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In article <8ch8qo$5ra$1@freenet9.carleton.ca>,
Darrell A. Larose <ad607@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote:
>Well AOL's ownership of Netscape has now become apparent...
>
>I downloaded Netscape 6 PR1, and my impressions are, yuck!!!

It is a PreRelease.

It is BOUND to be superbug ware.

>
>Graphic Interface almost cartoonish, with taskbars and other
>tools stealing more of the desktop. They also have this very
>annoying "sidebar" that pops out on the left side of the browser
>window this takes 1/4 of the screen, fortunately you can minimize
>it each time it opens.
>
>Ok, more disappointments, from mouse click on icon to the full
>screen 25 seconds on my system (Win98SE PC, 333 Mhz, 64 megs RAM)
>versus 15 seconds for Netscape 4.72, and get this 5 seconds for
>MSIE 5.01. Browser window is smaller, viewing a known site that
>has an image 450 pixels high, will just fit a Netscape 4.x screen
>and a MSIE screen (small icon, no text lables) Netscape 6 chops
>about 1/4" off the image. Issues; I viewed several sites that
>looked different in the version 6 vs. Netscape 3x, 4x, and MSIE,
>it ignored the <center> tag in some pages, so a page that was
>centered ended up left justified. I can't handle some types of
>Java applets, it choked on FPhover.  Yet another bookmarked page
>that worked fine in all my previous browsers froze it solid, the
>only thing that worked was my mouse even the three finger salute
>didn't work... I had to hit the reset button.YIKES!!!
>
>Yes I realize it was a Preview (PR1) release but do your self a
>favour don't waste your time downloading it, oh ya another big
>complaint, they copied MicroSoft with you just download the setup
>package and it copies, and moves the files on-line. I prefer to
>have a single file like the previous version, so if you need to
>reinstall, it will only take a few minutes. Good news is the
>uninstall will only take a few minutes!
>
>
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