Thanks. I'll d/l it and try it on my home machine. What's this about
'nightlies' I see here? Are there new builds released every day? If so, why
aren't they called 'dailies'? And how bleeding edge must one be to install
each new nightly as it comes out? After all, you know how they recognize
pioneers.
Scott
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> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Scott G."
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> >Interesting. I was not aware that Mozilla/NS6 were complete rewrites.
> >Beginning with which version?
>
> The rewrite started about two years ago, when the idea of trying to build
on
> the NS4 codebase was dumped. Every version of Mozilla since about October
1998
> has been from the new codebase. It's probably over 90% new code.
>
> >Also, I have avoided d/l and install of NS6 because (a) our company's
> >corporate standard is IE5.01 and (b) of the many problems I have seen
with
> >it in the various newsletters I subscribe to. Any idea when these will be
> >addressed?
>
> A lot of them are addressed already in Mozilla, which recently released
> version 0.8. It'll hit 1.0 sometime in the second quarter of this year all
> going well. I use it as my main browser now and have very few problems.
> Netscape 6.5 should be based on version 1.0, so it might be worth waiting
> until then if you want to try it out (or try Mozilla 0.8 now, as it's a
big
> step forward from Netscape 6).
>
> ian.
>
>
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