[Linux-Anyway] Re: Netscape 7

about Thu, 26 Sep 2002 03:44 Meph Istopheles burbled of :
>   David,
>
> > Bit the bullet and installed Nestscape 7 today, must admit I
> > was pleasantly surprised.  6 was a dog on my system and I
> > persevered with 4, but despite the 40meg dl 7 is very fast and
> > the real biggie for me it works with my bank's online site,
> > something that I had to use opera for before.
>
>   Interesting.  The resson I stick with Mozilla is becasue it's
> the future Netscape, as Netscape uses many versions back of
> Mozilla releases, changes the look & feel, & markets it.
>

Yeah and I've been very dubious of it ever since AOL bought it out anyway.
I did some heavy surfing last night to try and crash it etc, and it worked 
fine, didn't find a page it couldn't handle at all. Not saying there aren't 
any out there of course and because of the above mentioned ownership, I am 
sure something will be wrong with it. Just a bit cynical that way.

>   But, from your description, it may not be a bad idea to try it
> out on some of my slower boxes to see if it's faster & adaquately
> stable on java & java script.
>
>   If it's of any interest to you, the current Mozilla hasn't
> crashed on any java or java script I've come across -- unlike the
> .9 release & any Netscape I've used.

Yeah like I said, Mozilla works but is just quite treacle-wading to use on 
this old machine. Mind you with the kernel update I did recently and now 
netscape 7 it's becoming a lot more useable and fun than it was. Now all I 
need is for open office to speed up dramatically and I'll be happy :)

David

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