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"

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