Goodbye, Netscape.
 

http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=3422


| ... AOL has cut or will cut the remaining team working on Mozilla
| in a mass firing and are dismantling what was left of Netscape
| (they've even pulled the logos off the buildings).

Re: Goodbye, Netscape.
 

In article <bo7Ra.5184$9f7.609098@news02.tsnz.net>,
Steve <steve@nospam4me.org> wrote:

> Ralph Fox allegedly said:
>
> >
> >
> > http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=3422
> >
> >
> > | ... AOL has cut or will cut the remaining team working on Mozilla
> > | in a mass firing and are dismantling what was left of Netscape
> > | (they've even pulled the logos off the buildings).
>
> Also worth distinguishing between Netscape and Mozilla.
>
> Mozilla is open source and development continues.

So is safari for the macintosh and it performs a dman sight better

Re: Goodbye, Netscape.
 

In article <l2u9hvccm3b2nus9aj881rk899em7lorma@news.paradise. net.nz>,
ralphfralphf@xtraxtra.coco.nznz.undo-echo.invalid says...
>
>
> http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=3422
>

The question beggars asking: w.t.f. did AOL ever bother buying Netscape?
This seems somewhat reminiscent of Corporate Raiderdom. Or just plain
stupidity.

Having said that I must admit that I stopped using Netscape some months
after Netscape 7 came out, with its compulsory 'activation' that wouldn't
work thorugh firewalls, had to be re-activated on every damn reinstall,
'active installers' that wouldn't work through the firewall, blah blah
blah: out-mickeying Mickeysoft by installing all kinds of bells and
whistles and chrome I didn't want even when told not to in a custom
install.
I got just plain sick of it and went over to using Mozilla and Opera in
turns. (still do)

Even so, I hate to see any, I mean ANY competitor to Mickeysoft go down
shipwrecked. And Netscape had ever so much more mana than the other
contenders.

my 2 cent's worth -P.

--

Please note munged reply address - delete the obvious ....

Re: Goodbye, Netscape.
 

In article <k8bRa.5253$9f7.617227@news02.tsnz.net>,
Steve <steve@nospam4me.org> wrote:

> Who is this allegedly said:
>
> >> Mozilla is open source and development continues.
> >
> > So is safari for the macintosh and it performs a dman sight better
>
> Galeon is probably the Linux equivalent.

based on the khtml engine ?

Re: Goodbye, Netscape.
 

In article <MPG.19801315d0a1c5c19897e1@news.nzl.ihugultra.co. nz>,
Peter Huebner <peterh@this-bounces.igrin.co.nz> wrote:

>
> Even so, I hate to see any, I mean ANY competitor to Mickeysoft go down
> shipwrecked. And Netscape had ever so much more mana than the other
> contenders.
>
> my 2 cent's worth -P.

I stop using netscape years ago when it would not print about 30-40% of
the web pages I wanted to print. I switched to IE but have been using
safari ever since it came out.

Re: Goodbye, Netscape.
 

"Ralph Fox" <ralphfralphf@xtraxtra.coco.nznz.undo-echo.invalid> wrote in
message news:l2u9hvccm3b2nus9aj881rk899em7lorma@news.parad ise.net.nz...
>
>
> http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=3422
>
>
> | ... AOL has cut or will cut the remaining team working on Mozilla
> | in a mass firing and are dismantling what was left of Netscape
> | (they've even pulled the logos off the buildings).
>
>
>
Used it once in the early days, and again recently when IE6 was well and
truly The King. I'm not gonna miss it. Good riddance.

Re: Goodbye, Netscape.
 

Julian Visch wrote:

> Steve wrote:
>
>> Ralph Fox allegedly said:
>>
>>
>>>
>>>http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=3422
>>>
>>>
>>>| ... AOL has cut or will cut the remaining team working on Mozilla
>>>| in a mass firing and are dismantling what was left of Netscape
>>>| (they've even pulled the logos off the buildings).
>>>
>>
>> Also worth distinguishing between Netscape and Mozilla.
>>
>> Mozilla is open source and development continues.
>
>
> I use both Mozilla and Konqueror, hopefully we won't get more idiots
> having IE only sites.
> Have tried IE and it is a piece of garbage doesn't even work well on its
> own OS, on other OSs it is a dog.

Just edit you own agent id in ~/.mozilla/xxxx/yyyyy/user.js

Something like this works well for every site I know of:

user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE
5.01; Windows 98;)");

The only catch is that you must use /5.0 if you want Java plugin to work.

Re: Goodbye, Netscape.
 

Jay allegedly said:

> Steve wrote:
>
>> Who is this allegedly said:
>>
>>>> Mozilla is open source and development continues.
>>>
>>> So is safari for the macintosh and it performs a dman sight better
>>
>> Galeon is probably the Linux equivalent.
>>
>
> No it isn't.
> Galeon uses the Mozilla engine.

I meant in terms of performance.

WIT said Safari performed a damn sight better.

--
Steve

Re: Goodbye, Netscape.
 

Julian Visch allegedly said:

> I use both Mozilla and Konqueror, hopefully we won't get more idiots
> having IE only sites.

I usually sent a very short note to the webmaster asking them to support
alternatives and expressing my regret that I wasn't able to properly see
what they were offering. If it is a commerical site, I name their
competitors (if they support Mozilla better - and they usually do).

Few sites are IE only.

--
Steve

Re: Goodbye, Netscape.
 

Jay allegedly said:

> Just edit you own agent id in ~/.mozilla/xxxx/yyyyy/user.js
>
> Something like this works well for every site I know of:
>
> user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE
> 5.01; Windows 98;)");
>
> The only catch is that you must use /5.0 if you want Java plugin to work.

The problem is they then think a Mozilla user is an IE user.

--
Steve