I've read this netscape thread long enough, now I have to comment.
>From personal experience using netscape on Linux for web browsing
and as my email client I can say that it is a pile of crap and it stinketh
greatly. I tried a number of alternatives including mozilla but wasn't 100%
satisfied. Tried various GTK ones like galeon and a couple of others.
Then when KDE2 came out I tried konqueror and kmail and I
couldn't be more happy. Never crashes, has all the features I want, 99.9%
of pages display correctly. kmail also work beautifully. You should all
try konqueror. You might want to recompile your qt library with
-fno-exceptions to save memory on machines with low memory.
Now would you all stop you belly aching about netscape. It's not as free as
konqueror and not even in the same league. Netscape wasn't created
open source and it shows. I've heard the code is quite unmaintainable.
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John
On Thursday 16 November 2000 11:32, Rick Welykochy wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Kevin Waterson wrote:
> > Why all the whinging about a company who has for a long
> > time supported linux/open source.
>
> Agreed 110%. They've been behind open source and
> alternative platforms for along time.
>
> > What efforts have you made to remedy any of the faults?
> > Have you submitted a bug report?
>
> Yes I have. With no reply :-(
>
> > have you contacted developers?
> > Are you on a mailing list for netscape?
>
> Umm .. that's a bit onerous. I do not have the time or
> inclination to join a mailing list for each product
> I use. I'd never get anything done and my
> mailbox would overflow.
>
> > If you answer yes to more than one of the above
> > and still have a legitimate complaint for a product
> > that has been made freely available, then use MS, they
> > also have a free browser.
>
> Fortunately IE does not run on Linux.
>
> My own whinges about Netscape 6.0 is that by their own admission
> they've introduced heaps of bugs, and removed features we've
> become accustomed to using.
>
> Sounds like a re-write from the ground up.
>
> It really saddens me, since I'll be sticking with a
> dead-end version (4.7). And yup, I know of poeple sticking with
> Netscopae 3.1, since that was a good, usable, unbloated
> stable version.
>
>
>
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