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I just installed Netscape because I'm fed up to the teeth with IE 6.0 generating glitches of one description or another every 10 or so webpages. (Even after repairing and even reinstalling it a few times).
So far, so good, Netscape is performing better than IE did, no errors at all in the first hour of use, so I hope that's the norm and it's going to stay that way. It's just getting over the new layout of things that takes a bit of getting used to, but overall I've adjusted to it and am getting used to browsing with a slightly different font and layout (I've used nothing but Internet Explorer ever since I first went online 5(?) years ago.
Did I do good or does Netscape come with a host of problems that they didn't tell me about in thier glossy writeup on the download page?
So far, so good, Netscape is performing better than IE did, no errors at all in the first hour of use, so I hope that's the norm and it's going to stay that way. It's just getting over the new layout of things that takes a bit of getting used to, but overall I've adjusted to it and am getting used to browsing with a slightly different font and layout (I've used nothing but Internet Explorer ever since I first went online 5(?) years ago.
Did I do good or does Netscape come with a host of problems that they didn't tell me about in thier glossy writeup on the download page?
Not really. Mozilla took the 4.7 code and worked from there, yet the new engine is barely recognisable from the original, and now Netscape use the Mozilla code for their new browsers.
..in a nutshell..
Mozilla will always be better.
..in a nutshell..
Mozilla will always be better.
I use Mozilla, which is what Netscape is derived from. If you lot have no problem with Netscape then either you are lucky or the Netscape coders have cleaned up all Mozillas bugs, as Mozilla is rather unstable. I don't use IE6 any more after I was shown a test webpage that could delete any folder it chose on your hard disk.
Netscape bites. Always has, always will. I like its ability to destroy a perfectly coded webpage, and the fact that it has to reload a page when you want to scroll down.
I used to use Netscape all the time, but - as cjh has said - more and more people started using the little 'features' in IE that meant Netscape ruined the structure of some pages - so I switched to IE.
It's annoying, because - once again - Microsoft implemented their own features that were non-standard (i.e. not W3C compliant), while Netscape has always been 100% 'legal'.
It's now been about 18 months since I even had Netscape installed, so I don't know if they've accounted for these issues in Netscape or not.
It's annoying, because - once again - Microsoft implemented their own features that were non-standard (i.e. not W3C compliant), while Netscape has always been 100% 'legal'.
It's now been about 18 months since I even had Netscape installed, so I don't know if they've accounted for these issues in Netscape or not.
As far as I can tell, Netscape is perfect for browsing the Web.
It's indevidual Web Pages that sometimes may be a problem. Because MS have coded in little extra's in IE which arn't in Netscape, you may find some web pages look awful in Netscape but cool in IE.
Appart from that, I've had no problems with Netscape at all.
It's indevidual Web Pages that sometimes may be a problem. Because MS have coded in little extra's in IE which arn't in Netscape, you may find some web pages look awful in Netscape but cool in IE.
Appart from that, I've had no problems with Netscape at all.
I just installed Netscape because I'm fed up to the teeth with IE 6.0 generating glitches of one description or another every 10 or so webpages. (Even after repairing and even reinstalling it a few times).
So far, so good, Netscape is performing better than IE did, no errors at all in the first hour of use, so I hope that's the norm and it's going to stay that way. It's just getting over the new layout of things that takes a bit of getting used to, but overall I've adjusted to it and am getting used to browsing with a slightly different font and layout (I've used nothing but Internet Explorer ever since I first went online 5(?) years ago.
Did I do good or does Netscape come with a host of problems that they didn't tell me about in thier glossy writeup on the download page?
So far, so good, Netscape is performing better than IE did, no errors at all in the first hour of use, so I hope that's the norm and it's going to stay that way. It's just getting over the new layout of things that takes a bit of getting used to, but overall I've adjusted to it and am getting used to browsing with a slightly different font and layout (I've used nothing but Internet Explorer ever since I first went online 5(?) years ago.
Did I do good or does Netscape come with a host of problems that they didn't tell me about in thier glossy writeup on the download page?