Netscape Better Then IE?

[Shannon]

I'm using Netscape 7 because it is way better. IE you can't skin the browser - Netscape you can. Netscape 7 comes with AIM and ICQ - IE comes with jack all. And what occured to me, when downloading using Netscape, your download speed doesn't drop. Once it can't go no higher - it stays there. IE is up and down and up and down and up and down, etc, making your download take forever.

Netscape is better than IE. There is more you can do in Netscape, but I couldn't be bothered with them all.

 

[GilesGuthrie]

I'm using Netscape 7 because it is way better.

Interesting point of view...

IE you can't skin the browser - Netscape you can.

Who cares? This is a waste of memory and processor time. Also, you can change the toolbar image in IE, and have been able to do so since 5.01.

Netscape 7 comes with AIM and ICQ - IE comes with jack all.

Again, who cares? I don't use AIM, and I don't often use ICQ. Obviously, these are personal issues, but do you want to be forced to take an IM client that you don't use?

And what occured to me, when downloading using Netscape, your download speed doesn't drop. Once it can't go no higher - it stays there. IE is up and down and up and down and up and down, etc, making your download take forever.

With respect, this is nonsense. Download speed is entirely to do with network infrastructure, and nothing to do with the browser. If Netscape is reporting these figures, then you're either lucky on this particular download, or Netscape is lying to you. Download speeds are subject to so many transient effects that it's unlikely you will retain sustained download speeds in large files, unless your end of the pipe is the bottleneck.

Netscape is better than IE. There is more you can do in Netscape, but I couldn't be bothered with them all.

Thus far, I remain unconvinced.

 

[Shannon]

What exactly are the great wonders of IE except for the fact you can type in a web address from a folder and it opens up that website - because Microsoft intergrated Windows and IE together?

 

[GilesGuthrie]

Originally posted by Eddy
What exactly are the great wonders of IE except for the fact you can type in a web address from a folder and it opens up that website - because Microsoft intergrated Windows and IE together?

Well principally it's the integration with the whole system, and the speed of the browser. Plus, given that IE has massive penetration, developers are developing for it, which means you're more likely to get a better browsing experience as you're using the intended browser.

Anyway, my first post wasn't blowing trumpets for IE, more a case of pointing out that the advantages you state for NS7 are either specific to you, or massively unlikely.

 

[Race Idiot]

The only thing is IE6 uses up allot of memory in comparison with IE5. Havent used netscape since version 4, tried 6 a while back realised that it sucked with Vb, so I went back to IE6 again.

I wouldnt mind trying out mozilla (used it for about 2 mins on a linux machine) or opera though.

BTW is Mozilla an opensorce version of netscape?

 

[GilesGuthrie]

Originally posted by Race Idiot
BTW is Mozilla an opensorce version of netscape?

Yes. Mozilla is a name that goes way back, before Netscape really even existed. The first browser was NCSA's Mosaic. NCSA licensed the Mosaic code and called it Mozilla, which is what the first edition of Netscape was based upon.

Then Microsoft got hold of the Mozilla code and, in spite of their 2yr deficit in development, came out with Internet Explorer pretty much immediately. The two products were then developed on an 'arms race' basis until Microsoft came up with the system integration idea. This, together with the fact that Netscape Communicator was buggy bloatware, really killed Netscape, and forced them to move into the server market.

I think IE was reporting itself in the HTTP Headers as "Mozilla" until very recently.

They've probably changed this since Netscape made their Navigator browser open-source, thus returning to the original Mozilla name.

 

[Race Idiot]

Mosaic wow I was hearing about that when I was using my old amiga!

Based on NCSA Mosaic. NCSA Mosaic(TM); was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

I wouldnt mind using another browser, but it would have to work with GTPlanet

 

[GilesGuthrie]

I wrote my first ever web page for Mosaic 0.55!

I'm quite comfortable with IE. I'd like to have a development machine with other browsers on it so that I could test my site on them.

 

[Angel O'Death]

i prefer IE. it's quicker for me, and i love the fullscreen mode. i don't want to be bothered with this crap and that in the browser. I'm using it to browse the the web, not the webbrowser!! (press F11 for fullscreen)

 

[Shannon]

Mozilla is good - Opera would be the best if it didn't keep performing illegal errors. Every time I tried to open it up - illegal operation. And I mean every time.

All browsers should work with GTP. I've used Mozilla, Opera, IE, Netscape and Smart Browser (or Explorer - I forget) with GTP.

 

[kesen]

I THINK IE IS WAY BETTER THEN NETSCAPE

 

[Tom M]

Originally posted by kesen
I THINK IE IS WAY BETTER THEN NETSCAPE

Turn Caps lock off.

 

[Viper_Maniac]

Nutscrape sucks.