My initial download was very qick and pleasantly surprising. I selected the
Java vm download, too. The install was fine. Be warned that while
downloading you cannot get your desktop back.
I'm not really that fond of the design. Too many knobs and buttons and
"stuff" for me.
It has crashed several times with me but it only kills itself so far - which
is much better behaved than IE was early on. (NT4 Wokrstation, PIII 500,
256Mb, ISDN)
There are more than one JavaScript problems. Most serious I've found is
that it cannot detect the values of multiple checkboxes or radio buttons
which is why it can't delete messages on the web interface. You can't
really make pages with multiple checkbox values work correctly.
I timed a few large page downloads between it and IE5. In one large page
case IE5 was about 10% faster but I think it may have just been network
latencies. Overall I think they seem about the same. I notice the little
timer reports done before the page is done at least on my system. I like
the timer.
Finally the source view is reasonable.
I still don't like how NN makes those holes for images and then paints them
in - gives me the impression of jumpiness.
On my system when I start the browser I get a Java console which I have had
no success in stopping. I think it has something to do with the new Java VM
more than the browser. Still I don't like it but I can't make it go away so
far.
There is no autocomplete and the history navigation in the url window isn't
there.
The login/password complete box is a real pain and makes the page elongate
to the bottom. You can say "never" but it ignores it and pops up on every
subsequent load. I turned it off finally.
I found one example where it renders tables differently - makes the rows
really tall where they should be really narrow. Don't know why. Different
than IE5 or NN4.x.
Other than that though it seems to be very close to IE5 on page output.
I agree with CNET's analysis: "it isn't soup yet."
However, the actual release is supposed to be in October so I suspect most
of these things will be fixed by then and it is definitely an improvement
over the 4.x's since it really does seem to handle css and other things much
more the same as IE.
Still not as forgiving as IE on missing end tags.
I don't know that I would have called it a 6 in terms of functionality. I
honestly can't tell that the rendering engine is that much improved but
maybe I just haven't used it enough yet.
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Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Netscape 6
My experience so far, on several different test machines (Mac OS, Win95,
Win98) is that the current beta of Netscape 6 is somewhat unstable. Not
surprisingly, the instability increases on any machine - Mac or PC - that
has a Microsoft Java runtime engine or "virtual machine" installed.
The browser has an interesting look, and seems to load and draw pages
faster, but I'm recommending to my customers that they not use it until the
final version has been released. Too many bugs in the beta, IMHO.
Anyone else have any thoughts on the subject?
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