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What's so bad about Netscape?

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purplecow

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I just downloaded Netscape 6. Everyone around here keeps saying how crappy Netscape is and stuff. I always thought it was alright, and so far this version seems pretty cool. The blue skin seems kind of toyish, but I don't mind it. I'll probably almost definitely stick to IE5+, but I don't think this browser [Netscape] deserves any bashing.
 
Just rebooted (downloaded IE and NS 6 at the same time). Now I'm using IE6. Of course I prefer this over both (IE5 and NS6). I don't think Netscape is horrible though. It doesn't display things QUITE as nicely, IMO.

I'm using Win2K and I noticed one thing that I like with IE6. The first time you open it, there isn't a small lag after you press enter to a site. With IE5 this happened. Lke the first time I opened IE, it would lag after pressing enter to go to a site, but after that it was fine .. it was like it had to cache that small thing or something. Now it's gone and I like it that way. 🙂
 
I hated IE6, went back to 5. What's with that damn menu that pops up over pictures? Also, it crashed all the time.
 
Netscape 6 is slower, and feels alot mor bloated. It is also a pain in the ass for webmasters to have to cater to Netscapes lack of support for certain code. Many times I have to go through sites and make a word in the code begin with a initial caps, so that netscape would recognise the code, and this is an extremely small part of the issue.
 
Netscape's "View Source" opened it that Netscape viewer instead of Notepad or WordPad. When the Netscape window is resized, it refreshes the site. But it tends to do it incorrectly, and displays it's layers in odd places. When you make a website, Netscape doesn't follow implied table sizes. You can't reposition the menus/toolbars. Under Linux Netscape, I can't view pages that render fine under Windows Netscape.

I don't know if these things are fixed with Netscape 6, but I prefer IE5 to Netscape 4.7. Netscape's second though. I heard that AIM incorporated with NS6 - I rather it not.

Mozilla is much slower than Netscape - at least when it loads my school webmail.
Konquerer takes forever to load my school webmail - actually JavaScript in general.
Opera crashes when it loads my school webmail. Otherwise, it's good.
Netscape and IE do a good job on my webmail.
 
1) It's slow
2) It's a bitch to design web pages for
3) It's bloated
4) It doesn't display things correctly
5) It resizes every time you chage window size
6) It doesn't support some DHTML
7) No one uses it
 
netscape is fustrating!!!!... it freezes, crashes my system, or not even load up at times... I'll take MSIE anyday.
 
I find that it sucks because of the way it interprets page code. Pages coded that work in IE most of the time don't work or look as well in Netscape. By this I mean that some images may have the correct alignment in IE, but in Netscape, they are off by a few pixels, which can completely mess everything up.
 
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