Is there anyone of this forum that runs windows 98 and Netscape and can honestly say they have no trouble them at all? Come on. If you are really out there, fess up! What are you running and what are they paying you to lie like this?
I am currently running Netscape 4.06 under Windows 98.I started using Navigator so my hubby and kids could have IE to themselves.I put all their game pages etc. in IE’s Favorites and let them have at it.
I can honestly say that I’ve had very few problems with Netscape.Much fewer than with IE.If we use IE for very long we inevitably get a Kernal 32 error.This also seems to happen if more than two windows get opened.I am yet to have this happen with Netscape.
I HAVE to use Netscape sometimes, even though I hate it.
I got the latest IE Beta version, and then discovered my bank doesn’t allow beta versions because of the risk of hacking. And since it’s a beta, it can’t be completely uninstalled yet. I guess they code that last.
The worst part of Netscape is all the screen space lost with huge window headers. Also, my hundreds of nested favorites are not recognized. And it doesn’t have auto-complete, and it won’t work with my e-mailer, and I just hate it for being so ugly.
I have used Netscape for 4 years.
I am currently running Windoze 98 SE and Netscape 4.7 with
absolutely no problems. I will never use IE. If Netscape goes belly-up, I’ll switch to Opera.
BTW, I do web design, and I have more than a passing knowledge of both browsers. IE is less configurable, less compliant with HTML standards, pushier, and has more security problems than Netscape. Netscape isn’t perfect in any of these regards, but it’s a good sight better.
On a slightly different note: The increasing number of new programs that will only update through IE piss me off.
I use IE on Windows, because it was designed to run well on Windows. Netscape runs perfectly well for me on Linux though, better than IE on Windows.
Well then that is just sad. It really is.
I’m resigned to live with the Internet Explorer Unexplained Crash of the Day. I use Netscape quite often (University’s personel system is Netscape specific.) and it doesn’t crash. And there’s no way an e-mail virus is coming through these doors.
(Well, I have my security set up on Outlook Express so that it can’t run those viruses anyway, but that has to be one of MS’s more moronic design flaws.)
of course it’s sad, it’s windows. Character descriptions of windows aside, i’ve never had a problem with it crashing or freezing. Much of that has to do with what else is running on your machine, at what speeds, and with how much ram. Doesn’t make it right, but that’s the way it is.
I test internet-based software for a living. In my job, we have to test, test, and fucking test again on all combinations of browsers/OS.
Nutscrape (thanks, ChefTroy) 4.6 and 4.7 running in conjunction with Win98 is without a doubt the most problematic combination that you can come up with out of any browser/OS that includes anything since NS4.08 and IE 4 with Win95, Win98, or Win2K.
Seems to me that the most problems come when you have Java and/or JavaScript enabled on your browser settings. If you continually have trouble, and don’t use your PC for anything that absolutely REQUIRES you to have Java turned on, then disable this. (EditPreferencesThen uncheck Java and JavaScript). Yes, I know that this will disable some of the functionality of some sites, but unless you really need it, it should drastically reduce your problems.
Well, I composed in Word and pasted here, and I guess the SD doesn’t like the way that MS Word creates arrows.
“EditPreferencesThen uncheck Java and JavaScript”
shoud read:
“Edit–>Preferences–>advanced; Then uncheck Java and JavaScript”
I use both of them, sometimes both at the same time. Netscape 4.7 & IE 5.01
Netscape 6.0PR is out. You can load it & still keep 4.0 versions. Heh, those people at netscape did not put an uninstaller in for it so you have to kind of do it yourself with their information.
IE5.5? Doesn’t have much new in it.
I’ve tooled with NS6 and the build I have is a total hunk of shit. It can’t yet correctly recognize a proxy server, so it is pretty useless to me. Maybe they’ve fixed this in a more recent build.
I used to run Netscape 4.6 on Windows 98 SE, and occasionally there would be problems like an illegal operation here and there, or that damn quality feedback thing that keeps popping up for every error… but for the most part, it was pretty stable.
I now run Netscape 4.72 on Windows Millennium (the OEM release), and it seems to fare better than 4.6 did on Windows 98. It still has its share of errors, but not as nearly as much.
I’m running Netscape 4.7 on Win98 and it’s pretty good. I hate IE - it feels clunky to me after using Netscape for so long. This version does have the annoying habit of not always recognizing sites that I open in a new window , but overall it’s okay.
–tygre, who fondly remembers the days of lynx - anyone else?
I absolutely cannot use IE. It’s bars are too ugly and hugemous (yes it’s a word, shut up) and dumb looking. Netscape is marginally better, but takes major tweaking to look how I want it.
If I have multiple windows open, upwards of three or four, it suddenly won’t let me click links. I have to C&P them.
Sometimes, randomly, it just stops working, or will hang a load, and I’ll have to close it and re-open. You have to be careful, though, because when it has THIS problem, you can’t get rid of it just by closing all the windows, you have to ctrl alt del to close it, or else re-opening it will just cause the same problem again.
But I refuse to use IE. It’s too damn ugly.
–Tim