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Re:Is anybody still using Windows 95? by abraxas on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @08:30AM (#24420263)
I never once had a browser crash on me in the nineties.
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Re:Is anybody still using Windows 95? by anthk on Thursday September 10, 2020 @11:04AM (#24432975)
> I never once had a browser crash on me in the nineties.

IE5-6 were a crashfest.

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Re:Is anybody still using Windows 95? by btilly on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @12:23PM (#24422644)
I used Netscape on a Mac in the 90s.

I lost track of how many times I saw the spinning beachball of doom. The only solution for which was the power off and on again.

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Re:Is anybody still using Windows 95? by nl on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @10:08PM (#24428215)
Remember "popup spam" and then how enough windows would open that none would respond?

I'm guessing anyone who didn't get browser crashes in the 90s was only browsing a couple of sites or something. Certainly anything before IE5.5 was crash city - in particular Netscape 2.0!

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