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dhlucke   07-01-2001 at 11:12:25 AM

Seriously, I used to love netscape, but NS6 is garbage, well it would be good if it worked, but it doesn't. NS4 hasn't improved since 4.08. What the hell are they thinking?

Just for fun, go check out pricewatch's new garbage site. It's bad in IE, but it's unreadable in Netscape. I think everyone has given up on them. Pricewatch obviously didn't even look at thier site in netscape.

I bring this up since it's really becoming a problem designing websites for thier stupid browser. It's old school and really needs to get it's act in gear or pull over... Sites are starting to forget about them. I suppose we could say that it's IE that is different from NS, but NS hasn't changed in years (NS6 doesn't work so it doesn't count).

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peteb   07-01-2001 at 02:25:25 PM
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agree - my current impression of Netscape is that it is slow and crap - other than that it is fine. I'm no great fan of MS, but at browsing IE beats it hands down.

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LordKaos   07-01-2001 at 02:47:58 PM
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Well, i´m sorry to say that Opera is going down the drain also!
The latests versions (5.10 or 5.11)are almost as bad as Netscape 6! Stick with Opera 5.02!
I´m just pumping up my patience to re-install everything and send all that crap to the bushes!


Why should you learn from your mistakes?
Learn from other´s! It´s cheaper and less painfull! :-D

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rcf84   07-01-2001 at 04:59:35 PM
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Well microsoft (mircocrap) is planning to dump IE for the MSN browser. I hate MSN thats why i got cable.

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mpjesse   07-01-2001 at 05:46:02 PM
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Yeah- I don't like pricewatch's new design. It sucks.

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rcf84   07-01-2001 at 06:02:31 PM
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there new design for pricewatch does suck.

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327goat   07-01-2001 at 10:01:24 PM
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I always used to use Netscape over IE, until netscape's soul was bought by devil that is AOL. It seems that's the exact point at which Netscape went downhill.

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dhlucke   07-01-2001 at 11:07:14 PM
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Both ICQ and Netscape went to crap once AOL bought them out...

Does the newest NS6 do javascript correctly yet? Is it stable? I used NS6 in the begining and nothing really worked and it crashed.

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327goat   07-01-2001 at 11:15:14 PM
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AOL ownes icq?

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dhlucke   07-01-2001 at 11:21:23 PM
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Yeah, they bought them out about 4 years ago for something like 150 million dollars. Slowly buy surely they are making icq into a cumbersome and unusable product (unless you tweak the hell out of it). I wonder who owns Real networks. Wouldn't surprise me if AOL owned them too...

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Kelledin   07-02-2001 at 01:47:10 AM
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I know, Pricewatch+Netscape has been bad for a long, long time, starting somewhere back in the NS4 days. I personally almost never use Netscape anymore. I tend to use Konqueror most of the time in Linux, and IE most of the time in Windows. Occasionally I'll use Mozilla, but Mozilla's startup time is just horrible.

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kal326   07-02-2001 at 11:05:19 AM
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Anybody ever wonder why AOL would own Netscape, but use some fuc|<ed version of IE in their own software? One would think if you owned a browser of your own that you would atleast use it over somebody elses one.

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FatBurger   07-02-2001 at 06:33:56 PM
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Quote :

I hate MSN thats why i got cable.


Yeah, tell me about it. I had to use Netzero for about two months while MSN tried to get their act together to help me fix it. I even reinstalled Windows twice, MSN's software about 20 times, etc.
I'm getting cable soon.

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