> > > The greatest advantage of this is if you hit a site with bad script (or something) that somehow crashes your spawned browser window, you still have the Main Page intact, pointed at the site you were at before the crash. Works for me...
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> > The trouble with this being that, under Windows, it has a tendency to crash *every instance* of the program running rather than just the one. So if you hit a bad script and it crashes that browser windows, the rest of them go with it.
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> That happens NOT to be true. I have never seen all my browser windows close with 5.0, ever, and I really push the browser sometimes. Yes it did happen with previous versions of IE and with NS. But not 5.0. The spawning is something I started regularly when I discovered how blindingly fast that browser is.

Ahh. I don't use Internet Exploiter, as I said previously, and every browser I'm familliar with does crash all the windows.