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Does your netscape browser work?
vanity | cootis

Posted on 12/11/2001 7:15:17 AM PST by 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?


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To: jackbill
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.
21 posted on 12/11/2001 7:33:39 AM PST by demsux
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To: cootis
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/2.2.2; Linux 2.4.14-xfs; X11; i686; en) works OK here.
22 posted on 12/11/2001 7:39:27 AM PST by B Knotts
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To: cootis
kmeleon

or Opera

"No. There is another." --Yoda

23 posted on 12/11/2001 7:42:10 AM PST by NativeNewYorker
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To: cootis
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.
24 posted on 12/11/2001 7:43:25 AM PST by Leroy S. Mort
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To: discostu
...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...

25 posted on 12/11/2001 7:43:27 AM PST by danneskjold
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To: earlyapex
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...

26 posted on 12/11/2001 7:46:02 AM PST by danneskjold
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To: nvatexan
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.
27 posted on 12/11/2001 7:47:34 AM PST by pops88
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To: jackbill
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.

28 posted on 12/11/2001 7:51:48 AM PST by Leroy S. Mort
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To: cootis
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.

29 posted on 12/11/2001 7:56:07 AM PST by Gasshog
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To: cootis
Give in to the Monopoly, Luke.

Yeah. LOL!

30 posted on 12/11/2001 7:57:09 AM PST by Gasshog
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To: jackbill
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.

31 posted on 12/11/2001 7:58:32 AM PST by RogueIsland
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To: cootis
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.
32 posted on 12/11/2001 8:00:17 AM PST by RLK
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To: cootis
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.

33 posted on 12/11/2001 8:01:11 AM PST by JoeSchem
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To: 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.

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

34 posted on 12/11/2001 8:02:06 AM PST by PaulKersey
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To: danneskjold
I find alt-F4 much more effective.
35 posted on 12/11/2001 8:03:07 AM PST by discostu
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To: Leroy S. Mort
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.
36 posted on 12/11/2001 8:05:14 AM PST by JessicaDragonet
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To: PaulKersey
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.

37 posted on 12/11/2001 8:06:23 AM PST by discostu
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To: Leroy S. Mort
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!

38 posted on 12/11/2001 8:11:11 AM PST by DownWithGreenspan
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To: cootis
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.
39 posted on 12/11/2001 8:13:46 AM PST by LarryLied
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To: goldstategop
The newest version of Netscape is really bad. I never thought I would return to IE. AOL has ruined Netscape.
40 posted on 12/11/2001 8:15:52 AM PST by BJungNan
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