Re: FLASH: Netscape 6 is a DISASTER

[Brian]

What're ya doin' downloading a BETA of anything tryin' ta fix sumthin'?!?


-Brian Matthews


> 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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