Melissa Liberty - Colorado wrote: > Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>Melissa Liberty - Colorado wrote: >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Melissa Liberty - Colorado) wrote in >>> <3c405ade$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> >>> >>>>I'm not a developer or anything, but I've used Navigator for years, and >>>>now Communicator. Only the latest version of Communicator ( all I use it >>>>for is a browser anyway ) crashes on me all the time. >>>> >>>>So I was asking some questions about browsers in a browser group and >>>>someone suggested trying Mozilla. >>>> >>>>I tried it at work first ( 400 MHz Pentium, 128 megs, running NT4x ) and >>>>it seems to work ok there, perhaps a little immature as an app. >>>> >>>>So I decided to try it at home now too. ( K6-300 128 megs running Win >>>>98SE ) >>>> >>>>But the one at work appears able to import my Communicator bookmarks and >>>>this one doesn't. How come? >>>> >>> >>> Never mind, I found the import function. But I won't be able to use >>> Mozilla at home anyway. Every time I click on the top menus, it hangs >>> everything for about a minute. >>> >>> >> >>Melissa, >> >>I got that too, same system configuration as your Win98 box, but only on >>Mozilla 0.9.7, I'd suggest getting either Mozilla 0.9.6 or Netscape >>6.2.1 available at >>http://home.netscape.com/computing/download/index.html?cp=hophb2 > > Must be a bug then. Hope tghey fix it by next release. It may be doing > something particular to Pentium architecture and screwing up when it hits an > AMD. They should check into that. Are they careful in light of writing it for > AMD's too? >
I suspect it's W98 related. Moz has always run fine for me on an Athlon under W2K. > I tried Netscape 6 and just didn't like the look & feel. Don't like MSIE > either. > >>There are also other, faster browsers based on the Mozilla engine such >>as K-Meleon at http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net, it's ONLY a browser, >>nothing else, but it's only about 5 megs installed, and it runs great, >>it is also compatable with SUN JAVA 2, and Macromedia Flash plug-ins for >>Netscape 6.xx. > > All I need is a browser. I prefer Xnews for a reader and Pegasus for mail. > Sounds like it could be worth a try. > >>Hope this is of help. > > Yes, thank you. > > -- Software is like sex, it's better when it's free -Linus Torvalds
