Netscape 6.. ohmygod...

[Joseph T. Tannenbaum]

It caused mine to do a total crash....I deleted it and reinstalled
4.76..

Joe

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> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Jason
> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 2:48 PM
> To: PLUG Discussion
> Subject: Netscape 6.. ohmygod...
> 
> 
> 
> Has anyone ecer experienced a properly working Netscape 6??
> 
> Please tell me its not this bad. 
> 
> It was incapable of even loading .gif images properly - showing only
> the lefthand side of one on the SIMPLEST of web pages - no forms,
> tables - just HTML. 
> 
> When I'd click on a link, sometimes it would go where it ought to,
> sometimes I went to a totally arbitrary URL based on a random chunk of
> text in the HTML somewhere totally else. 
> 
> Sometimes the URL in the window, and the one it requested from my
> localhost server were different, typically it would repeat a
> subdirectory name or two. Click reload though, and it would load the
> right page. 
> 
> I would recommend ANY Microsoft OS with ANY Microsoft browser before
> what I have just seen in Netscape 6 under Linux.
> 
> Yet, it doesnt segfault. Why? Is it due to the highly trained idiots
> at America Online that we have such a stable yet buggy piece of
> software here? I cannot imagine how these horrid problems can occur in
> software that wont simply die, unles they ARE NOT BY ACCIDENT. AOL has
> been in bed with MS for quite some time now.
> 
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