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For some reason, Netscape has decided to hang when I close a browser window. At first it was a mildly annoying 3 second hang, but then it grew to be 20 seconds and then a whole minute. I got sick of the thing and am now using IE. Blah. ~Grand (...) (23 years ago, 10-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I'm using 6.1 and don't have any such problems... in 6.01 was terrible, i can't believe NS put their name on such a thing! both versions however are terrible at mail handling - i frequently lose everything in all folders, it's a blast, let me tell (...) (23 years ago, 10-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Have you tried Mozilla? It's basically Netscape; still in beta (0.9.5) but very stable, highly configurable, has excellent ad- and popup-blocking capabilities, and a better mascot than anything going. Definitely worth checking out. I don't use it (...) (23 years ago, 10-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) He's not hung, he's just *resting*. Presumably the blossoming time meant that it was actually doing something. (23 years ago, 10-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) but (...) that. (...) I actually use galeon at work now - it's based on mozilla, but trimmed down. It's not the unix way to include a mail client, news client and irc client with your web browser. galeon takes the mozilla rendering engine and (...) (23 years ago, 10-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) irc (...) oh - url: (URL) (23 years ago, 10-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hmm, I haven't had problems with the Mail bit of it. (...) Well, Netscape X for MacOS X works fine too, but I can't switch this (my work laptop) 'puter over until Adobe gets off their butt and releases Illustrator X. (...) Yeah, but it works, (...) (23 years ago, 10-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I tried it, and promptly deleted it. At first I was pleasantly surprised that it automatically imported my Netscape prefs so I didn't have to set it all up. Then I was unpleasantly surprised that it imported the "hang for 30 seconds when (...) (23 years ago, 10-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I thought AI 10 *has* been released... How did you extricate IE from OSX? I was resigned to switching over to the default IE? -John (...) (23 years ago, 10-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Illustrator 10, yes. Illustrator X, no. (...) I didn't really, I just don't use it. (...) Why? Go download Netscape 6.2 and see how you like it. It seems to work fine in X. I don't know why it's doing this hanging crap in 9, tho. ~Grand (...) (23 years ago, 10-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Oh. I thought 10 = X (more specifically, 10 was ramped up for OSX) (...) I think I'll just do that:-) Thanks! -John It seems to work (...) (23 years ago, 10-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) But it's the emacs way to include those things with your text editor. (...) Not exactly, but there's a similar project: (URL) (23 years ago, 13-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Sounds like there was some corruption in your user profile. You might want to delete that and try again -- C:\windows\application data\mozilla\profiles or C:\windows\all users\application data\mozilla\profiles or somewhere. (23 years ago, 13-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) want (...) data\mozilla\profiles (...) I believe it's c:\windows\mozilla\users\... :) Dan (23 years ago, 13-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I can't get IE to work at all anymore, perhaps someone could help me out. Everytime I try to use it I get a DNS error. Aol 6 works fine. Steve (23 years ago, 13-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) This is far from my area of expertise, but I've seen it in all of those places. Maybe version-of-mswindows related, maybe version-of-mozilla. (23 years ago, 13-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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