<P> So how does one get Mozilla? Anything but Miscrosoft here in Softie country.
<P>Henry Sharpe, #111, Seattle
<P> <B><I>George Dinwiddie <gdinwiddie@min.net></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">The only Netscape 6 I've used is a pre-release beta of 6.0 (April<BR>2000), so I can't really comment on the stability of it. That<BR>pre-release was quite disappointing to me. I do note that they've<BR>released version 6.2.1 recently.<BR><BR>The generic Mozilla has gotten considerably better in the past<BR>few months. A year ago it was very primitive and most simple<BR>things were broken. Looking at the versions I've downloaded,<BR>I'd guess that I've been using it pretty steadily since December<BR>2000. Since rev 0.9 (May 2001) I've been using it quite a <BR>bit. I recently installed rev 0.9.7 at home (on three machines,<BR>Win98 and two different revisions of Win95) to see if it worked<BR>OK there. Today I just downloaded rev 0.9.8 at work (WinNT4.0).<BR>As you can see from the revision numbers, the Mozilla people<BR>(as opposed to the Netscape people in the same company) still<BR>cons!
ider this "beta release" software, but it's pretty good.<BR><BR>Mozilla has a lot of good features. It handles multiple email<BR>and news servers. (4.7 can only handle one POP3 email account.)<BR>It has gee-whiz doo-dads like the page icons. You can open new<BR>panels within the same window instead of opening new windows<BR>(though there seem to be some bugs in the panels, yet). You<BR>can block images on a server-by-server basis and eliminate the<BR>most annoying advertisements. You can open a frame or a picture<BR>in a new window, something 4.7 had but IE has never allowed.<BR>You've got more flexible control over your cookies. It is<BR>apparently more resistant to hostile code. The bookmarks<BR>handling is much nicer, in my opinion, than IE. These are just<BR>some of the things that come to mind.<BR><BR>If it's been awhile, you might want to try it out. You can<BR>install it on a machine with Netscape 4.7, just install to<BR>a different directory.<BR><BR>- George<BR><BR>&!
gt; Neal Jackson said:<BR>> <BR>> I have both Netscape 6 and IE here at the office, but I generally use the IE<BR>> (even though I am certainly no Microsoft fan!). I have generally found N6<BR>> less handy than Netscape 4.7. For example I could not even cut and paste<BR>> the URL from your message onto N6 to see if the problem was repeated with<BR>> me. <BR>> <BR>> As a result I uninstalled N6 at home, going back to 4.7. At home I had the<BR>> latitude to do that since there the IT department is ME!<BR><BR>-- <BR>----------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>George Dinwiddie gdinwiddie@alberg30.org<BR>The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span those hours spent in<BR>sailing. http://www.Alberg30.org/<BR>----------------------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>+-------------------------------------------------------------------+<BR>| Foul weather? Deep discounts on Henri Lloyd and 2001 Gill gear.!
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