Mozilla/Netscape Question

paladin · Post by **paladin** » 2004-01-04 10:37pm

I have installed version 1.5 of Mozilla on my computer and I love it! It seems to have picked up my settings for Netscape.

Does anyone know if I still Netscape or can I deleted it?

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-01-04 10:47pm

You can nuke it. Mozilla doesn't rely on it and since you've gotten it's settings it's of no more use to you.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2004-01-05 02:48pm

Unless you make webpages and want to test them in Netscape too.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2004-01-06 02:54am

Slartibartfast wrote:Unless you make webpages and want to test them in Netscape too.

Which would be stupid since they use the same rendering engine.

(unless he was using 4.x.... 6 and up used the gecko engine, which is what Mozilla uses.)

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2004-01-06 03:15am

That's not necessarily the case if the Mozilla engine is improved and tweaked over the Netscape codebase, and you want to try to make pages show correctly there too.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-01-06 10:12am

Slartibartfast wrote:That's not necessarily the case if the Mozilla engine is improved and tweaked over the Netscape codebase, and you want to try to make pages show correctly there too.

It would be more accurate to say that the Netscape codebase is production-stabilized version of the Mozilla codebase.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2004-01-06 10:44am

Does Netscape still have AOLified bloat in it like it used to? Not that I'll be switching from Mozzy to anything else out there any time soon (unless it's Firebird!)

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-01-06 01:36pm

NS 7 still has some bloat to it, unfortunately.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2004-01-07 01:33am

phongn wrote:NS 7 still has some bloat to it, unfortunately.

And not as many features as Mozilla....namely the popup blocker.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2004-01-07 01:55am

Well, Netscape has also been axed, so no more updates for you.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2004-01-08 06:30am

phongn wrote:
Slartibartfast wrote:That's not necessarily the case if the Mozilla engine is improved and tweaked over the Netscape codebase, and you want to try to make pages show correctly there too.
It would be more accurate to say that the Netscape codebase is production-stabilized version of the Mozilla codebase.

Not if Netscape didn't display all the standard WWW code correctly (like IE didn't), since Mozilla could have corrected a lot of such failures.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-01-08 11:06am

Slartibartfast wrote:Not if Netscape didn't display all the standard WWW code correctly (like IE didn't), since Mozilla could have corrected a lot of such failures.

I frankly have no idea what you're saying here.

Daltonator · Post by **Daltonator** » 2004-01-08 01:02pm

Crayz9000 wrote:Well, Netscape has also been axed, so no more updates for you.

Wait, you're joking, right?

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2004-01-08 02:27pm

Daltonator wrote:
Crayz9000 wrote:Well, Netscape has also been axed, so no more updates for you.
Wait, you're joking, right?

Uh, I'm probably mistaken, but I thought that when AOL spun off Mozilla, they also killed the Netscape browser?

Edit: nevermind, a Google search proved that I was mistaken. AOL only laid off 10% of their Netscape employees (part of spinning off Mozilla, apparently...)

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2004-01-09 03:14am

phongn wrote:
Slartibartfast wrote:Not if Netscape didn't display all the standard WWW code correctly (like IE didn't), since Mozilla could have corrected a lot of such failures.
I frankly have no idea what you're saying here.

Um, I think what I'm trying to say is that if Netscape renderer was imperfect, and then Mozilla tweaked it into a properly compliant WWW renderer, then it would be useful to have the Netscape browser handy to say how it fucked up WWW so you could make your WWW fucked up (I mean "compliant") enough so it could show well in all browsers.

That's a big IF though, I don't know for sure if Netscape standard renderer was okay or not.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2004-01-09 04:13am

I believe NS6 uses the Mozilla 0.9[something] renderer, while NS7 uses the 1.0 or 1.1 renderer.