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To: Knitebane

Does anyone use NetScape. That browser used to be my favorite many years ago. I learned how to create web pages from it and it was free. Then eventually I had to start using IE due to it being "everywhere".


57 posted on 11/04/2004 4:20:30 PM PST by FreeManWhoCan ("Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: FreeManWhoCan

Haven't used Netscape since version 3.02Gold. That takes me back to Win 3.11 days.


63 posted on 11/04/2004 4:23:04 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper (Congratulations President-Re-Elect George W. Bush!)
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To: FreeManWhoCan

Mozilla Still has composer. It is a lot like netscape communicator. Just highly updated. I still miss a few things from 4.7, but I don't think Mozilla will ever include them.

1. Long bookmark files executing into columns when accessed(instead of that disfuncional scrolling which you can't control)

2.Right click on a page and save a shortcut to the desktop.

3. Right click and "Set As Wall paper"

The old Netscape user interface was simply way ahead of its time.


69 posted on 11/04/2004 4:26:45 PM PST by Revel
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To: FreeManWhoCan

I quit using Netscape around version 4.7. I was on dial-up. It would hang up, glitch, burp, stall out, and I noticed it sending a lot of info back to Netscape.

I could load the same webpages (that caused Netscape to crash) in IE and had no problem. I migrated to IE. For the last 3 years I have been using an IE based tab browser. Tabbed browsers are great for FR to open article links, etc. IE has been slow to change and update--still no tabs.


81 posted on 11/04/2004 4:30:30 PM PST by TomGuy (His VN crumbling, he says 'move on'. So now, John Kerry is running on Bob KerrEy's Senate record.)
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To: FreeManWhoCan

Mozilla is made by a lot of the game guys who worked on Netscape, so there are some similarities. Netscape 7.x has about 0.5% marketshare of web browsers. Firefox is approaching 10%, IE is sliding down to 90%. Some people do still indeed use Netscape, but IMO, with Mozilla and Firefox available, there's no need to use Netscape any longer. Heck, Opera is good too.


112 posted on 11/04/2004 4:58:34 PM PST by Terpfen (Anyone who worried about the election: crack a smile. We won.)
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