Spice up your browsing (Neoplanet)

Member Name: torksoul

Product:	Neoplanet
Date:	29/08/00 (51 review reads)
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Advantages: Skins, skins, and more skins; reliable

Disadvantages: Only 1 skin at a time

I actually came accross this browser by accident, as a result of some bug which messed up the settings on my Internet Explorer - I needed a new browser, and, having tried Netscape Communicator which kept crashing, I decided to chance it and install this unheard-of NeoPlanet browser. Well, it has now completely changed my idea of a browser - before I saw it as just something necessary for the internet to function, a rather boring looking gery frame to whatever page I was looking at. But now, with all the skins - and there are litteraly thousands - I am spending more time looking at the browser than the loading pages!! The skins remind me of mp3 players suchn as WinAmp and Sonique - you can set it on random and every time you start your browser a new skin will load (thought if you have multiple windows open then they all have to be the same skin - a shame). So far it has only crashed once, which is good. I am a bit confused as to how it can function while my IE is faulty, as in the specifications it said you had to have IE installed; also I was pleased to see that, unlike with Netscape, all my favourites from IE had been copied into NeoPlanet.

Well, here's to celebrating modern technology with wacky skins!

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