guys, be a little easier on netscape. the easiest way to lure many a pc user away from internet explorer is by setting netscape as the default browser for their machine and encouraging them to just go with it, or being nice and helping them get used to it. netscape might not be your preference on mac, but it is a very useful tool in getting people on an overpriced inadequately secured os (windows) to start using and becoming acquainted with free, configurable and more than adequately secure software. i have helped many an unskilled windows user stay worlds more secure with netscape. uninformed windows users can be quite stubborn, i have met many of these types and the only web-browsers a lot of them have ever heard of are internet explorer and netscape (probably because those are the only two that came bundled with their pre-configured os), which means those are the only two browsers they would ever use, willingly. mention firefox, opera or kmeleon to your run of the mill windows user and they will have no freaking idea what those names refer to, seriously. so the quickest way to get them off i.e. is to set up netscape for them, and make it their default browser. i do not use it on my mac or on my windows machine, but it is free and it can be a big help. besides, don't any of you remember how fun it was to browse the web with netscape 4 on a system 7 mac!
Eeew. If you're having trouble with sites demanding certain browsers, you can spoof your User Agent with Camino and this plugin:
http://osx.iusethis.com/app/useragent
Netscape is garbage; it's just Mozilla SeaMonkey with AOL crap added. Both are extremely ugly and bloated, however, so I really suggest using stand-alone apps instead. Stand-alone browsers for the Mac that use the same Gecko rendering engine include Camino and Firefox . The stand-alone Gecko-based email client for the Mac is Thunderbird and the stand-alone Gecko-based calendar app is Sunbird
I have come across a few sites that demanded IE6 and this was the only mac browser that worked (I tried them all). So, I guess, this is useful for at least that...
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guys, be a little easier on netscape. the easiest way to lure many a pc user away from internet explorer is by setting netscape as the default browser for their machine and encouraging them to just go with it, or being nice and helping them get used to it. netscape might not be your preference on mac, but it is a very useful tool in getting people on an overpriced inadequately secured os (windows) to start using and becoming acquainted with free, configurable and more than adequately secure software. i have helped many an unskilled windows user stay worlds more secure with netscape. uninformed windows users can be quite stubborn, i have met many of these types and the only web-browsers a lot of them have ever heard of are internet explorer and netscape (probably because those are the only two that came bundled with their pre-configured os), which means those are the only two browsers they would ever use, willingly. mention firefox, opera or kmeleon to your run of the mill windows user and they will have no freaking idea what those names refer to, seriously. so the quickest way to get them off i.e. is to set up netscape for them, and make it their default browser. i do not use it on my mac or on my windows machine, but it is free and it can be a big help. besides, don't any of you remember how fun it was to browse the web with netscape 4 on a system 7 mac!
Netscape 9 is coming soon. Based on Firefox 2.0 codebase.
Eeew. If you're having trouble with sites demanding certain browsers, you can spoof your User Agent with Camino and this plugin:
http://osx.iusethis.com/app/useragent
Composer works a little better than standalone versions I've tried, like Nvu.
Netscape is garbage; it's just Mozilla SeaMonkey with AOL crap added. Both are extremely ugly and bloated, however, so I really suggest using stand-alone apps instead. Stand-alone browsers for the Mac that use the same Gecko rendering engine include Camino and Firefox . The stand-alone Gecko-based email client for the Mac is Thunderbird and the stand-alone Gecko-based calendar app is Sunbird
This thing is really REALLY old!
I have come across a few sites that demanded IE6 and this was the only mac browser that worked (I tried them all). So, I guess, this is useful for at least that...