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Date:	Fri, 15 Mar 2002 19:59:47 PST7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Questions

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jack.huffman@worldnet.att.net wrote:
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> I am running Netscape 4.61. On another message board
> some has claimed Mozilla .97 or .98 is better than
> Netscape 6.xx because it is more up-to-date.
> Any comments on this statement will be appreciated.

I use both, depending on the web site.

I use Netscape 4.61 for web browsing. I like to open a lot of web page
windows simultaneously, and when I do I usually have to reboot shortly
thereafter because otherwise my system will hang -- I don't know the
exact cause but I used Theseus once to check for a memory leak and there
was a small one. Also, 4.61 can crash if it gets an animated .gif that
is malformed (the test case is, I believe, that the last image in the
animated sequence is smaller than the others). Also, 4.61 seems to have
trouble with some JavaScript web pages -- for example, the text on the
page won't display. And sometimes it gets confused with fonts. But it
has a good, fast response.

I also use Mozilla (Warpzilla) 0.9.8 which has a few bugs too. It
doesn't crash, but it is noticeably slower than 4.61 (I blame this on it
being a Java program) and when it displays text columns it sometimes
does a crummy job of aligning it (the right margin overflows into and
over the next column; maybe it's my Elsa display driver and not 4.61, I
don't know). 0.9.8 loads my home page faster than 4.61 (2 minutes vs. 4
minutes, it's a 1.1 MB text file of links), but 4.61 seems quicker when
I right-click on a link and then open it in a separate window. Mozilla
is also maddening because I can't do a Ctrl-Esc and highlight *all* of
my open 0.9.8 windows and then show them all -- it only lets me see one
of them at a time, whereas 4.61 dutifully piles them all up so I can
then read each one and close it which exposes the next one in the stack.

Since they are both free, I recommend using both. I have both of them
on my WarpCenter, ready to go.

I see you're using MR/2, Jack, so skip the following if you don't care
about Netscape or Mozilla for email. For email I'm still using Netscape
2.02 (no laughing allowed) but I'm about to switch to Polarbar out of
necessity because I just switched ISPs and my new one only gives me a 10
MB email Inbox which will overflow _very_ fast if I don't download my
messages often (Polarbar and most other email programs will do this
automatically on a timed interval, but 2.02 doesn't). Polarbar is
free. It's a Java program too and a tiny bit slower than 2.02 but that
word "free" is a big enticement *and* it has virtual folders so you can
filter a message into more than one folder simultaneously. I've been
testing Polarbar for about two years and the current 1.21 version seems
to be pretty bug-free (1.22 is coming) and the support seems top-notch
through their mailing list.

- Peter

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