I’ve been using Netscape for a long time and resisted switching to IE just from inertia, but the last couple of days here at work it has been on strike, refusing to load anything but my home page and Opal’s Java IRC chat page. So I shrugged and opened IE instead. It’s working fine, but damn…it feels like I’m wearing someone else’s pants. Curse you Netscape for laying down on the job and forcing me into this situation!
I’ve had the same problem recently with Netscape, esp. if I’ve opened many browsers simultaneously. Rebooting fixes it but that ain’t the purtiest solution- it may be time for a reinstall.
I know this isn’t very pit-worthy. Bite my shiny metal ass.
Chef, I tend to use both interchangeably (is that a word?), and I see no major difference. If Netscape was not loading pages you may have to change some settings. The only way that IE would work and Netscape not, is if you have different connection settings for the two.
Anyway, screw 'em both, get Linux.
I just wanted to say that this is absolutely the best, funniest thread title I have ever seen.
Chef, try deleting the cache files. Sometimes the index file gets screwed up. In netscape 4.0x they should be in c:\programfiles
etscape\users\default\cache. If you have set up a profile the substitute your profile name for the “default” folder. Please note that this will make pages that have loaded fast (because they were still in the cache) load slower the first time you access them.
I refuse to use IE, but GODDAMNIT Netscape 4.x is the most unstable piece of shit I’ve ever seen. I need to restart it on average 5-10 times a night, many pages absolutely will not load, and many times it gets into a strange mode where until you clean the cache, expire all links, etc. it refuses to connect to anywhere. It also will sometimes leave a “zombie” process in windows that keeps it from re-starting without opening Task Manager and slaying it.
I’m wishing, hoping, and praying that IF Netscape 6 comes out it will be a lot better. I will not use IE, even if it means shaving my body, getting pasty-white skin, large eyes like a lemur, all-white ass-length hair, and becoming a Linux freak.
Not many female Linux users, so I’m sure I’ll be in hot demand too! Oh wait, I forgot I only like GIRLS.
I have always had both Netscape and IE on my computer(s), but just this weekend I had to purge Netscape from my iMac. It just stopped working. STOPPED. I think there was some conflict with another program I installed. Whatever. I jumped through hoops to try to get it to work again, to no avail.
I am using IE 4.5. It’s really not bad, but it doesn’t seem right to not have Netscape. I will eventually try to install an older version of Netscape, and see if that makes any difference.
Damned Netscape!
While we are bashing Netscape, I have an annoying netscape/aol problem. For like the last month, every day a message box has been showing up, asking me to sign-on to Netscape/Aol “instant messenger”. It gives 3 choices “Help, setup & signon”- but no “go the hell away”, I have asked a freind or two, and they said,“just sign up & don’t use it”, but that is no solution. Any ideas how to get this burr out of my ass?
This sounds like the first part of my morning and I am glad to see it isn’t just me… cursing out the computer and re-booting this bitch seemed to help although I am not sure if it was the cursing or the re-boot that did the trick.
I am running Net 4.7 and it does seem to be somwhat twitchy, there have been moments when I have been all too tempted to go to the dark side and fire up IE but then that little voice in my head that sounds like Obi Wan tells me to do otherwise. One should always listen to those voices.
Anthracite, I’ve been using the preview version of Netscape 6 for a while. My verdict: eh. It’s marginally better than 4.x (perhaps because of the reduced functionality), but definitely not as robust as IE 5.
Daniel, there are three main places to look for programs that automatically launch upon Window’s startup. The first is in your startup folder under c:\windows\startmenu\programs\startup. Shortcuts in that folder will be auto loaded upon starting Windows.
The second place to look is in the start: or run: line in the file c:\windows\win.ini. This is the place where older 16bit apps are configured.
The last (and most likely) place is in the Windows Registry.
If you click on Start, Run, then type REGEDIT and click on OK you will open up the windows registry. Under the section HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/run you will find a whole host of CRAP that gets installed by programs whose programmers think that this is the ONLY program you would EVER want to run on your computer.
Be Very Careful in the registry, you can screw up your computer in a heartbeat.
I left the house this morning without my tinfoil hat, and the satellite told me that Bill Gates engineered something into Windows that sabotages Netscape. That could be the problem.
Guys, I gave in a while back. Its time to finally accept that Netscape is flat out useless. I gave up during one of its many tempermental phases. Now I’ve begun doing alot of developing, and use both browsers and Netscape is the only one I’m constantly trying to repair little bugs for. Its just a BAD product. I hate IE too, but better is better. An its the American way to use the better product, regardless of Gatesism.
The beta version of Netscape 6 is a festering pile of dung. And what the hell happened to Netscape 5 anyway? Are they skipping 5 to make dumb people think they’re not playing catch-up with MS and IE 5? “Ours is version 6 and theirs is only version 5, so ours must be better.” I had a feeling their browser would turn brown and start to smell and attract flies as soon as AOL bought them. AOL seems to have that effect on things…
It seems Netscape is more crash-prone with every new release. The biggest problem I have with the latest “stable” version is that at least once or twice a night, Netscape will freak out and not let me click links. A left click does jack squat. You can right click and open the links in new windows, but that’s just a pain in the ass. A reboot solves this problem but it always comes back eventually.
I find myself using IE more and more these days…
I just opened Nutscrape and discovered that ALL my bookmarks… even the pre-loaded ones that I never use - are GONE. And since I was using that bookmark file as my home page in IE, I couldn’t get anywhere there either without actually typing in the URL - and I don’t HAVE the URLs for a lot of my bookmarks. Can someone please help?
GOD-DAMN GOAT-SQUICKING NUTSCRAPE FELCH-A-GATOR!!!
Chef, go to Start, Programs, Netscape Navigator, and User Profile manager. It’s possible that NutScrape we launched under a different profile (and with a different bookmark file. If That’s no help, try a file search on the C: drive and look for bookmark.htm. If more than one comes back, the one with the larget file size is probably the one you want. In Netscape, click on bookmarks, edit bookmarks, file and import. Then select the abovementioned file. Hope this helps.
Fuck Linux and fuck Netscape! Go download IE 5.5!
I like Netscape but since AOHELL got ahold of it, its sucking more and more… Damn AOL, they take a perfectly good program and screw it up. I think they must have coders espically for the job. GayOL is taking over the WORLD!!! Stop them… before its too late!
I finally got fed up with the fact that my computer was so slow and sucky. I couldn’t even attempt chat or interactive games most places, it was so slow.
And, strangely, some of my favorite sites would simply stop working. I would get an error that the address couldn’t be found, or information was sent that the server couldn’t understand, or some such.
This weekend, this happened to the SDMB. Immediately going into a panic, I called my computer tech geek friend. (Everybody should have one.) He suggested I shit-can my browser (Netscape Communicator 4.7) and replace it with IE.
I did, downloading 5.5.
Everything works fine now. Zips along better than it has at any time in recent months.
It does make me mad at Netscape. I don’t like using IE, because I like to root for the underdog, and I want to do my part to slow down Bill Gates’ steady march to world domination.
(Don’t believe it’s coming? Look at that little Windows-and-earth thing in the upper right hand corner on 5.5. Kind of chills me.)
The ‘Windows-and-Earth thing’? Well, first of all, it’s a browser for the WORLD wide web…