Clarification

[Ian Rowan <imrowan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Bridleman reminded me:

>On my Windows box I had Netscape 6 loaded for about 
>40 minutes. IMHO it really sucks. It took nearly a 
>minute to load, locked up repeatedly. A terrible 
>piece of software.
>
>On the other hand I like running Mozilla. Sure, it 
>still takes a while to load but it has never crashed 
>on me yet and I've been running the nightly builds 
>for months.

I'd forgotten that "Netscape 6" is not "Mozilla". it's 
Mozilla AFTER AOL gets hold of it and adds a whole bunch
of crap. I would not recommend it to anyone under any 
circumstances. All of my previous comments are relating 
to Mozilla; thank you for reminding me of this important 
distinction! I *loathed* both preview releases of N6, 
which even at the time comparedly badly to the nightly 
builds available at that time. As I said in my previous 
message, I still prefer MS IE (using 5.5 on Win98); Moz
is getting much closer to replacing it, and I can't wait
for the day that I can relegate Windows to a virtual 
machine like the idiot stepchild that it is (just for a
few selected applications that have no Unix equivalents.)

I haven't used konqueror, but have seen many comments
from people who are quite satisfied with it. All I can
say is, like Moz, look at what people are saying, sift
through it to find intelligent commentary, and perhaps
give it a shot. (You can run it without KDE as long as
you have the KDE libraries.)

I know not everyone has more than one computer to test 
software with, but it really helps to have at least a 
second machine around. Not only does it make things a
lot safer for your primary system, but a second machine
can be older and slower than your primary -- so you KNOW
that if something runs acceptably on the test box, it'll
be no problem on your main one.

-dj

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