On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 20:52, Paul wrote:
> It was Wed, 25 Jul 2001 13:15:59 +1000 when Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> >Netscape 6 is _not_ a clone of Mozilla, or vice-versa, as has been
> > suggested before. Mozilla is an open source (in fact, it is GPL) project
> > to create a fully standards-compliant, cross-platform browser. Netscape 6
> > is Mozilla with a few "enhancements" made by AOL (who own Netscape).
> > Netscape 6 is not updated nearly as often as Mozilla, and it is slightly
> > heavier on a system (because of the unnecessary "enhancements"). If you
> > want to use the Gecko engine, use Mozilla, Nautilus or Galeon. Don't
> > bother with Netscape 6.
>
> Netscape is also programmed in a sloppy way. It is famous for its memory
> leaks.
> Paul
This is the case with Netscape 4.x. Netscape 6 is bad because it is based on
an early version of Mozilla (Milestone 18, released late last year). As I
mentioned before, Netscape 6.x is simply Mozilla code with extras bolted on.
There is nothing new or innovative about it. AOL decided to use the latest
version of Mozilla at the time, M18, for Netscape 6 instead of waiting until
Mozilla was complete (which wasn't such a bad idea because Mozilla _still_
isn't finished now). Netscape 6.1, is based on Mozilla 0.9. The Mozilla code
is not forked in any major way (which would be harmful). All that happens is
that from time to time Netscape will take the most recent Mozilla release and
add some junk on top.
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan.
"There are two major products that come from Berkeley:
LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
-- Jeremy S. Anderson
