[TechAssist] Re: [Fwd: Netscape not supported? Finished? NLA?]

Netscape 4.7 does not work with many present day web sites. Those sites 
have been written with more compliant code that Netscape 4 does not 
support. The number of unsupported sites grows every day. Even on Ebay, 
some of the auctions won't fully load. Switch to Mozilla and bingo, in 
half a second the whole page is shown.

As for Netscape 7.1, it is based on Mozilla 1.4. Mozilla is now at 1.7 
with tons of bugs fixed and many new features added. The only reason 
anyone should use Netscape 7 is if you want netscape web mail available 
on the side bar because Mozilla does not support that. Other than that, 
do yourself a favor and upgrade to Mozilla 1.7. If you want stand alone 
browser, try Mozilla Firefox 0.9 beta. Excellent. If you want stand 
alone mail, try Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.

Looked on Netscape.com and checked out the 7.1 download link. It appears 
to be the same 7.1 that has been available for a year. Am I looking in 
the wrong place?




Gary McCartney

McCartney Electronics
Guelph Ontario Canada
Est. 1984
email: gary (at) number63.ca







Phil Bader wrote:
> 
> 
> I ditched Netscape because my older 4.7 version didn't work well with 
> many web sites. I went with Mozilla. Still there are technical sites 
> where only IE works. But another issue.
> I was told Netscape was passe' and not supported anymore. There still is 
> netscape.com, and on that URL there is a new version of netscape 7.1 to 
> download. Whats the deal? Bad info?
> Phil Bader
> 


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