Does your netscape browser work?

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[cootis]

My netscape 4.75 browser back button returns to the top of the page rather than the area of post of the article. This browser works on other web pages. Does anyone know what causes this?

[demsux]

Mine's doing the same thing...just started a few days ago. I've got a cable modem and Netscape 6.2, but it runs slower than 4.

[B Knotts]

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/2.2.2; Linux 2.4.14-xfs; X11; i686; en) works OK here.

[NativeNewYorker]

kmeleon

or Opera

"No. There is another." --Yoda

[Leroy S. Mort]

Try upgrading to Netscape 4.79. New version just came out last month for the 4 series browsers. Stay away from Netscape 6. It's a dog, imho.

[danneskjold]

...can't stand the layout of that pile the whole screen is filled with IE and there's no room left to browse the internet.

Press F11...

[danneskjold]

I noticed the same thing - it started this past Saturday or so. It seems to be a page rendering anomaly related to html tables.

Netscape has a bug that causes pages with nested tables to load very slowly, sometimes not at all. The problem is particularly bad when the whole page is a table, with other tables nested inside...

[pops88]

Opera wins my vote hands down. I decided to try it a while back when I got sick of Netscape crashing. I love Opera and they've made it free now, too.

[Leroy S. Mort]

If I go to IE for just a minute or so I can get a hundred or so cookies loaded to "Temporary Internet Files".

Set your cookie preferences in Tools/Internet Options/Privacy. You can turn em off completely if you want, or various levels on up to accepting all.

[Gasshog]

Netscape version-anything sucks

I wanted to be a IE-Rebel for years but finally caved, Netscape is not Java-friendly and I went through crash-after-crash until I dumped it.

Of course IE isnt perfect and someone will also find a new way to put crazy pop-up ads and other Java-crap on their websites to annoy us and confuse the best of browser software.

[Gasshog]

Give in to the Monopoly, Luke.

Yeah. LOL!

[RogueIsland]

If I go to IE for just a minute or so I can get a hundred or so cookies loaded to "Temporary Internet Files".

Then turn off cookies under Internet Options. Cookies are sent by the servers you are visiting.

[RLK]

I've had the same problem for about a week. Formerly, Netscape returned to where I left off. There has been an apparent program change at Freerepublic that causes it.

[JoeSchem]

Funny, I'm using Netscape Communicator 4.0.2, and I don't have the problem you describe.

Whenever people report irreproducible problems in non-Microsoft products, I become suspicious about them possibly being in the pay of Microsoft. Please forgive me for expressing that suspicion now, but we've seen an awful lot of Microsoft cheerleading articles recently.

[PaulKersey]

>Try upgrading to Netscape 4.79. New version just came out last month for the 4 series browsers. Stay away from Netscape 6. It's a dog, imho.

Net 6 WAS a dog, but Netscape 6.2 works fine.

[discostu]

I find alt-F4 much more effective.

[JessicaDragonet]

While we are on the subject of glitches...maybe someone can tell me why all of a sudden, I have to manually maximize a window after it downloads. Otherwise...it won't show.

[discostu]

How's the back button work in framed pages. That was really the bug that drove me screaming from Netscape 6. 4.x is perfect, click on back to back to last version of the frame hold down to get the popup and jump all the way out to the page before you got in frame land. With six (all back button clicking kicked you out to the page before frame land) the browser became completely unusable in framed sites (which I still hit a lot of).

And I really don't like that squishy rounded fake chromed UI that's in vogue these days. I'm really hoping to avoid all new applications until that fad passes.

[DownWithGreenspan]

Just upgraded from Netscape 4.73 to 4.79 - no difference. Is FR suddenly part of the Micro$oft conspiracy? :-)

Whatever you changed a few days ago, Jim Rob, please change it back. But even if you don't, this is not enough to make me switch to IE!

[LarryLied]

I have netscape 4.5 running off AOL on a 6500 Mac (OS8) with 32mgs of ram. Getting more than a few sites which lock me up and force a restart. Yeah, I could upgrade but I'm not about to give in. I don't want games, I don't want fancy graphics, all I use the net for is to read and, on occasion, write. FR's software is wonderful. Fast loading and easy to navigate. It may get to the point where I go nowhere else. But most everything of interest is here anyways.

[BJungNan]

The newest version of Netscape is really bad. I never thought I would return to IE. AOL has ruined Netscape.