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Thread ID: 42091 2004-01-31 20:18:00 Alternatives to IE Chris Randal (521) Press F1
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211899 2004-02-03 22:32:00 Yeah, it was a good browser in its day, but its been handed over and superceeded by Mozilla.

I must say that Netscapes last release was probably its finest :-)

The 6.x series put a lot of people off Netscape though :-(
Chilling_Silently (228)
211900 2004-02-03 22:36:00 H-Hmmm Netscape uses Mozilla as it's basis Chill ;) Think of it as Mozilla with a lot of extra bits added to it. mark.p (383)
211901 2004-02-03 22:57:00 I'd thought it was the other way round? That Netscape gave its source code away and that brand then became known as Mozilla? Chilling_Silently (228)
211902 2004-02-03 23:00:00 Hey Jaguar

You arn't the mod "Jaguar" from elitelinux.com by any chance...?

Forrest44.
forrest44 (754)
211903 2004-02-03 23:12:00 > I'd thought it was the other way round? That Netscape
> gave its source code away and that brand then
> became known as Mozilla?



That was my understanding as well,i was of the belief that netscape is dead.
metla (154)
211904 2004-02-04 00:09:00 i remember reading abit about the mozilla / netscape( owned by aol) relationship here (vlad.neosurge.net)

otherwise, a few browsers (for pc) which are as foolproof as IE include:

Mozilla 1.6 (www.mozilla.org) (12MB, 'web suite')
Firebird 0.6 (www.mozilla.org) (6MB)
Opera 7.23 (www.opera.com) (3.2MB)
MyIE2 (www.myie2.com) (3.3MB)

grtz sal.
flx
sal (67)
211905 2004-02-04 00:23:00 > > I'd thought it was the other way round? That
> Netscape
> > gave its source code away and that brand
> then
> > became known as Mozilla?
>
>
>
> That was my understanding as well,i was of the
> belief that netscape is dead.

Yes NS did release the code. Mozilla is only one variation of the underlying code (Gecko anyone?-www.asu.edu) T

No it is not dead- channels.netscape.com

There is even an OS2 version of the latest Netscape as well as Mozilla and Firebird
mark.p (383)
211906 2004-02-04 00:33:00 about MyIE2, I hadn't used it before recommending it (lol) but after 5 minutes of using it, I highly recommend it already, 3 minutes of tweaking to get the browser to personal taste, and it makes for a great browser, I might be wrong, but it looks like it runs as a 'wrapper' for IE, but its a great 'wrapper' nonetheless.

It's skinnable, has plugins, seems pretty quick, uses tabs, and soo far I've found it has a nifty feature called 'Simple Collector', a handy notepad window of sorts. All this in the 'Lite' version, heh

(I did notice a 'Donate' window appear on second start-up, but MyIE2 is freeware, I'm still having a look around the menus within...another little annoyance, on opening, this UCMore thingy wanted to install, but I just removed it from the top menu bars via Right-click > Unselect UCMore...)

At less than a MB, I reckon its worth a look,

grtz sal.
flx

</plug> ]:)
sal (67)
211907 2004-02-04 02:07:00 It is still using IE with all the associated problems with security. Jim B (153)
211908 2004-02-04 02:10:00 > It is still using IE with all the associated problems
> with security.

oh
sal (67)
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