netscape 6 preview 3

[plasmid]

I played arround with the netscape 6 preview 3 the other day, and I must say I was not very impressed. I know this is still beta software, but this browser was just killing me. I found it really sluggish, even with most of the eyecandy stuff off. I didn't find their tab thing on the left side of the brower to be useful at all (it wasn't useful when IE added it to thier browser, and it's not useful in netscape now). Worst of all, it had problems displaying certain pages properly.

Now maybe this is a great browser and my problems had something to do with my machine, but I would like to know what others think about this browser. For now I will revert back to 4.75 (why did they jump from 4.75 to 6?? Do they have something against the number 5??). Let me know what you think about this, and if you know of a browser that is good with java in linux, please let me know so I can continue to waste time at pogo.com now that I have left M$ for a real OS

-plasmid

[Counterstrike]

The damn thing kept stopping whenever I did anything (it closed on it's own), and this stupid "Quality Agent" thing pops up. Yeah, I'll give ya some quality advice Netscape. Don't distribute software that crashes every 5 seconds. I've never EVER ran into stuff like that with any other beta... I ain't about to start taking it now.

[Darth Tminos]

I'm never going to even dare touch the new Netscapes. Once Mozilla is finished, maybe it will be good. Once Opera for linux is finished, it will be good (it kicks arse on windows though). Lynx still rulez!

[klamath]

why did they jump from 4.75 to 6?

They released the development version of Netscape 5 to mozilla.org . The code sucked so much that mozilla.org rewrote it. The new codebase is the basis for Netscape 6 - it has little code in common with Netscape 5 or 4.

I personally use Mozilla, although KDE's Konquerer is also pretty good.

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- Klamath
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[plasmid]

does KDE's brower support java?

-plasmid

[Xsecrets]

I haven't seen that many problems with the new netscape preview I looks and acts just like mozilla with a pretty skin on it if you ask me.

Oh and to answer the question as to why the jump from 4 to 6 they are wanting to use the new gecko core for the next version of AOL (since they now own netscape) and AOL is already at version 5.

[Skroob]

I mainly use Mozilla nightlies and Skipstone but I also use NS 4.7 and Galeon depending on my mood or if I need SSL. For those who don't know Skipstone and Galeon are based on the Mozilla rendering engine Gecko but they are much more bare bones. Unfortunately right now they still take a while to load also. There is definitely something appealing about there minimalist look.

Skroob

[ssadams]

I am using it right now,have been since it was released.Its getting better with each release.Yes its still a little slow,but I can live with that.I also use the latest Mozilla and Links.

[klamath]

plasmid - AFAIK, yes. You need to install your own JRE and tell Konq where to find it. I haven't tested it myself, so I don't know how well it works.

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- Klamath
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[Darth Tminos]

Where is Skipstone? I've used Galeon (M18 broke it though) but I haven't heard of Skipstone... where is it?