# How do you like Netscape 6?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-netscape-6/55412>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 22, 2001, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-netscape-6/55412 "2001-02-22T03:00:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2001, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-netscape-6/55412/21 "2001-02-24T06:21:51Z")

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> \*Originally posted by GuanoLad \*  
> \*\*For something trying to be a better alternative to Microsoft, they have a lot to learn about being user-friendly. They’ve lost the plot at Netscape, I reckon.  
> \*\*

They’ve gained an AOL, more likely.

A large part of the problem seems to be that rather than the Netscape/AOL merger improving AOL’s suckfest of a browser, AOL’s suckfest of a browser dragged Netscape down to its level. From the admittedly short amount of time I had it installed, I got the impression that it was intended to be modular, aiming for “all things for all people” with clock, calendar, datebook, e-book reader, etc. add-ons in the works. In other words, it was going AOL.

Sad to see what used to be a good piece of software going flush down the tubes.

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**Author:** ![Whammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2001, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-like-netscape-6/55412/22 "2001-02-24T21:36:01Z")

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DL’d it 3 times THREE! On cable modem, installed clean each time and it STILL had curruption and fucked up areas… mostly in the email.

And its like a vampire on the system. Take a picture with my webcam or just save a picture on the hard drive and it suddenly has a NETSCAPE 6 ICON when Netscape 6 wasn’t even open or being used! Just to VIEW THE PICTURE? N6 has to open and it has to be viewed through it! I uninstalled the piece of shit and could no longer view the pictures I saved while it was on my system.

Fuck that shit… its IE for me from now on.

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