I've been a NetCaptor evangelist for years too. I can't say I've ever had 35 browser tabs open (how much RAM do you have??), but I commonly have over a dozen open. I even have the side buttons of my mouse programmed so I can quickly hop from one tab to the next. I love the CaptorGroups and QuickSearch. I never have registered it, though. I'm still using the last version before it went shareware. I use it more than any other software, but I guess part of me is stuck on the idea that software should be free. MyIE2 looks interesting, though. I might look into that.

I use Phoenix, which is Mozilla without all the bloatware. It works nicely. As a 8 year veteran, I have a hard time remembering that the tabs are there to use. Old habits die hard, I guess.

I'm going to give NetCaptor a try at work, though I must confess that since the company doesn't offer a Mac version, I probably won't be using it personally, even if I adored the product. I expect to be switching sometime in the next 90 days so finding products that are available on both platforms means I can use them at work and at home! :)

Having used both browsers extensively, I can honestly say that MyIE2 is superior to NetCaptor in many ways. Not the least of the ways it is superior is in its ability to take on third-party MSIE extensions which NetCaptor, even after all of these years, cannot. By "third-party extensions", I am referring to things like Google Toolbar, and other context menu or BHO-type add-ons.

Try getting these extensions to work with NetCaptor, and then come back and try selling me on it. And don't give me a "you don't want to run extensions anyway" cop out.

There are other nice things about MyIE2, such as a configurable "utility bar"; the ability to omit icons from the Links bar; thus giving you considerably more room; an easy and direct (i.e. toolbar- or menu-driven) way to enable or disable Java, scripting, ActiveX, image loading, and other web clutter--APART from messing with the MSIE "Zones"; superior content filtering; easily-managed, one-click proxy handling (again, WITHOUT messing with MSIE's clumsy dialogs); a handy and powerful "Undo" feature; a built-in "scratch pad" for keeping URLs handy while browsing; and so on, and on, and on. There are literally far too many things that MyIE2 offers, over and above NetCaptor, for me to mention here.

I speak with some authority here. I have used NetCaptor since before it was called "NetCaptor" (it used to be called "SimulBrowse"). I have worked many times with the author, and I've loaded every single beta that has been released over the years. My input and feedback to the author has helped shape even the most recent build. And I'm here to say that I've recently converted to MyIE2.

NetCaptor's development proceeds at a glacial pace, and it has quirks and annoyances that I won't mention here. This has made my decision to switch away from it quite easy. I haven't uninstalled NetCaptor yet, but if someone did it behind my back, I may never notice or care.

"Give it a try and register NetCaptor instead"? Give me a break. What, exactly, does NetCaptor do better than MyIE2? On the two WinXP systems I used to (note the past tense) use NetCaptor on, it would myteriously grey out web pages at random--requiring me to hit Alt+Tab twice--or to scroll up and down if I could--just to get the page back. Of course, NetCraptor "support" blew thie problem off.

And NetCaptor used to throw errors and just plain crash on me, quite often. MyIE2 never does.

MyIE2 also supports many MSIE add-ins, such as Google toolbar (which I don't use, and wouldn't, but plenty of people do), and many others. You can make your own plugins for it as well (it's easy). Try that with NetCraptor.

I thought I remembered you commenting about the way MyIE2's "group" files used the same name and format as NetCaptor's. You commented that they were named CGP files, and they say "[CaptorGroup]" inside. However, this is done for compatibility reasons, not to "steal" an idea wholesale. This good idea, implemented by the MyIE2 author, greatly aids those of us who have come to our senses, and switched from NetCraptor to MyIE2.

I agree with you on one thing: If I were NetCraptor's author, I'd be upset, too. After all, freeware authors were beating me at my own game.