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At 03:33 AM 12/17/98 -0500, Tracy Marks wrote:
>I am so fed up with Netscape crashing a dozen times a day
>that I am finally switching to Internet Explorer and may soon start
>teaching IE instead of Communicator. Losing about 1 1/2 hrs.
>work a day (not only rebooting but also having to refind web
>pages that were lost in a crash) isn't worth the satisfaction
>of NOT supporting Bill Gates any more than I have to.

(snip)

>What I'd like to know, is those of you who've used both extensively
>(preferably versions 4), WHAT DO YOU consider to be the
>advantages or disadvantages of each.....specifically. (And if you
>have  solutions for any of the above issues, PLEASE share them)

Tracy, I have almost the exact opposite experiences as you.  Netscape 4.x
is extremely stable, and IE 4 has a history of not only crashing but
corrupting desktops when installed.  IE 4 also seems to hog resources,
particularly on NT, and doesn't always process JavaScript properly (though
it's worlds better than IE 3).  Netscape 4 is the standard browser for
Children's Hospital.

Granted, the full Netscape 4.x suite can cause problems with computers with
either limited RAM or free disk space, and the Mac version is somewhat more
volatile than its Windows cousin.  For machines with limited resources, try
the Navigator-only verison of 4.x, available at Netscape's Web site
(http://home.netscape.com/download/index.html).  One thing I have my eye on
is Gecko, the new Netscape engine developed under the auspices of
Mozilla.org.  It's supposed to be extremely small (less than 1MB) and
extremely fast, and I haven't heard anything bad about it yet.  To boot, it
will also finally give Netscape XML capability.


Brian Pomeroy
lunar@voicenet.com
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6346/bio.htm
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - http://www.chop.edu/