[lug] Microsoft drops support for Netscape tools

[Prescott Oelke]

I tend toward Opera for everyday use and Mozilla when I need support for
Java. But Opera supports Java now too. I still run into problems with
Opera on some JavaScript stuff but in those cases Mozilla always works.
The Konquerer browser is getting nicer (the KDE 2.2 as a whole is really
nice) but I rarely use it as Opera tends to render most pages better.

Prescott Oelke

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]
On Behalf Of Dhruva B. Reddy
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 1:28 PM
To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
Subject: Re: [lug] Microsoft drops support for Netscape tools

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.

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