Re: Alternatives to Netscape

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From: Christopher Biggs
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 00:00

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terry@perf.no.itg.telecom.com.au (Terry Dawson) moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

> >Incidentally, the latest version of Netscape4 for linux (beta release 6) 
> >is actually stable, and even java works. But it is really, really bloated
> >(using around 14M)
> 
> Despite the bloat I think Communicator/Linux makes a really nice mail
> reader which is my main reason for using it :)

Hmmn, what version are you using?   I can use 4.01b6 as a web browser
fine, but it crashes pretty much straight away when I try to read mail
or news...

I've seen it get over 50M of allocated memory, so "bloated" is a fair
cop, IMHO. :-)

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From: Christopher Biggs <chris@stallion.oz.au>
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Date: 1997/07/16
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