IME, Firefox is much more compatible with sites that are coded with IE
in mind. AOL is no longer developing the Netscape product, so it is a
dead end anyway.
Earl
Moose wrote:
>Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
>
>
>>Ah well. Norton SystemWorks 2001 is gone... I think. And AVG is
>>running. It's also time to replace Netscape 7.1 with Firefox.
>>
>>
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>>
>So I"m curious, why replace Netscape with Firefox? I heard all this
>noise about Firefox and installed it. I can't see that it does anything
>Netscape doesn't and I can't see that it is any faster at anything I
>tried than Netscape. They are VERY similar, which makes sense, as they
>have the same roots.
>
>Firefox did somehow steal my cache so that typing the start of a URL in
>Firefox brought up prior complete URLs to choose from that had been
>originally accessed in Netscape and they disappeared from Netscape.
>Since that meant I couldn't conveniently use both for a while, I just
>went back to what was working fine for me. I can see switching from IE
>to either one, but no reason to switch from one to the other. I didn't
>try their mail app. I'm quite happy with Netscape mail and didn't want
>to do a bunch of backing up before trying it.
>
>Moose
>
>
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