24 Jan
2002
24 Jan
'02
6:46 a.m.
Rumor has it that Richard Erlacher may have mentioned these words:
I wish my browsing were as fast as the other things I
do under Windows!
Nearly anything is over before I get my finger off the <ENTER> key. Note
that
I said key, and not mouse button. Unfortunately, the
Windows browser doesn't
work as well with keys as the rest of the GUI. One CAN learn to use the
keyboard, though.
Hell, *everything* I do is fast -- Winders & Linux! [[ahem... I have a
dual-processor Athlon MP 1600+ -- dual SCSI, dual LAN, etc... so I realize
this isn't a fair fight... ;-) ]]
[[ also see comments below from a different poster(s) ]]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Owen Robertson" <univac2(a)earthlink.net>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: PayPal = payola?
Amen. Which is too bad, because IMNSHO, Netscape always was better...
on 1/24/02 12:59 PM, Doc at doc(a)mdrconsult.com
wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Richard Erlacher wrote:
>
>> Since AOL bought Netscrape, they've done more to kill it than M$ ever
did. > >> I'll be glad when it's finally
gone, along with AOL, though.
> >
> > AMEN! I dunno about the Windows version, but NS 6 for Linux is a
> > buggy farce of a resource hog. Netscape was one of the front runners in
> > developing a Linux port of their mainstream application, and the Linux
> > port was always at least as stable as the Windows one. If that's still
> > true, Netscape is headed for the dumper. The quality & stability of the
> > Netscape suite has declined almost since the day AOL bought 'em.
"More
> > features! Screw debugging!"
Hmmm... dunno about the Mac version, but they've *really* improved the
Winders & Linux versions - 6.0 *just* *plain* *sucked* - and not just any
sucked - it sucked canal water rectally... ;-) It was slower than molasses
in January, as well...
6.1 didn't add a single feature - all they did is clean up bugs & speed it
up. 6.2 cleaned up some more, but they still had a few, hence 6.21. I've
only found one bug in 6.21, and that's trying to get rid of that idiot tab
feature in the mail program sometimes locked the application. After 3 or 4
tries, I was successful, and it's not crashed since. I usually keep it
running for a week at a time, and it usually crashes once or twice a month,
much less than Exploder 5.5 and seems to be faster as well, on Win2k. [At
work, I have a Celery 450] The linux port is just as stable, and a lot of
webpages (like my Yahoo Mail) look better on the new Netscape vs. IE 5.x.
I don't even have Netscape 4.x installed anymore... That's how stable 6.21 is!
As an install, Netscape 6.x is still smaller than IE6 as well, and IE is
still half-built-in to Winders...
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.