Re: Netscape 6 bashing

I'm not sure it's going to be going away soon - People Magazine sent out
Netscape 6 CD's with the February 19 issue  :-(

~ Kathleen Anderson
Spider Web Woman Designs
http://www.spiderwebwoman.com
email: kathleen(at)spiderwebwoman.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "howardm" <howardm(at)achilles.net>
To: "hwg- basics(at)hwg.org" <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: February 11, 2001 5:36 PM
Subject: Re: Netscape 6 bashing


> I've been using that website for several years now, there's never been any
> message about any other browser.
> That, together with the rest of the messages you can see, tell me not to
use
> Netscape 6. I expect it will probably go away in a while anyway. I'm not
> saying that's good, but with the decreased market share that Netscape had
> already, and then to release a browser that's got all these problems. . .
> howardm
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Justin H. <justinh(at)whidbey.net>
> To: HWG Basics <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 4:13 PM
> Subject: Re: Netscape 6 bashing
>
>
> > Actually, no banking/financial institution is going to allow a first
> > generation browser through their security without extensive testing.
> That's
> > why you can't use your bank, not because Netscape is screwed up.
> >
> > Justin H.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "howardm" <howardm(at)achilles.net>
> > To: "Raj Bhaskar" <raj(at)lordofthemoon.com>; <hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org>
> > Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 12:35 PM
> > Subject: Re: Netscape 6 bashing
> >
> >
> > > I think you've just been lucky.
> > > My bank has an internet site where I can check my current account
> balance,
> > > VISA balance and make payments etc.  - they have a warning on their
> > > website -
> > > "Royal Bank does not currently support Netscape 6.x browsers.
> > > Please do not upgrade your browser at this time. "
> > > If they can't figure it out then there's obviously enough problems
that
> I
> > > will never change to Netscape 6, I figure there's probably lots of
other
> > > websites that don't work either, and rather than complain about the
> > websites
> > > I'm going to blame the browser.
> > > I'm on the web to use websites, and I want a browser to work.
> > >
> > > howardm
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Raj Bhaskar <raj(at)lordofthemoon.com>
> > > To: <hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org>
> > > Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 1:36 PM
> > > Subject: Netscape 6 bashing
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > > Be sure EVERYTHING you want is backed up before you turn AOL-6
> > > > > loose.  Though not a dangerous as Netscape 6,
> > > >
> > > > Why is there all this negativity over Netscape 6?  I've had it
running
> > > quite
> > > > happily for a couple of months now on a Windows NT4 Server (don't
> ask!)
> > > > without any real problems at all.  Okay, so it's quite slow to start
> up
> > > > (which is the main reason that I haven't installed it on my P166 at
> > home)
> > > > but I've found it at least as stable (if not more so) than NN4.x.
> Have
> > I
> > > just
> > > > been lucky?
> > > >
> > > > Raj.
> > > > --
> > > > __        __
> > > > |   | |   |   Rajnish Bhaskar, University of Glasgow
> > > > |_ / |_ /    E-Mail: raj(at)lordofthemoon.com
> > > > |   \ |   \   Home Page: http://lordofthemoon.com
> > > > |    \ |__/
> > > > We're women.  We have double standards to live up to.
> > > >        -- Ally McBeal
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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