The browser itself has had a major facelift. That particular problem again hasn't happened again so far. I ended up having to kill the Netscape process. Netscape 6 worked like a champ! I then went to Hotmail home page (a Microsoft webmail site). In previous versions of Netscape, I noticed that if I opened too many browsers at one time it would crash (I believe it was a memory problem with Linux versions, I may be wrong though). I decided to open a new browser with CTRL+N and noticed that it loaded a lot faster. I checked my running processes and noticed a Java virtual machine running. That struck me as odd since my system is running an Athlon 750 and 256MB ram. Upon launching the browser I noticed it was really slow. The installer ran just fine and I soon had a workable copy of Netscape 6 running on my computer. I gave up and connected through my LAN instead (T-1 Internet access). That was either attributed to my ISP or a busy site. The problem was I could not finish the download this way, it kept on stalling.
It launched a nice looking GUI and ran me through the steps. After connecting to the Internet (dial-up) I ran the installer script. Running the installer was fairly simple (follow the instructions). I tried installing Netscape two ways, using the installer and running it off of a CD. I didn't have anything to lose since the current browsers I was using just plain sucked.
I decided to download Netscape 6 and put it to the test. Usually when IE is mentioned it refers to Microsoft Windows applications, not Linux.Īs we all know, comparing MS applications to Linux applications is like comparing apples to Oranges.
Then I saw the reference to it possibly being an IE (Internet Explorer) killer. It supports more Web standards, more deeply, more consistently across platforms and devices than any other browser engine in history." Of course I thought "cool, it must be pretty good". When Netscape released it's version 6 it claim to have: "the best standards support of any browser engine available. There doesn't seem to be any browsers that have good features, support, standards, and stability. Most web browsers on the market today for Linux seem to be lacking.
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