[lug] Microsoft drops support for Netscape tools

[Dhruva B. Reddy]

I have always found Netscape 4.x on anything other than Windows nothing short
of horrible.  I abandoned it the moment I discovered Opera.  However, Opera is
not without its problems--it has some JavaScript issues, mostly on forms that
use it to enforce entry into mandatory fields (it sometimes refuses to send the
form, claiming that a mandatory field is blank, when in fact it's not).

I have given up the idea of using just one browser.  Opera renders pretty
quickly.  Mozilla is catching up, though.  I have switched from Opera to Mozilla
as my primary browser.  I switch to Opera when Mozilla barfs (like today, when
I ran into some downloading problems).

I wasn't impressed with Konqueror when I tried it late last year (I can't
remember why).  From your comments however, it may be time to have another look.

Dhruva

On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 01:08:05PM -0600, Scott A. Herod wrote:
> John Starkey wrote:
> > 
> > Thus spake Evelyn Mitchell (efm at tummy.com):
> >
> > I've heard that NN 6.1 is out and looking pretty good with the exception of
> > some JS issues. Not sure if they have a Linux version out yet.
> 
> One of the guys in the office tried it and said that it was much buggier
> than 4.7.  I second the Konqueror comments and would lose NS entirely
> except that I've got all my mail configured for it.