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Re: more problems with Netscrape 6.2
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Date: 
Sat, 10 Nov 2001 04:41:58 GMT
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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 for mail, though, so I can't tell you about that.
www.mozilla.org.

Seth.


In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Jennifer L. Boger writes:
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 ya.  I miss pine.

Dan says he's using 6.2 on linux and it works fine.

Ps: IE, how sad :/

Mark Sandlin wrote:

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 Admiral Muffin Head




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  Re: more problems with Netscrape 6.2
 
(...) 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)
  Re: more problems with Netscrape 6.2
 
(...) 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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  Re: more problems with Netscrape 6.2
 
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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