FLASH: Netscape 6 is a DISASTER

[sahlan cherpitel]

i've been wanting to post this for a couple of days.


please forgive me if i offend anyone, yet i feel offended by the (to me)

insidious way AOL seeks to infiltrate one's computer space without

permission, as well as mucking up all sorts of other stuff in the process


downloaded 'preview' of Netscape 6 for mac a couple of days ago, hoping it

would solve my MIDI problem which wasn't playing in NS on mac


i feel it really is a disaster & wonder if other mac users, at least, have

found the same


it is blatantly stamped with AOL, & i assume the windows version is no

different


first it makes you register a user name, and won't accept anything that

doesn't have one of its netscape user codes in it


then it works at crawling speed making my 300 G3 into a 16 mhtz Performa


then it crashes & crashes & causes lock up


then after disk first aid does its 5 minute duty, NS comes back wanting to

know what caused the crash, so you fill out the note (which is not so bad)

but then it still refuses to work properly


interface: sorry, i go for the "my netscape" or "my" anything on these

things---maybe that's makes the 22,000,000 aol users feel appreciated but

what makes me feel appreciated is simply stuff that works right


the bookmarks still aren't renameable, although it imported the whole batch

from IE5 without my giving it permission (a minor thing but very aol)


right now with this & my recent bad experience trying to give my 14 year old

daughter aol so she could chat with friends (even though she says they all

say, 'aol sucks') i'm turning into a pro-microsoftie


IMHO AOL has totally ruined netscape


now why doesn't someone like linus tovalds invent a really super good stable

browser & become the savior of the internet?


kind regards


sahlan



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