From: Cap1MD@att.net   
      
   dudleydoright wrote:   
   > if you deleted it all how did you get the bookmarks and e-mail addresses   
   >   migrated?   
   >   
   > G.T. TYSON wrote:   
   >> Last night I took a step I had been putting off for some time. I   
   >> completely deleted all traces of Netscape from this computer. Now I'm   
   >> wondering why it took so long.   
   >>   
   >> I'm not sure what made it turn into the computer equivalent of a ball   
   >> and chain. But in the past few months it had developed an annoying   
   >> habit of not starting. I'd click the icon and nothing would happen for   
   >> thirty or more seconds. Then it would come up with sections missing,   
   >> or I would just get the toolbar across the top of the screen and   
   >> nothing else. A quick Ctrl-Alt-Delete would put it right, but   
   >> sometimes I would have to do it twice. Other times it would start with   
   >> the Netscape 7.2 ID box, if that's the correct term, like nothing was   
   >> wrong. I never knew which thing would happen. The capper finally came   
   >> when I sat down here Thursday to find all my bookmarks had   
   >> disappeared. I figured I would just reload them from the floppy disc   
   >> backup, but the disc only contained a few of them. Most were gone.   
   >> That's when it got spooky. I don't know if it was a virus or what, but   
   >> I finally got just plain fed up.  The proverbial straw had finally   
   >> broken the camel's back.   
   >>   
   >> So now Netscape is gone. It's outta here. I'm using Mozilla Firefox   
   >> for my main browser now, with Thunderbird as the email client. I was   
   >> amazed at how easily Thunderbird installed and transferred all the   
   >> address books and spamguard lists from the old email client. There's   
   >> also a HTML authoring client called NVU that does more or less exactly   
   >> the same thing as the Netscape Composer, so that's what I'll be using   
   >> for website updates. And the floppy backup of the bookmarks reflects   
   >> exactly what is currently on the browser. I think I'm going to like   
   >> this Mozilla thing.   
   >>   
   >> I keep a copy of Internet Explorer around for the occasional website   
   >> that is optimized for IE, but that is an increasingly rare thing these   
   >> days. I hardly ever use it for anything else because I'm always   
   >> hearing of new security holes being discovered in IE. Apparently it's   
   >> about as secure as a screen door in a submarine. It's there if I need   
   >> it, but I hardly ever click on it.   
   >>   
   >> Sometimes you just gotta do what you just gotta do.   
      
   He probably did not delete the profile, and FF/TB imported the data when   
   he installed them.   
      
   Lee   
      
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