Jason Bassford wrote:
>> If the two source code trees are just about
>> the same, why bother making a netscape 6.1?
>
> The commercial companies are different, so each who makes a browser
> based on Mozilla can customize it for their purposes.
>
> As *users*, however, I can see no reason to use anything other than
> Mozilla.
other than the Java and Flash plugins, spellcheck, AOL Messenger and the
spiffy Netscape icon ;)
though these can be installed using Mozilla, most users will prefer
everything in one package.
> I suspect that Netscape will most certainly lose market
> share to Mozilla in the future as it's existence becomes more well
> known. (Also since many have already switched to Mozilla in light of
> Netscape 6's (Mozilla .6) bugginess in favour of more recent Mozilla
> builds.
i'm guessing most of the people who switched to 6.0x in the first place are
the type that install every major browser and new release, and so are
likely to give 6.1 a try to see how different it is from Mozilla.
sure, ofcourse Mozilla will give Netscape some competition.. but not to the
extent as thought in the past (after the way Netscape messed up with 6.0).
IMHO, Netscape 6.1PR1 is 'better' (read: everything and a little bit more)
than Mozilla 0.9.1.
Brendon
