From: pascal.chevrel_nospam_@free.fr   
      
   Le 08/06/2005 13:22, justme a ecrit :   
   > I've been watching the posts to this group getting fewer over time and   
   > a lot seems to be problems with versions past 4.7.   
   >   
   > It seems to me from reading posts that there are more glitches and   
   > problems than it's worth trying the new versions. Is there any good   
   > reason to upgrade from 4.7 or is Netscape fubar with Firefox picking   
   > up the slack?   
   >   
   > Karen   
      
   You are kidding aren't you ?   
      
   Compared to Firefox+Thunderbird, Netscape Communicator 4.7 is a big   
   piece of outdated junk. Consider that Netscape 4.7 is a 1996 (!)   
   software package and we are in 2005. Most of the sites I visit wouldn't   
   even display in NC4.7 since they use a lot of CSS and this is the   
   general trend.   
      
   On the mail part, Thunderbird has so many advantages over NC4.7 that   
   it's not even fun to compare :) Antispam filtering,   
   multi-pop/multi-IMAP, themes, extensions, anti-phishing and inline   
   dictionnary for the next version etc.   
      
   UNless you are on a very old computer with less than 256MB memory, I   
   can't see any readon to stick to Netscape 4.7. Even NS7.2 which is a   
   huge improvement over NC4.7 is already largely outdated (I won't talk   
   about NS8, I think it is an unsafe piece of marketing crap).   
      
   Pascal   
      
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