This is a bit OT but, my impression so far is underwhelming. There are some
nice additions, such as the cookie viewer, enhancements to Messenger, and
more efficient screen space. Under Win98 I have had it crash on me a couple
of times in the 3 days that I have had it installed. Others who are running
it under NT haven't experienced this. Also, as far as I've found, there
aren't (m)any plugins that work with it yet. On install you can choose to
have a Flash/Shockwave plugin included but, I have yet to find a site that
recognizes this. I understand that this is a preview release which was
motivated by political events, i.e. M$'s problems, but, that doesn't make it
any easier to evaluate. One annoyance I found is that if you don't choose to
include the Messenger product then you can't use 'maito:' links. Also, there
the address bar doesn't include the traditional pull-down capability and the
'Go' menu, which acts as a substitute, blanks out some of it's entries
although you can still click on these blank areas and be taken to the
respective site. I guess this provides a surprise! kind of feel :)
Auto-complete in the location bar doesn't work either :( Lastly, page loads
are a bit slower than IE 5.x. It's enough to be noticeable. On the other
hand, CSS support is much better and I am getting to like the widget set.
It's nice to see something other than the default MS widgets.
I hope they work it all out quickly 'cause IE 5.5 is just around the corner
and I want to see the Netscape browser succeed. After all, our
infrastructure standardized on it several years ago and I'd hate to have to
use a 3 year old browser.
Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen M. Aylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 1:03 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Netscape 6 Eats Microsoft PWS...Story at 11
Damn... and I was soooo looking forward to those killer new useful
features... instant email "chat" and "designer skins".....
Anyway to install it with just the browser and mail client without all the
"high school" AOL-ness?
Steve
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