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1999/11/15-16 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:16885 Activity:high
11/14   For me, on average, Netscape Mail on NT crashes once every week.
        It also crashes the browser. I've switched to IE and I gotta say...
        it's quite stable. Fuck Netscape. They keep blaming their stupid
        software on MS secret API. Why can't they just admit that they
        have a friggin big ass slow bloatware.
        \_ Here's a secret:  Netscape doesn't care about the mail client.
                They sell server software.
        \_ Same would go for their browser also. IE5 runs circles
        around the latest NS browser in terms of speed and stability.
                \_ I guess they don't care about that either.
                   \_ Netscape hasn't been a browser/client company for a long
                      time.  Netscape is now Netcenter and a brand name.  Why
                      use a browser from a portal company?  Do you (the
                      generic 'you') use the yahoo browser or the lycos
                      client?  Then why use the Netscape one?  It sucks and
                      has sucked for a long time.  Few hate M$ more than me,
                      but I'm not going to use the crummier NS products over
                      it.
                        \_ It feels guilty to have to defend a u$oft
                           product. But the facts are clear in this case.
                           \_ It hurt to write, but yeah, the M$ stuff >> NS.
        \_ Use mutt! It's fast, versatile, and has a nice, small
           memory footprint.
            soda> size `which mutt`
            text        data    bss     dec     hex
            409600      20480   8248    438328  6b038
             \_ Lynx is smaller and never crashes but you get what you pay for.
        \_ Use VM in NT emacs.
                \_ XEmacs on NT
                        \_ Use Emacs in VM/CMS
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