On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 10:36:59 +0800,
Jonathan Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:I am currently using netscape communicator 4.76 on windows ME and I am
:thinking of upgrading to either netscape 6 or mozilla. I have heard bad
:things about the new browsers with regard to stability, compatibility
:and stuff and I want to know:
:1.which is the best version of netscape/mozilla to download and where do
:I get it?
Get Netscape 6.1 if you want the nice polished stuff. Get whatever the
latest Mozilla milestone is (currently 0.9.4) if you don't need a
spellchecker and are willing to fiddle to get plugins to work.
:2.how stable is mozilla/ns6? Is it stable enough to use as my primary
:browser?
Definitely. Its main problem is that its arse is incredibly fat - takes a
bucket of memory and CPU, and leaks memory horribly (much less than
previously, though). Nevertheless, it's my primary browser.
:and 3.how compatible is it? Are there any things that are known not to
:work? I dont want to install a new browser only to find that none of the
:pages I visit work anymore...
It's compatible with W3C standards; not so compatible with what Microsoft
uses as IE-"standard" markup language. But it does pretty well even on that
stuff.
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