The real deal behind the downplaying of Netscape's browser is that AOL Time Warner doesn't want to jeprodize their position of being bundled into Windows XP along with MSN when Joe Average user gets his new Wintel box and he clicks on the "Connect to the Internet" shortcut. There's a LOT of dollars, marks, francs (insert the local currency of your choice here) at stake here and Microsoft is being the hard nosed negotiatiors that they can be as a monopoly.
Netscape Navigator will never completely die but it may become harder to come by if AOL gets bundled with XP.
BTW, Pac, iCab renders your webzine just fine. So I still don't have to use Gates' shit to use the Internet. :P
This includes office 2k
Aahz.
As for me, I still use Netscape . . Netscape 4.77 specifically.
Why? Very simple. If I install Internet Explorer, I would like to be able to remove it, completely, if I so choose.
But oooh no! Bully Boy Bill in Redmond will have absolutely none of that . . I've found that the only way to get rid of IE completely once it's been installed is to format and reinstall the OS, because I don't know all the secret stuff to do to get rid of it, and I suspect that it changes some of the OS's files anyway.
But I haven't used IE since the time when version 3 would crash constantly on me, and I do mean constantly!!
Simple, while I have some not-so-decrepit PCs , I have some older ones that don't meet the minimum hardware requirements! Not to mention that I'm fairly sure that IE is not exactly a lightweight when it comes to system resources either!
And IE lacks the one thing that Netscape has to really quickly put an end to the continous "we'll do popups eternally and you can't stop us no matter how many windows you close" problem . . .
IE does not have Netscape's equivalent of File->Quit
I run win ME on my other machine, unfortunatly though windows lite isn't ready for the newer ME OS yet
:-P
--Bad Irving
As IE seems to be the only UA that I've used that actually works all the time why bother with something else - it hasn't crashed more than 7 times in 2 years and really after that sort of technical anaylsis I stop caring.
So really if getting rid of Netscapes cuts down on the number of people experiencing problems, is it a bad thing?
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Originally posted by Prophet Tenebrae:
So really if getting rid of Netscapes cuts down on the number of people experiencing problems, is it a bad thing?
Yes, as a matter of fact, it is. I presume that you own MSFT (the stock)? If not, this is the time to buy it. Unlike your beloved UK, this country was founded on the principles of freedom of choice (among others) so why should I have something forced upon me that I neither want nor use?
I tend to agree with Bad Irving. If it works, use it but don't try to shove your opinion down my throat.
BTW, this opinion was written with the aid of the computer for those who Think Differently.