5/16    How is Netscape 6.01 compared to 4.76?  Is it really more stable,
        faster, and requires less RAM/disk space?  I'm trying to see which
        one to download, and I think such radical re-design as in 4.76->6.0
        always means tons of bugs.  Thx.
        \_ I installed it for a friend on a brand spanking new
           win2k machine.  it installed all sorts of crap,
           ads everywhere, and it fucked up a lot of the handlers
           for types of data like html, jpg, gif, etc...
           (of course it made netscape the default viewer for
           these things, but when opening them it would complain
           about errors).  I was very sad while uninstalling it
           \_ why were you sad? wtf is wrong with you?
                \_ it makes me sad M$ has taken over the world
              \_ i don't know.  it makes me happy.
        \_ 6.0x is a total POS. There are no words in the english language
           to describe how bad it truely is. It is less stable, slower and
           required much more RAM and disk space. Every UI widget is described
           by a different XML file and each time it needs to render a widget
           it re-reads and reparses that XML from disk.
           \_ a big thanks to all the morons who want skin support.  I'd rather
              have a clean, usable, and responsive UI.  and yes, skinning
              could have been done a lot better than the way NN6 does it, but
              from my experience, skins seem to be an excuse for UI designers
              to ignore usability.  and plus, obviously NN6 needs improvement
              in a lot of other areas, so they should have spent their
              programming efforts elsewhere.
        \_ It's sad to see how far Netscape browser has fallen.  I'd love to
           support Netscape, but MSIE is now a better product on Win32, uses
           less resource(that's REALLY saying a lot about 6.0), faster
           and not crashing as often.  On Unix, you are better off with 4.76.
           \_ On Unix, you're better off with Konquerer.
              \_ I compild it, and it kept saying 'cannot open text/html view'
                  WTF?
              \_ this is true.
              \_ Opera is supposed to be good on Linux!
              \_ Not true. On MacOSX you are better off with OmniWeb or iCab.
                 \_ hey dumbshit, how does "you're better off with omniweb"
                    make "you're better off with Konqueror" untrue? hmm?

                    \_ You are not better off with Konqueror on UNIX, only
                       on UNIX systems with X-Windows (which is required to
                       run Konqueror). Not all UNIX systems ship with the
                       wretched POC known as X.
                 \_ OmniWeb is not a UNIX app.
                    \_ It runs on UNIX (MacOSX is BSD UNIX).
              \_ Anything but netscape 6.0.....
        \_ not only does it have a crappy and sluggish UI, but it Netscape broke
           JavaScript.  NN4 ran some JavaScript stuff way faster than IE
           (e.g., switching lots of images).  This was one of the few
           advantages of NN4 over IE.  Naturally NN6 breaks a lot of JavaScript
           that used to work with NN4.
           \_ Glad that I asked.  I'm using both NT and Win2k.  Now I'll have
              to decide between NN 4.76 and IE 5.50.  One thing I don't
              like about my IE 5.50 is that when I bring up the "Properties"
              dialog on a web page, the Created and Modified fields always
              show today's date, while with NN 4.76 on another machine
              the Page Info dialog shows the correct date for the same page.
              Does anyone else experience that in IE?
              \_ Install both.  I use IE most of the time but every once
                 in a while something wouldn't work on IE.  It's nice to
                 have something else around as backup.
        \_ LYNX!  LYNX!  LYNX is the STANDARD!
           \_ But w3m is better.
              \_ Just saw this. It kicks ass.
              \_ w3 on emacs is better than w3m as it renders frames and
                 tables better.
              \_ Does it interface with libjs (javascript) yet?