27th July 2003, 10:29 PM
(This post was last modified: 27th July 2003, 10:36 PM by A Black Falcon.)
First... I have NS 7.01, not 7.1. But I think i'll upgrade it soon.
It is just so, so nice not to have 5 or 6 windows of IE cluttering up the system and just to have one window... I almost never close my webbrowser so having 5+ IE windows open all the time is a major, major pain for system resources, alt-tab switching, finding apps in the taskbar, and just using the internet... its slower to switch between and takes more time and resources to deal with. Having tabs is just so much nicer and quicker... and it gets rid of so many extra instances of the program, a GREAT side effect. It really is hard to use browsers without this...
IE also doesn't have a built-in webpage builder, but Netscape has been including Composer for years now... sure its not a great webpage maker but it is one (that requires no programming) and its free... MS doesn't believe in free webpage builders...
Oh, and the per-site cookie controls are GREAT. I have it on. I block cookies for everywhere except sites that need them... and Netscape remembers it! SO, SO much better than having to have all cookies on, all cookies off, or the 'confirm' box EVERY SINGLE TIME... three bad options. This feature is great.
As for the popup blocker... yes, its similar to third party ones but a bit more effective since its built into the browser. Since its built in it also makes it easier to manage the list of sites exempted from the blocker, I think.
The only place Netscape is behind IE is in being a windows browser -- you can look at directories on your hdd but not run stuff from there. But why you'd be trying to do that in Netscape is beyond me...
Oh, and what are these features that IE had and Netscape didn't? I can't think of any features that IE has had before Netscape (though I never save whole webpages to my HDD so I wouldn't know about that)...
No, Netscape/Mozilla has been first with most all relevant new features. Not that it helped them.
Maybe once IE has those four features I'll look at it again but until then, Mozill (Netscape seems somewhat dead now) is the way to go, no question.
Sorry, but IE just doesn't have any relevant features whatsoever that NS doesn't have.
Oh, as for sites incompatible with NS7, I think I've seen a few that are messed up... nothing too big usually, but for a couple I have to use IE.
Needless to say I don't go to those sites anymore... but its so few that it doesn't really matter as an issue.
I just want to know what MS has against running multiple things in the same app window.
Lets take word processors.
I have two... Corel's 1996 edition of WordPerfect 6.1 (for Win3.1 and 95), and Word 2000.
In WordPerfect 6.1, if I open four documents they all open in seperate windows in wordperfect. You can resize the windows to look at multiple ones at the same time or make it fullscreen and switch with a menu on the menubar. Nice, clean... as I'd expect it to be like.
Word 2000? Sorry, five documents open five Word windows. How nice of them. :chainsaw:
That's just one of the reasons that I honestly believe that my 1996 copy of WordPerfect is better than the many years newer version of Word.
Or any version of Word.
It is just so, so nice not to have 5 or 6 windows of IE cluttering up the system and just to have one window... I almost never close my webbrowser so having 5+ IE windows open all the time is a major, major pain for system resources, alt-tab switching, finding apps in the taskbar, and just using the internet... its slower to switch between and takes more time and resources to deal with. Having tabs is just so much nicer and quicker... and it gets rid of so many extra instances of the program, a GREAT side effect. It really is hard to use browsers without this...
IE also doesn't have a built-in webpage builder, but Netscape has been including Composer for years now... sure its not a great webpage maker but it is one (that requires no programming) and its free... MS doesn't believe in free webpage builders...
Oh, and the per-site cookie controls are GREAT. I have it on. I block cookies for everywhere except sites that need them... and Netscape remembers it! SO, SO much better than having to have all cookies on, all cookies off, or the 'confirm' box EVERY SINGLE TIME... three bad options. This feature is great.
As for the popup blocker... yes, its similar to third party ones but a bit more effective since its built into the browser. Since its built in it also makes it easier to manage the list of sites exempted from the blocker, I think.
The only place Netscape is behind IE is in being a windows browser -- you can look at directories on your hdd but not run stuff from there. But why you'd be trying to do that in Netscape is beyond me...
Oh, and what are these features that IE had and Netscape didn't? I can't think of any features that IE has had before Netscape (though I never save whole webpages to my HDD so I wouldn't know about that)...
No, Netscape/Mozilla has been first with most all relevant new features. Not that it helped them.
Maybe once IE has those four features I'll look at it again but until then, Mozill (Netscape seems somewhat dead now) is the way to go, no question.
Sorry, but IE just doesn't have any relevant features whatsoever that NS doesn't have.
Oh, as for sites incompatible with NS7, I think I've seen a few that are messed up... nothing too big usually, but for a couple I have to use IE.
Needless to say I don't go to those sites anymore... but its so few that it doesn't really matter as an issue.
I just want to know what MS has against running multiple things in the same app window.
Lets take word processors.
I have two... Corel's 1996 edition of WordPerfect 6.1 (for Win3.1 and 95), and Word 2000.
In WordPerfect 6.1, if I open four documents they all open in seperate windows in wordperfect. You can resize the windows to look at multiple ones at the same time or make it fullscreen and switch with a menu on the menubar. Nice, clean... as I'd expect it to be like.
Word 2000? Sorry, five documents open five Word windows. How nice of them. :chainsaw:
That's just one of the reasons that I honestly believe that my 1996 copy of WordPerfect is better than the many years newer version of Word.
Or any version of Word.