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|    Moz Champion to Patrick Murray    |
|    Re: netscape 8 ....I hate to say sucks!    |
|    24 May 05 05:04:51    |
      From: moz.champion@sympatico.ca              Patrick Murray wrote:       > Unfortunately, I have to agree. I have been using Netscape since 4.0 but       > unless some issues are resolved in 8.0, I am sticking with 7.2.       >       > 1) No POP mail support at all. Have to open POP mail in 7.2. Why do that       > and have 8.0 open at the same time? Kinda pointless to me.       >       > 2) Serious resource hog. When 8.0 was running, data was always being       > written and thus making the system (P3, 350mHZ, 256MB, 80 GB, 1/2 full)       > sluggish. Not good.       >       > someone@somedomain.com.invalid wrote:       >       >> the preferences section utterly blows compared to 7.2 they've taken       >> out alot of options that I use. I still have not gotten regular e-mail       >> to work it keeps trying to make it webmail.I will stay with 7.2       >>       >>                     Netscape 8 is a BROWSER only (with IM addition)       it is based on Firefox       it is intended as a replacement/alternative to AOL's IE based browser       it is not intended to be a replacement for Mozilla suite (1.7.8) and its       derivitive of Netscape 7       it is not available for Linux and/or Macintosh              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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