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   gwtc    
   Re: Netscape 8.2   
   10 Feb 06 10:00:57   
   
   geothermal wrote:   
      
   > A.F. wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   >>Is anyone using NS 8.2 and are you satisfied. I am using NS 7.1. Does it   
   >>pay to upgrade?   
   >>   
   >   
   >   
   > Netscape 8.2 works fine for me.  That said, I have tons of hard   
   > drive space, so I never uninstalled 4.7 nor 7.1 nor 7.2 and I have   
   > Opera and Firefox and IE6 and Mozilla somewhere also.  They all   
   > play nice except when I run out of RAM of course.  (^:  The only   
   > bad thing I noticed with Netscape 8.2 is that it did not move   
   > over any of my passwords or usernames for all my websites and   
   > message boards.  I guess I might have to do that manually or   
   > something ?   
   >   
   > The main reason for so many browsers is so I can help people   
   > with their computer issues in newsgroups.  If they say, my computer   
   > internet is wacked, then I ask them what browser they have and if   
   > I have it running, then I can maybe recreate their wackiness on   
   > my computer and google a fix or figure it out on my own.  (^:   
   >   
   > Lastly, I think 8.1 asked me if I wanted to upgrade to 8.2 and   
   > I chose yes, so I think 8.1 does not exist on my computer anymore.   
   > But that is ok since it works fine so far.  I have rebooted the   
   > computer twice so far, just to be sure Netscape 8.2 is well seated and   
   > stable.  Whatever that means.... LOL  Nothing is stable for long.   
   >   
   > geothermal   
   >   
   I don't know how you can have 8.2 because only 8.1 is out.  Where are   
   you getting 8.2 from?   
      
   I believe Net 8.x uses the same password file type as FF.  If so, then   
   copy the files signons.txt and key3.db over.  Do this while Net is closed.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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