Off By One
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- This article deals with the Computer program. For information on the programming bug visit Off by one error.Template:Infobox Software2Off By One is a free and small (1.2 MB) web browser for Microsoft Windows and is a completely self-contained, stand-alone application with no dependencies on any other browser or browser component. It provides full HTML 3.2 support. The Off By One web browser is also available as an ActiveX or DLL control for developers. Off By One uses the Webster Pro Control, a core Web Browser Object
Features
Off By One is developed to be a a fast and secure web browser. It includes the following features:
- Tabbed browsing, which more than one web page can be open in the same window.
- Animated GIF support where animations can be toggled.
- HTTP cookies with the option to be disabled or set as session-only.
- SSL support using OpenSSL. One has the option to either turn it off, disabling the https: protocol, or a "fake SSL" mode where the browser will try to connect to a secured server using no encryption.
- Built-in support for WAV and AVI.
- The ability to toggle behaviors such as opening pages in a new window, HTTP Referrer header, etc.
However, as a compromise for speed and size, Off By One lacks certain features; namely JavaScript, plugins and Cascading Style Sheets. Its method of caching is quite different from that of most other browsers (although Opera can be configured to behave similarly). It utilizes so-called "memory-resident caching". This means that all the information commonly cached in other web-browsers is kept only in the computer's memory until Off By One's process is closed. No data are stored on the disk for the next session. This includes on-line information about the user and visited pages (cookies), and web-pages' data (documents, graphics, scripts), except for the persistent HTTP cookies, which are stored in a single file in a directory where the Off By One executable file is located.
Off By One runs on all 32 bit versions of Windows, as either a zip archive or an installer.
Off By One by default displays the user agent identifier "Mozilla/3.0 (compatible; OffByOne; &sys) Webster Pro V3.2" which is editable in Off By One's configuration file.