Netscape 4.7 vs mozilla for a potato machine ?
I want to upgrade my browser. Should I try mozilla or netscape 4.7 ? Perhaps I would do better if I'll keep my current 4.06 ? I am using potato.
Re: Netscape 4.7 vs mozilla for a potato machine ?
Shaul Karl wrote: I want to upgrade my browser. Should I try mozilla or netscape 4.7 ? Perhaps I would do better if I'll keep my current 4.06 ? I am using potato. There was an article some days ago on LinuxToday or Slashdot (not sure) about the latest version of Mozilla. The gist seemed (to me) to say that Mozilla is starting to look real good, but its still not ready for primetime. Whether you have success or failure with it depends on what websites you want to see. Now NS 4.7 is a different matter. Whether its any good, depends on who you ask. :-) For some it has problems, including crashing, but for others it works like a charm. Personally (Communicator 4.7), its never crashed on me, and seems to be better than previous versions, but YMMV. -- Ed C.
Re: Netscape 4.7 vs mozilla for a potato machine ?
Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to upgrade my browser. Should I try mozilla or netscape 4.7 ? Perhaps I would do better if I'll keep my current 4.06 ? I am using potato. I dislike Netscape more and more with each new version. I am using 4.7 with Potato and find it unstable. If you open another window, and later close one of the windows, netscape just disappears. It usus inordinate amounts of memory and causes my swapfile to grow when I have already 128MB of RAM. I suspect a memory leak. It sometimes freezes, sometimes takes ages before it will let you type anything into the url box etc.. etc.. It really is the one app which lets Linux down and is the app I have to use most. As we say in the UK, it is pants. If 4.06 works OK for you and is relatively stable, keep it. I am waiting *very* impatiently for the Linux version of Opera to be released. OK, I will have to pay for it, but it will worth it to say goodbye to Netscape. BTW, I have tried Navigator and Communicator as Debian packages, as a tar.gz using the Debian installer and without. Pants however I install it. -- Phillip Deackes Debian Linux (Potato)
Re: Netscape 4.7 vs mozilla for a potato machine ?
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 10:43:51AM +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote: I dislike Netscape more and more with each new version. I am using 4.7 with Potato and find it unstable. I consider all libc6 versions of netscape broken. It runs reasonably stable with: - the libc5 version and the old compatibility xlibs (netscape-smotif-47 revision = 14) - libXpm.so.4.6 (i.e. an older one than that usually available) don't know if it still floating around on the net. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpxVjKP57Jaw.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Netscape 4.7 vs mozilla for a potato machine ?
Now NS 4.7 is a different matter. Whether its any good, depends on who you ask. :-) For some it has problems, including crashing, but for others it works like a charm. Personally (Communicator 4.7), its never crashed on me, and seems to be better than previous versions, but YMMV. Personally, Communicator 4.5 used to crash in my system with glibc2, and keeps crashing now after a glibc2.1 upgrade. Will Navigator prove more stable than Communicator (I don't need anything but the browser... when not on Lynx, of course). BTW, it crashes ALWAYS that I try to click on a (guess javascript) form. I dislike Netscape more and more with each new version. I am using 4.7 with Potato and find it unstable. If you open another window, and later close one of the windows, netscape just disappears. It usus inordinate amounts of memory and causes my swapfile to grow when I have already 128MB of RAM. I suspect a memory leak. It sometimes freezes, sometimes takes ages before it will let you type anything into the url box etc.. etc.. It really is the one app which lets Linux down and is the app I have to use most. As we say in the UK, it is pants. Ah! I see 4.7 has the same *FEATURES* than 4.5 !!! Honestly, many times I could do nothing if I didn't have Lynx. I've even tried StarOffice5.1 as a browser! If 4.06 works OK for you and is relatively stable, keep it. I am waiting *very* impatiently for the Linux version of Opera to be released. OK, I will have to pay for it, but it will worth it to say goodbye to Netscape. Is Opera any good? I don't know of it but for the debian packages. -- Horacio Anno MMDCCLII ad Urbe condita [EMAIL PROTECTED] Valencia - ESPAÑA Key fingerprint = F4EE AE5E 2F01 0DB3 62F2 A9F4 AD31 7093 4233 7AE6
