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NETSCAPE BROWSERS The last good version I had was NS4.72. I jumped to NS6 and had such a nightmare it took me two evenings to restore my old NS4.72 back. Then along comes NS7. I figured they had to have fixed all the crap NS6 had contained and I was pleasantly surprised to see how nice NS7 operated. I immediately notified my friends what a great job Netscape had done bringing version 7 online - OOPS was I wrong! Netscape 7 has to be the worst ever. To start JavaScripts do not work and when they do they do not run properly. Several normal HTML tags seem to be ignored and I'm not referring to tags that have been eliminated. Also colors do not display as they should and we're talking a simple black background with off white lettering. Major disaster of black with black letters! I suppose I am quite thick as it took me a good while to start putting things together. I thought it was my computer or my connection or my coding. Then it became obvious that EI was bringing everything up and even the old NS4.72 was doing a good job for what it was capable of handling. One wonders who is running NetScape. Little ole Opera is getting better than NetScape! NetScape 8 is out and while it seems stable enough it is still not what the old NetScape was. Its full of new features and stuff but I feel it still SUCKS! Pity the poor AOL users who have always had problems. Just as MicroSoft sets their InterNet Explorer to suit them, AOL is setting NetScape to suit them. It has always amazed me why anyone would pay $20 a month for Internet access and a captive environment (ya I know you can surf freely but are you REALLY FREE!?) With AOL's purchase of NetScape I suppose another good thing goes down the drain. New on the market is FireFox based on Mozilla (as was Netscape before 8) It is user friendly and easy to use. For a new Browser it is holding its own and appears to run everything I create without loosing anything or locking up. It is 3W compliant and as long as your coding is compliant it works great. It doesn't seem to have all of the IE capabilities as far as reading and accomplishing off side coding but still it is dependable and strong. So now all of my WebPages will be directed to IE (ugh!) and my secondary Browser FireFox. We'll see what the future holds.
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Ever
since I started running around the Internet I
run with Netscape. Probably the main reason was
because I really don't care for Microsoft and
their dominating way of shoving their world down
your throat. I have staunchly supported Netscape
amid a room full of raving IE users even despite
my own personal research showing me that IE was
most definitely the primary browser of the majority
of people visiting my Sites.