Yeah, but with Lynx you miss out on all the cheesecake photos [wink wink].
Posted on 12/31/2007 12:17:16 PM PST by GATOR NAVY
Lynx is great. I don’ need no steenkin’ graphics!
There’s still an AOL? Good grief.
Yeah, but with Lynx you miss out on all the cheesecake photos [wink wink].
LOL - I used 4.74 for years with W98SE because it was "stable" compared to other stuff I tried at the time. Eventually the buggy 4.x series were retired here in favor of IE6, Firefox, Opera, etc. I lived with 4.74 crashes and hangs for a long time. :o)
Netscape is just Mozilla repackaged with more bloat. Sea Monkey is almost exactly like Netscape. Firefox is the trimmed down version with a browser only. And Firefox has way less fine tunning options. Yet it is more developed in terms of keeping up with things. One of the most annoying things about firefox is that its cookie control is far inferior, if not just about impossible to control in an easy way. Once you block a site then it is a real hassle to unblock it. SeaMonkey makes that easy.
Netscape is just Mozilla repackaged with more bloat. Sea Monkey is almost exactly like Netscape. Firefox is the trimmed down version with a browser only. And Firefox has way less fine tunning options. Yet it is more developed in terms of keeping up with things. One of the most annoying things about firefox is that its cookie control is far inferior, if not just about impossible to control in an easy way. Once you block a site then it is a real hassle to unblock it. SeaMonkey makes that easy.
http://www.mozilla.org/products/
YOU are a prince {or princess, I can’t tell}. Thank you.
Then after I do all that and import my Netscape bookmarks, do I uninstall all the Netscapes I have on my computer? I run on XP.
Like many here, netscape was my first exposure to the world wide web .. and what a marvel it was. Even on dialup in those days. RIP, netscape.
I just finished writing a bash script that uses lynx to pull either the definition of a word or its synonym from the web, depending on how you call it. It’s still quite useful for things like that. :)
What's AOL?
The problem isn’t Internet Explorer anymore. Plenty of people want an alternative browser. No, the problem is Firefox now. When Netscape signed their sharing agreement with Mozilla, they basically signed their own doom. They never should have allowed competing versions of the same codebase. Had they done something like Sun did with Java, getting open source help, but retaining rights to the code, then maybe Navigator could have survived.
I hated Netscape, in the 90s too. IE 3 and then 4.01 were my favorites, and there were powertools you could download from Microsoft that let you highlight text on pages back then with IE 4. I didn’t like IE 5 at all, but 6 made up for it some and now 7 is just fine with me again. I don’t like Firefox at all either.
Time Warner bought AOL. It screwed Ted Turner out of some money, so it wasn’t all bad.
You’re right. AOL bought Time Warner, but Ted still got screwed.
Johnny-come-lately. In 1994, I was running Mosaic and waiting for Netscape to come out. :P
Mosaic only supported GIF images -- anything else opened in a helper app. No tables, no forms, no type or visual control of any kind. It was basically gopher with a mouse.
The question you raised is.....will CNN now go the way of Netscape?
The precedent is now there. IE:Netscape as Fox News:CNN
Let us proclaim the good news....... Time Warner will surely abandon CNN.
Just another casualty of the Microsoft octopus that made a fortune stealing the brilliant ideas of others and using its monopolistic marketing clout to destroy those companies. I think a list of companies damaged or destroyed by Microsoft would fill a fair sized hard drive. I can only imagine how easy computers would be to use if those companies had been able to continue adding their brilliant ideas instead of being driven into the ground by Microsoft. Bill Gates is evil.
LOL!
I played with Mosiac a little after I had been using NS for awhile. I remember thinking how “ancient” Mosiac was compared to NS.
Thanks for the laugh and the memories. Kids today don’t have a clue.
Firefox is free, ans as goldstategop said, can be plucked from firefox.com .
To get a little more technical, Firefox is based on the Mozilla codebase. It's the same browser under the hood, but with some different styling.
A little history is in order.
The first point-and-click Web browser was Mosaic. When Mark Andreesen went into the private sector, he called his newer, better browser Mozilla -- as in Mosaic + Godzilla. It became Netscape.
Netscape was the first browser for anyone who discovered the Web in 1995, and remained the most popular browser for several years after. But you can't out-compete a free product that's pre-installed on Windows, so IE pulled ahead.
So Netscape tried to reinvent itself. No longer a browser company -- though, actually, they made most of their money off their server software -- they tried to become a Web hub. That went reasonably well, but not spectacularly. So AOL used all that pretend money they had due to their inflated stock price, and bought Netscape.
Provider/hub/browser. AOL/Netscape vs. MSN/IE. That was the competitive landscape. It just didn't work out that way.
So AOL decided to make the Netscape code base open-source. They went back to the old Mozilla name, and just put it out there. Anyone, or any group of anyones, could take that code and make a browser out of it. Firefox did the most popular, and IMHO best, version of that.
There was no longer a place for the Netscape browser as a commercial concern, when volunteers were doing a better job. Pulling the plug on it is past due.
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