> From: Len Gerstel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [G] Explorer unexpectedly quitting in OSX > Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 06:43:10 -0400 > > > On Aug 31, 2005, at 6:38 AM, Andrew Grebneff wrote: > >>> Yes, I have an idea. The point of X is to get away from IE... >>> (eg, the one compelling reason I have forked out dough on a QS >>> is to use the modern browsers to see how my web work looks and >>> for the DVD). So use Safari, or Mozilla. IE is fine up to a >>> point in OS 9 (I have no idea of the classic program in X, while >>> it is a neat prgm, I am not captivated from what I have seen, it >>> is slow, it is unreliable and so on with many 9 apps). IE >>> especially is so ... so... idiosyncratic in its programming that >>> I would not trust it unless booted in 9. The Mac version 5.1.6 >>> is surprisingly good but getting weaker all the time because of >>> CSS developments in web design. >> >> Thanks. >> >> I have installed Mozilla, but there is no application that I can >> find... just a folder (under System: Documents) with such items as >> cache, chrome, liprefs.js, Netscape history, mail, news etc. Sherlock >> can only find this folder, an OSX installer and 3 preferences. It >> actually seems to be a Netscape setup... and Netscape is awful!! So >> where does Mozilla itself go to when instalkled in OS9.2? Or is it a >> parasitic item which utilizes Netscrape? Every item I click on opens >> Netscape. From what I can see, Mozilla ppears just to be Netscape! >> > > Mozilla does not work in 9, only X. For the closest thing to Mozilla > for 9, you would need to use the Wamcom rewrite of mozilla available at > Wamcom.org > > Len
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