25 Aug
2010
25 Aug
'10
6:08 p.m.
On 26 August 2010 01:54, Jerome H. Fine <jhfinedp3k at compsys.to> wrote:
Aside from the fact that Netscape 7.2 has features
(which I use every day)
that current Internet
Explorer does not have, it seems to serve my purposes when I want to look at
the classiccmp list.
I'm sure it does, but it's old, slow, can't cope with a lot of modern
site features, and has many unpatched security exploits in it. For
browsers, you really should run something current.
So it comes across as great that SeaMonkey would
possibly allow me to keep
all of my e-mail
and classiccmp correspondence as is. ?Do you have a link to SeaMonkey? ?When
I Google
for SeaMonkey, there does not seem to be a browser available.
[?] It is the 3rd link on Google:
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/
Also, there seems to be a Netscape 8.0 available.
?Might that be better than
Netscape 7.2
even if not as good as SeaMonkey? ?My goal is to have something that works
equally well
since as far as I am concerned, if my current memory could expand to 2 GB
(motherboard
is limited to 756 MB), I would stay with Windows 98SE. ?The speed of the
core 2 duo
is not a major benefit although I will not throw it away if it is there.
No. Abandon Win98. It was not a good version of Windows when it was
new and it's a positive liability now. XP is overall a far more
pleasant experience. If you *really* want to stay with a "retro"
version of Windows, Windows 2000 is still fairly usable, but a lot of
modern programs and drivers won't work.
On the other hand, I seem to recall that Netscape 8.0
was not really
compatible with
Netscape 7.2 which may have been why I avoided the upgrade when it became
available. ?Can anyone comment on this possibility?
AFAICR it's the same codebase; there should not be any /major/ issues.
Frankly, you'd be better off with Thunderbird and Firefox, which are
the email/news bit of Netscape 7.x/8.x and the Web browser bit split
into standalone apps. Still fairly comfortable and relatively
familiar, but more modern and streamlined. It does pay to turn off a
few of the new features of Thunderbird 3, though.
However, if you prefer the all-in-one approach and as familiar a tool
as possible, SeaMonkey is the way to go.
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