services menu with web text, which is cool if you have a bunch of services installed like I do.

Check it out if you're the type of person that enjoys playing with new software. For the moment, at least, it's become my default web browser.

Jon, okay I'm out of town for awhile, so I can't check your link until the end of the week.

Tiger shipping on April 29: [link]