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Well I hope its not the same jury OJ Simpson had.....:eek: ...Let me know some more details about the fetures and speed when you find out. I use to love it years ago when it was faster than IE. Would be nice to use another product besides M$.

-Chris

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Who cares if it is faster than IE, if it keeps crashing :) Everytime Netscape releases an new version, I download it and check it out just to see if it has improved any. I quit doing that after 6.0, because it crashed like crazy and I just don't like the look and feel of it compared to IE. Then that is just my opinion :rolleyes:

Alister

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Its better to test out Mozilla on its own. Netscape uses this engine. but its without the bloated crap Netscape add to it.

Mozilla = 9Mb

Netscape = 26Mb

see?

ht*p://www.mozilla.org

I hardly use it, but I still keep it on my system as a backup. It won't mess with your IE file associations either.

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  • 2 months later...

New to this forum and to XP!

I don't use XP or Netscape (Win98 and IE6), but my husband has just gotten a new XP and has always used Netscape. I am trying to get his computer up and running while he works to pay for it. I cannot figure out how to have Netscape automatically dial up. He has to log onto our ISP first, then open Netscape. Netscape will automatically dial up from my computer. Is this just something he will have to put up with with XP? BTW, IE6 will automatically dial up on the XP.:wail:

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Yeah, Mozilla is the way to go. As a Mozilla 'helper' I would just like to say that Mozilla and Netscape are the exact same, with the following differances:

  1. Netscape has a spell checker. Mozilla doesn't. Netscape can't give this to Mozilla, since it is licensed
  2. Netscape includes some vanity things, like putting an AOL icon on your computer, including AOL Instant Messenger, and including WinAmp. Mozilla doesn't have this commercial bloat
  3. Netscape comes with Java. Mozilla doesn't. However, this is similar to IE6 in XP with Java, When you goto a page with Java, it will allow you to download the Java plugin. So this isn't too big of an issue anymore. Though the source code isn't available.
  4. Netscape is a commercial product. Mozilla is now an open source project that is independent of Netscape.
  5. There are other things that Netscape has licensed and can't include into the Mozilla source, But I cant think of them right now. But it is on the Mozilla faq at http://www.mozilla.org.
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    That's all I can think of right now. Mostly just a spell checker...
    And as AaronXP pointed out, the size differance alone is worth it :)
    By the way, it should be noted Mozilla is still a beta version and in very active development. Netscape really shouldn't be using it in a commercial product, but even in active development, the Mozilla milestone releases still kick a**. Netscape just doesn't want to wait the next few months when 1.0 is scheduled to be ready and released :cool: But as some have noted, it really tarnished the Netscape name, putting at the time a quite unstable and slow release of Mozilla and calling it stable.
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But Opera costs money, or you must suffer viewing advertisements.

At least IE is free for any type of use. And Mozilla/Netscape beats both by having the source code available.

One other browser that deserves mention is Konqueror, part of the KDE project. Though I dont think it runs on Windows, it is truly a nice, clean, and powerful browser.

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What about hackers? I kind of stay away from open source code products that allow a hacker to "customize" open source code applications.

Could a person slip a customized floppy into a PC that invokes mayhem with open source browsers? Could WinXP Remote Assistance be an avenue to "customizing" open source applications?

About the dialing thing. Any good Internet Service Provider (ISP) provides a "Dialer". It is usually downloaded from your ISP Support Site and is used to connect directly to the internet. Telephone or surf to your ISP web site and obtain the dialer if available. For me, this is the easiest method.

MSNwar - The FatMan

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Umm, your concern is actually the opposite really.. First, lets start with the fact that just because the source is available, doesn't mean that someone can alter anything on your computer because of that. Next, by having the source available, people can check it out, see what exactly the application does. It's VERY difficult, if not impossible, to have a backdoor or anything nasty in an opensource application. This is the 'many eyes' principle, and one of the greatest strengths of open source software.

Furthermore, just because the source to say, IE, isnt available, doesn't mean the binary can't be modified to have it contain a backdoor, or any other nasty code. Crackers do this all the time, and it's quite easy. Just look at cheats for CS, they don't have the source, but they sure modify that game around like they do.

Open source is safer than closed source. Do you know what is in Microsoft products? How do you know that MS hasn't agreed to implant backdoors for the government? This isn't possible with opensource, too many people look at the code, modify the code, fix the code so that things like that don't even occur. Even if you're not a programmer, you can appreciate open source software and all that it offers.

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Opera 6 is by far the fastest and most stable browser i have ever used,its quite easy to make the ads disappear,just do a keygen search :)

The latest Mozilla deserves an honerable mention,havent had any trouble with the mail program at all,i dont use the main browser much but the few times that i did i never experienced anything bad about it.

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I am always on the lookout for a better browser than IE and test all new ones at work to see if they are up to the job.

At the moment IE is the ONLY browser that can display all pages I view correctly, both Opera and Netscape have failed miserably at pages I use every day, and Konqueror was even worse. A page like vnunet is unusable with Opera and almost any site that heavily uses script fails under Netscape.

Netscape and Opera are quick at rendering pages, but what use is this if the pages don't operate correctly?

Sorry, but at the moment in my opinion IE is the only real option.

:hohum

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i will have to say that Netscape 6.2 is ok, but it still takes longer to load than IE (on windows XP) and what they ripped off the MSN interface or something! overall i think that opera is the fastest! but of course i have had problems with opera not wanting to open certain download links!

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