([<> On 7 Jan 2001, some witty mortal wrote: <>]) (From experience using Mozilla from M16 -> latest nightly builds).
> nice: > 1. auto URL completion (big whoop). URL completion is actually a "big whoop" as it A) saves a lot of time; B) Looking through the History to find that really wierd URL that you forgot to write down; C) allows you to go back to regularly visited sites easily without having to bookmark them :o) > 2. renders CSS, even if you turn javascript off (NICE!!!!) I have just been testing Mozilla, Opera 5.01, and IE5 on Win98, and I have to say, Mozilla seems to have the best support for CSS2 that I can find. I might say it handles a few CSS2 items differently than Opera 5.01 does (both claim to be great with CSS), but still ten miles ahead of IE5 ;o) > 3. it crashes less from what i've seen. Yeah, I've had it crash just clicking on links D: But I can live with it. The end product is what I'm worried about, not the beta versions. > bad: > 1. they took away the "bookmark button". How do you mean they took away the bookmark button ? My version of Mozilla has a nice little bookmarks menu that lets me organise my bookmarks quite nicely. And there is also the option to display the "bookmarks" button in the preferences. It comes up on the personal taskbar, next to the home button. They took it off the toolbar, leaving more room to see the url. > 2. kerberos is completely broken (i can't access my school grades with > ns6). Is this security ? I'm not exactly sure what kerberos is, but the PSM module for Mozilla works for me. > 3. very, very, very slow to load. even slower than previous NS > incarnations True, it loads fairly slowly. But that's also getting slightly better with each build. I would guess there's some debugging work going on in the background of these builds. 4. more junk. True. I don't really see the point of having AIM in the browser. But then, Opera 5.01 just implemented ICQ support into their browser, so I guess "convergence" of web applications is what they're after (browser + mail + news + IRC chat + messager program = most of what the young ppl seem to do besides play games) I chose not to install the mail/news and chat, but I believe NS6 forces the install of the messaging program. More reason to stick with Mozilla builds ;o) > 5. assigning helper applications is now very inconvenient > i'd recommend against netscape 6. i love CSS, so it's almost worth it > for me. i'm thinking of going back though. Well, I think your experiences have been shared by a great many people since the first releases of NS6. But I also think a lot of people seem to misunderstand how the NS6 builds work. The NS6 builds are entirely -old- code. M18 fixes most of the bugs that would have been in the NS6 public release. The builds I use (nightly builds I get every few days) are getting quite good. They render some pages faster than IE5 and Opera do, and also have the best standards support. I think everyone has to get over the perception of the NS6 builds being the be-all-and-end-all of Netscape browsers. Mozilla builds are way ahead of NS6, and dont have the extra "crap" like AIM messaging forced on you. I would almost recommend boycoutting NS6 releases in favour of the Mozilla releases ;o) Bit of a rant. Please take with a few grains of salt. I know NS6 is bad, but that's because people are looking at the Mozilla project the wrong way around IMO. Ard Righ 'S Rioghal Mo Dhream! http://www.CPLPacific.com/ ([XXH<>%<>HXX])=============================
