On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:34:25AM -0500, Alec wrote: >Is Netscape 6.2 any good? Is it worth installing? Any reason to >prefer it to >Netscape 4.77? How is it different from Mozilla?
Compared with 4.77, Netscape 6.2 is light-years away... with better HTML/XHTML standards compliance (NS 4.77 is crap, as previously posted). But Netscape 6.2 unfortunately still eats more resources (memory) than Netscape 4.77 (Netscape 6.2 crawls when I tried running it on a Pentium 90 with 16MB of RAM. NS 4.77 just did fairly better). Netscape 6.2 has the Mozilla 0.9.4-1 source release (that's what Mozilla says at their website AFAIK) as its base. Almost no differences except for the proprietary extensions and some fixes from Netscape. For more info on the NPL and Mozilla, just visit their website at www.mozilla.org If you're to install to a low-end machine, just go for NS 4.77. But if you've got the processor power and memory to spare... then I'd prefer you go and build from Mozilla, as it's only four milestones away from releasing a 1.0 (and it's source is open, unlike Netscape 6.x which you get only in binary form). There are debs for Mozilla's most current build in sid (in potato r4 you're still stuck with M18-3. That's way too old though usable). If you're to compile it directly, then go ahead, but if you're to build a deb to use it in potato be warned - it won't be easy (it's notoriously more difficult to build debs to compared with the other packages). Paolo Falcone __________________________________ www.edsamail.com
