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Netscape 6.2
lylonius writes: "Netscape today released version 6.2 of its browser based on Mozilla. Downloads for a variety of platforms and languages are available. You can also check out the release notes. This release comes off the Mozilla 0.9.4 branch, and is the third major release from Netscape using Mozilla." Kmeleon also has a release today, if you'd like your web with a little more browsing and little less AOL-promotion.
...however, Mozilla 0.9.5 and the nightlies afterward are already far ahead. Among other things, you get tabbed browsing, the Links toolbar, and (if you download the proper add-on) mouse gesture support.
Very, very cool.
I've been using KMeleon for a while, and become a fan... It pretty quick (not THE fastest) and the footprint is small. It's worth checking out.
There are a few quirks, sure, but for the most part It's replaced IE as my primary browser. I still have to use IE for the occasional page, but we'll see what 0.6 fixes...
You shouldn't.
mozilla@madoka:~$ crontab -l
5 0 * * *
mozilla@madoka:~$ cat
#!/bin/sh
umask 002
cd
rm -rf *
wget http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest
tar -zxf mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz
chown -R mozilla:mozilla mozilla
chmod -R g+w mozilla
Doesn't everyone do this?
Too bad Netscape didn't wait a few more weeks. Mozilla 0.9.5 introduced support for <link>, which rocks. I'd hoped that people would start getting introduced to this sooner rather than later. OTOH, Mozilla's support of <link> still has a few quirks (that's why it's not enabled by default right now) so maybe it's OK to wait until 6.3/0.9.6 or whatever.
If you're using 0.9.5 and haven't enabled <link> yet, do it. It's under your View menu, called "Site Navigation Bar" or something. It's pretty slick when you get to a site that uses <link> tags consistently.
Constitutionally Correct
already in Mozilla for a while.
Add user_pref("dom.disable_open_during_load", true); to your prefs.js (while Netscape is not running) file and presto... no more popups.
Guvf vf abg n EBG zrffntr
The only (IMO) usefule feature is the inclusion of a spell checker (which can be used by Mozilla btw)
Guvf vf abg n EBG zrffntr
I personally stopped using Netscape after a series of bad expierences with the 4.x versions. However, it seem as if Netscape 6.2 on Win32 really isn't so bad. Its very slick looking, renders all webpages I frequent flawlessly and very fast. So far, though I've only been using it for a few minutes, it has proven to be very stable. I will not yet uninstall IE6 from my system, but I'm going to give Netscape another chance.
I miss my Netscape 3.0 Gold Edition Days =)
cd /home/mozilla
/home/mozilla && rm -rf *
rm -rf *
Whoa. You realize your cron starts up in $HOME, and if that `cd` for some reason returns an error...
Try cd
rm will only run if cd returned successfully. In fact, you might want to link all those commands with ampersands; since each one is only relevant if the previous ran without errors.
Liberty in your lifetime
For OSX I've had a great experience with Omniweb. Its fast (load time and render time), super-configurable (its config looks just like the System Prefs panel), and has a sleek UI. The slide-out bookmarks is great! The carbonized IE is TERRIBLE, and netscape x.x seams equally crash-prone. I'm gonna stick with one of the "other" guys.
Because of Netscape 4.x's only partial HTTP 1.1 support, it does become very slow with some HTTP servers, one of them being IIS (but also WebLogic and others).
I haven't noticed any particular problem with Moz, although it can be kind of clunky with pages with lots of form elements.
Whenever I hear the word 'Innovation', I reach for my pistol.
Disables the keyboard input for the Netscape application, not the whole computer!
Also, you missed at least one OSs that Netscape 6 is available - Sun. I think Netscape may have passed more of the responsibility for that build to Sun, but it is still full blown Netscape. Since Sun is the biggest Unix at this point, it makes sense that they'd still be supported
And I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.
Berke Breathed
If you tried K-Meleon 0.1 or 0.2 and thought "gee this would be great if it actually supported cookies and had some configurable options and felt like more than a toy" then check out 0.6. Actually, it's been quite usable for a couple of releases now, and 0.6 seems as good as ever. Yes, I still use IE sometimes, but unlike my repeated attempts to wean myself to Mozilla that inevitably end in me getting sick of the poor UI response times and rendering freezes in Mozilla, I can actually get used to the snappy K-Meleon look and feel.
No, it's not perfect or bugless, and it still isn't quite as pretty or slick looking as IE, but it is nice to see how fast and responsive a Gecko based browser can be when the entire UI isn't getting rendered from XUL, and it's nice to have a real native browser alternative on Windows.
All 'scrapping' aside:
Sidebar tools for AIM and more
Built-in JRE support (no DLL copying/.so linking)
Easy IMAP support for Netscape Email
Spell Checker (by default)
'End-user' features like shopping/my netscape buttons)
Flash included (I believe, possibly RealPlayer too)
It's a nice tidy package for people to use... Mozilla can require some 'fussing about' to get it all to play nicely..
-- You can't idiot-proof anything, because they're always coming out with better idiots.
Netscape has a spell checker
Netscape installs java by default However...
Mozilla does image blocking (I'm addicted to this)
Mozilla allows a security policy for cookies (like IE6)
Mozilla has browser tabs
Mozilla has the "Link" toolbar (which Slashdot now supports as of yesterday, I believe)
That latest mozilla builds also tend to use/leak more memory than the Netscape releases. I don't know why that is, but if you like to have your browser run all day, or you need a spell checker, Netscape's probably a better choice. If you like to play with the latest browser toys, or you can't live without ad blocking, use Mozilla.
ENDUT! HOCH HECH!
Heh. For a kick, try opening this XHTML page in MSIE. Oh, it's a perfectly valid page: heck, it even encourages you to go validate it.
Displays perfectly on Opera, of course. How's it look in Mozilla?
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Grab the spellchecker from Netscape ftp here : win , macos (not X) or linux i686.
Then drag it onto a Mozilla window, you'll get a dialog for installing it.
Some people on #mozillazine tell me that it may not work with Mozilla 0.9.5 though, previous verison shoudl be ok
Guvf vf abg n EBG zrffntr
Well it comes automatically in 6.2 if you want to add it to mozilla you goto the 6.2 download directory goto xpi directory then get spellcheck.xpi it should install automatically. Note: it is only garenteed to work netscape 6.2 infact I just tested it an it seems as though the UI for the spellchecker did not get added. So guess your out of luck.
Increasingly, what oprerating system you have is becomming irelevent:
4 7_STO48570,00.html
Solaris and FreeBSD both run Linux binaries and AIX should soon http://www.exquip.com/software/ibmaix.chtml
and HP-UX is not far behind: http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
If you say so. If you mean biggest as in big iron ... ok. But, I'm pretty sure Apple recently announced how many copies of OS X it has shipped and that it was more than there are copies of Solaris.
could be wrong ... so sue me.
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"Don't anthropomorphize computers. They hate that."
Lynx has had it almost forever. Mosaic had it. Even though I'd been using <link rel="author"> since I started making web pages, I first realized the possibilities when I saw it in iCab. There are a few others. Here are a few good articles about it.
Constitutionally Correct
Here's how I do spellchecking in *ALL* my X11 apps:
http://freefall.homeip.net/stuff/spellcheck/
Enjoy.
I installed it fine on win2000. You should probably look into the disk error, because window's disk check isn't always reliable. I had a dying hard disk that would cause win2000 to reboot randomly, and scandisk didn't whine a bit when I checked for errors. Everything was fine again when I replaced the hard disk.
FWIW Mozilla/NS6 are much faster rendering the HTML stuff, but interface is heavier, so on slow systems it feels slow when just moving the window etc; but when you actually load web-pages it is faster than NS 4.x series.
Score one for my idiot meter today.
jX [ Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. - Einstein ]
Mozilla's faster for me, and to top that off, IE6.0 has some major issues on my installation of Win2k. RIght-click menu takes five seconds to appear. (I quit using IE about 5 minutes after installing 6.0, have been using N6/Mozilla nonstop ever since.
And I like Mozilla better than Konqueror, too.
Though this is a kind of a FAQ, it's not the same program.
Mozilla is the open source code. In the last year or so (Milestone 18 was the big turning point for me, it's been getting better since), it's really been getting good. You can debate some of the bloat (XUL and stuff like that) but it's a damn good browser. Some (a lot?) of that bloat is related to it's in-development status - has some debug code in there that will be removed for final release, not quite optimized.
Every once in a while, Netscape takes a source cut of this and releases it as a Netscape product. It's not exactly the same source, they add things to it (whether it's stuff you would want is subject to some debate). The rendering is the same (Gecko layout engine) but the Netscape product has more bells and whistles, and seems to have a bit more UI polish (some say, I haven't tried it).
If you think about it, Mozilla kind of drives Netscape releases. The Netscape boys take what they think is a decent source cut (the most recent being Mozilla 0.9.5) and ploish it somehwat and release it as Netscape Navigator.
I have to wholeheartedly agree. Nerds can babble on and on about Konqueror and Opera and such, but 99% of web users will never experience these browsers. For most of them, Microsoft is the way to go, unless someone hands them something better.
The problem is, we need some option out there to take marketshare away from Microsoft, if for the sole reason of getting people to stop designing their sites with IE solely in mind (so the pages don't look like crap to the rest of us). There's a pretty interesting comparison on cNet of IE6 and Netscape 6.2.
And if you want to talk about speed, I'd have to say that both Konqueror and Mozilla/Gnome are painfully slow when compared to running moz0.9.5 on Win2K.