At 12:52 AM 10/23/2001 -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote:
georgemw@speakeasy.net wrote:
On 22 Oct 2001, at 18:52, Tim May wrote:
You must be the only remaining user of NS (for either the Mac or Windows). Everyone I know gave up on NS 5 and moved on to IE. It's not perfect, but it's not buggy like "AOLscape" is.
There never was a netscape 5, they jumped from 4.5 to 6.
I'm using 4.8 -- tried 6, it sux.
6.0 ranged from bad, if you had enough RAM, to mind-bogglingly amazingly bad if you ran on Win98 with 24MB RAM. It was way beyond atrocious - just trying to load the startup page (set to "about://") took tens of minutes of little pieces dribbling onto the screen. 6.1, on the other hand, seems to work tolerably well, at least on my 64MB RAM machine. I normally use Mozilla (though I'm finding that 0.9.5 crashes a bit more than 0.9.4.) The one main gripe I've had about Mozilla has been that a number of plug-ins either don't work at all or have installers that get confused if your machine has both a Netscape 6.x and a Mozilla on it, and tends not to install itself where the Mozilla can find it. I use IE for pages that have too much broken Javascript to survive on Mozilla, or for pages that have plugins that my Mozilla doesn't support.