From: Ann Sanfedele
Jeffery Johnson wrote:
>I believe that Netscape for the most part has become obsolete as it is no
>longer being updated from what I have gathered. Interesting though that it
>will not come up in Firefox without having to copy and paste it in.
>
>Jeffery
>
Jeffrey - it would come up in Firefox if I were not using old netscape
commuicator email
which I prefer --- If I read my mail on the web, before downloading it
, then all I'd have to do is click.
The old gang here knows I have Netscape 7.0 and use plain text only for
email... it is the perfect tool
for me to keep track of things and sort and is especially safe as I
never leave email on my web ISP.
In short, it is nothing to do with Firefox..
I really would recommend taking a look at Mozilla Thunderbird as an
email client to replace Netscape. I don't think Netscape 7.0 has had a
security update since 2003. Certainly not since 2008 when AOL pulled the
plug on Netscape.
Essentially Mozilla took the old Netscape program and split it into
separate applications; Firefox for browsing the web & Thunderbird for
email. I think Thunderbird should give you the "look & feel" of the old
Netscape email client, but with the benefit of security updates.
Thunderbird duplicates the look, feel & function of the email portion of
the old Netscape program. I was running Netscape 7.2 on this computer in
2007 when I decided to give Firefox/Thunderbird a try on my new Toshiba
laptop. That's when I quit using this computer for a while.
When I put this computer back into operation in January of this year it
still had Netscape 7.2 set up on it. Switching over to
Firefox/Thunderbird was fairly easy.
The only problem I ran into was I made the mistake of running Windows
add/remove programs to uninstall Netscape before installing
Firefox/Thunderbird, which slightly complicated importing bookmarks &
address books. Fortunately I had not yet emptied the trash folder & the
installers were able to retrieve my bookmarks & address books from there.
From recent personal experience, I can say it's not any more difficult
to set up Thunderbird to send only plain text email than it was to
figure out how to make Netscape do so.
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