Netscape 7

Roy Thomson · Post by **Roy Thomson** » 28 Sep 2002 9:33 am

I am being prompted to download Netscape 7.
How many have it and how do you like it?

I still use Net.4.7.

When I was prompted to download Net 6 some months ago I did and had to deinstall as it made my system very sluggish. That's why I am
hesitant about Net 7.

Would appreciate comments.

Roy

Jimmy Lewis · Post by **Jimmy Lewis** » 28 Sep 2002 4:11 pm

Roy I am using Netscape 7 and haven't had any problems with it so far. It hasn't slowed my system down any but of course I am running 512 megs of RAM. You have the option aof keeping Netscape 4.7 thus you won't loose any of your current bookmarks etc. in Netscape 4.7

Ken Lang · Post by **Ken Lang** » 28 Sep 2002 4:24 pm

I downloaded Net 7. Don't like it. Instead of a full screen of bookmarks, you have to scroll thru them. Plus a lot of AOL BS that I am not interested in.

It's not better, it's more busy.

I haven't deleted it as yet in case I find time to explore it and change my opinion. I just logged off and went back to my old Netscape.

Colin Goss · Post by **Colin Goss** » 29 Sep 2002 5:56 am

I loaded Netscape 6 and was very disappointed, so went back to 4.9. Some secure sites wouldn't allow 6 and insisted on 4.7+. So with some trepidation I loaded 7 and dumped 6. What a joy! I have had no shut down problems, and the idea of tabs on the web brower is great, I can set up a book mark for a group of tabs, for example I can open simultaneously with one button push all the topics on the forum that I am interested in. I am very happy with Netscape 7, particularly as those secure sites that wouldn't accept 6 work perfectly with 7.

Jeff Agnew · Post by **Jeff Agnew** » 29 Sep 2002 2:34 pm

Forget Netscape 7. It's even more full of AOL bloat than was Netscape 6. But if you really like Netscape, install Mozilla 1.0.1 instead of NS 7. It uses the same rendering engine, has the same tabbed interface, and none of the mandatory AOL junk.

Mozilla is the code base for Netscape, but it's open source development instead of commercial software.

Don Walters · Post by **Don Walters** » 30 Sep 2002 6:07 am

I use Mozilla and like it a lot. get it at

mozilla.org

Mark Ardito · Post by **Mark Ardito** » 30 Sep 2002 6:14 am

I never did like Netscape. I really just keep it around to test out webpages I am building on it. It tends to do things different than other browsers.

Mark

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Robert Todd · Post by **Robert Todd** » 1 Oct 2002 11:58 am

I also switched to Mozilla, FWIW this is Netscape's open source project, and a very nice browser.

Jeff Evans · Post by **Jeff Evans** » 3 Oct 2002 3:33 pm

Can you import your Bookmarks to Mozilla?

Jeff Agnew · Post by **Jeff Agnew** » 4 Oct 2002 6:13 am

<SMALL>Can you import your Bookmarks to Mozilla?</SMALL>

Yes.

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 4 Oct 2002 5:05 pm

If what you have (4.07) is working, I see no need or reason to change. Shucks, I'm still using Windows98, and couldn't be happier...you see, all my old software still works!

My friends that went to ME and XP are still cussing the day they upgraded.