on Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 01:13:49AM -0700, Bill Stewart (bill.stewart@pobox.com) wrote:
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.
For the GNU/Linux and free 'Nix users in the crowd, I've got my own set
of reviews (about four months stale, update kinda in progress) at
http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/browsers.html
My personal graphical pick: Galeon. Konqeror and Mozilla aren't too
far behind. w3m and lynx are great for quick text browsing. Dillo's a
blazingly fast, lightweight graphical browser, if you don't mind the odd
rough edge (no cookies, frames, animated gifs, cut'n'paste,
Java/Javascript -- most of which is IMVA a Good Thing(tm)). Other
clients reviewed as well. Netscape? It sucks, blows, bites, and loses.
Peace.
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Karsten M. Self