: "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: >
: >Actually, I thought that Jackson argued that MS subtly designed Windows
to
: >cause Netscape to crash. It installs just fine, sure, it just won't run
: >for very long once you get it on there.
: Joshua Bell wrote:
: Various versions of Netscape were (and presumably still are) part of the
: test suites for the OS. The OS wouldn't ship if an app as popular as
: Netscape wasn't thoroughly tested. My hypothesis for the behavior you saw
: would be that the Netscape code base through version 4 was a mess. The
fact
: that they threw it away and wrote v6 from scratch should be telling.
Um, they *didn't* write it from scratch - although none of the previous code
was used. Netscape v6 is based on the Mozilla open source project browser,
but, as is often the case, the marketing dweebs got their dirty little
fingers into the pie and refused to let go, thus ensuring that v6 is as
unstable as v4.x - in fact, on my machine, more so. I can run v4.x if I'm
willing to put up with browser crashes and lockups and the occassional OS
lockup or crash, but v6 in its current form is so horrendous I can't use it.
It sure does *look* pretty, though...
Marc
