Netscape 6.. ohmygod...

[George Toft]

I used it for about a month, just to give a go, and it fairly well 
sucked.  Bank of America's web site won't work with it, and the mail
flaked out and I lost 276 messages.

George


Brian Cluff wrote:
> 
> I think that you got the version that came with a vial of crack...   I've
> never had any problems with it other than a bit of crashing with older
> versions
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> 
> > 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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