Anyone running Netscape 6.1? What's your opinion?

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Tue Aug 21, 2001 11:34 am

I installed it in my wife's system for some testing but haven't had much time to play yet.

Does seem to load pages quicker than IE but it also seems to take an eternity to load. Ofcourse her system has a P2-400 and a slower UDMA33 drive.

Jim Z · Post by **Jim Z** » Tue Aug 21, 2001 2:49 pm

Trust me, it loads a hell of a lot faster than 6.0 did. I've been using 6.1 since it was released, and I don't have any real complaints yet. It has a little ways to go before it can match the speed of IE.

Oh, and it doesn't like WinXP RC1. It caused a couple of unexpected reboots for me.

DocSilly · Post by **DocSilly** » Tue Aug 21, 2001 4:11 pm

I'm using Mozilla 0.9.3 , it's the same as Netscape 6.1 minus integrated AOHell crap. Oh, Netscape 6.1 is still based on Mozilla 0.9.2, although they say they included some 0.9.3 fixes. Netscape 6.0 was the worst they could do, built on an old Mozilla built compared to what Mozilla was available at that time ...

Netscape 6.1 should include the feature QUICK LAUNCH, can be enabled under PREFERENCES/ADVANCED. All it does is loading Netscape(Mozilla) during bootup into the background, comparable to what MS does for IE (rough comparison).

Mozilla 0.9.3 is my current main browser, I rarely use IE for the very few pages that won't load correctly or at all in Mozilla.

So, no, I'm not using Netscape 6.1 but I'm surfing with Mozilla 0.9.3 and I'm happy with it. Mozilla 1.0 should finally arrive later this year ... only thing I miss from Netscape 4.x is the bookmark-handling ... now it's IE-like ...

kitner · Post by **kitner** » Tue Aug 21, 2001 10:21 pm

Hey Doc,

Where do I get a copy of Mozilla?

Jim Z · Post by **Jim Z** » Tue Aug 21, 2001 11:10 pm

http://www.mozilla.org

Executioner · Post by **Executioner** » Tue Aug 21, 2001 11:41 pm

How do you know which one (Mazilla) to download? I'm running Win98. The download section was a little confusing.

DocSilly · Post by **DocSilly** » Wed Aug 22, 2001 6:01 pm

Just click on the 0.9.3 WINDOWS link on the frontpage, or this one:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/rele ... taller.exe

It's the complete installation ... around 9 megs ... the other Windows version is a downloader like IE (220KB) or the complete as a ZIP-file. Just use the FULL INSTALLER EXE (linked above).

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Thu Aug 23, 2001 12:06 am

Well after running Netscape 6.1 on my wife's system for an hour to try it out, I closed it and tried to put her computer in sleep mode and it wouldn't. Checked the task manager and sure enough, Netscape was still running in the background and wasn't responding.

Been there, done that before.

Mikendi · Post by **Mikendi** » Sun Aug 26, 2001 2:40 pm

I didn't like the Tab thing on the side, and the lack of auto scroll. Never could get it to work even with latest mouse drivers from MS which don't have single click. I didn't like its unresponsiveness and always had to close it from the tack manager. I uninstalled it and am sticking with 4.7+ Features I'm used to and I don't have to re-learn what I don't have 100% grasp on anyway. I may try the new Mozilla.