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    Netscape 6 —Alan Gerber
   Netscape 6 is out. </alan> (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
   
        Re: Netscape 6 —Claus Thiim
     (...) Yes, Netscrape 6 is indeed 'out'... (24 years ago, 18-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
   
        Re: Netscape 6 —Matthew Miller
     (...) Yeah. I'm not too happy with it -- it's significantly worse than the current nightly builds of Mozilla. I understand the marketing pressure to release something, anything, but it would have been so much nicer if they'd waited another month. (...) (24 years ago, 18-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
   
        Re: Netscape 6 —Tobias Möller
   Question: I'm running Communicator 4.75 or something. Can I download navigator 6, and "integrate" it in Communicator? Or maybe they have Communicator 5 too? --Tobias (...) (24 years ago, 18-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
   
        Re: Netscape 6 —Matthew Miller
   (...) Netscape 6 includes a mail client and all the stuff Communicator does. You can also install them in parallel with no problem. I really recommend getting a nightly mozilla build from (URL) instead of the "official" version. (24 years ago, 18-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
   
        (canceled) —Jamie Obrien
   
        Re: Netscape 6 —Matthew Miller
   (...) Yeah -- Netscape 3 actually sucks a lot too. Doesn't support current HTML standards. Mozilla 0.8 is out, btw. Very nice. (24 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
   
        Re: Netscape 6 —Kevin Loch
   (...) Actually Netscape 3 is an amazingly fast browser. Runs circles around later versions and Mozilla and IE. There relatively few sites that are unusable because of javascript or other missing/ incompatable features. The news reader was the best (...) (24 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
   
        Re: Netscape 6 —Matthew Miller
   (...) Sure; same with lynx. (...) The newer HTML and XML stuff is really cool (not just "wow" cool but "well done" cool). It'd be great if more sites _could_ use that. (...) I actually use it on my P75/32mb Libretto. It's not too bad -- main problem (...) (24 years ago, 17-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 

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