Well, we wanted to use Netscape because we also have a fair number of
Windows and Solaris systems and it was something we could standardize as
a browser, mail agent, and address book for all of our users. Also it
was a likely candidate to be ported to NC and X-Terminals (for instance,
Neowares support Netscape natively as well). Also, it's relatively easy
to use for all skill levels which we have a number of users that cannot
deal with complex interfaces.
Yes, it has a lot of bugs (including the CPU and memory hogging) but we
find it to be a very nice product. I agree though it's looking dubious
that it's supported and perhaps Mozilla is the answer.
Thanks for the response,
- Matt
Alex Kanavin wrote:
>
> On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Matt Fahrner wrote:
>
> > Any help would be appreciated...
>
> I think that Netscape engineers don't work on 4.x series anymore. They
> only fix security bugs and occasionally introduce so-called 'features'
> ordered by AOL management.
>
> Did you try to look at the alternative browsers such as Konqueror? You
> certainly can get in contact with its developers directly. By the way,
> could you tell what your issues with Netscape are? If you mean freezes /
> 100% CPU load on some pages during resolve, then nobody can help with this
> I'm afraid. Not even Netscape engineers. That's perhaps the only thing
> that I can't stand in Linux. Therefore I use lynx whenever possible. And
> for everything else found in Communicator there are better - and
> opensource - alternatives. (mutt/Pine for mail, tin/Gnus for news, and I'm
> sure it's possible to find replacements for Collabra/Composer, though I
> doubt anyone uses them at all).
>
> --
> Alexander
>
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