How many use old browsers (e.g. =< Netscape 4 or IE 6) as their ONLY source of web content?

Jerome H. Fine jhfinedp3k at compsys.to
Thu Jul 9 07:16:29 CDT 2015


 >Liam Proven wrote:

>>On 3 July 2015 at 18:22, Jerome H. Fine <jhfinedp3k at compsys.to> wrote:
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>>I understand that Netscape has been replaced by Mozilla.  HOWEVER,
>>since CHROME seems to be the most widely used, would CHROME
>>be able to support the retention of ALL of my old e-mails and posts
>>from usenet?  Over the past 15 years, I probably have accumulated
>>over 100,000 e-mails and posts in about 130 folders!  So I would like
>>an easy upgrade path which supports being able to view and modify those
>>old e-mails and usenet posts.  Can CHROME support that?
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>Chrome is just a web browser. It does not do email at all.
>
>However, the program that was called Netscape 6.x & 7.x is alive and
>well. It was the "Mozilla Internet Suite" -- the final Netscape
>releases were Mozilla, rebadged. As Mozilla Inc now focuses on
>Firefox, the old Internet Suite was forked and is now called
>SeaMonkey.
>
>http://www.seamonkey-project.org/
>
>SeaMonkey will run fine on Windows 7.
>
>What you may have to do is this:
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>[1] Use an old version of Thunderbird (Mozilla's standalone email
>client) to import your Netscape 7 profile. Details here:
>
>http://kb.mozillazine.org/Migrate_from_Mozilla_Suite_or_Netscape_to_Thunderbird
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>[2] Use a newer version of Thunderbird to import the profile from old
>Thunderbird:
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>http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_migration_-_SeaMonkey
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>This should import your entire Netscape profile and continue to work just fine.
>
>However, in the first instance, copy your whole Netscape 7.2 profile
>from the Win98 machine to your unused Win7 machine. Reinstall Netscape
>7.2 on the new machine and check it works.
>
>You can download it here:
>http://sillydog.org/narchive/full67.php
>
>Then install SeaMonkey. It *should* notice and import your profile.
>
>It is very important to install Netscape *before* SeaMonkey.
>
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