h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Alas, as someone who has found outh that their work page doesn't work i 4.75, I can understand the other webmaster's views.

My advice is stuff Netscape 6 (or even 7 now) and get yurself Mozilla 1.0.0 candidate release 3 (at time of typing 2 days old).

It works much better than any Netscape version 6, alows tabbed paged - ie at moment I have three web sites open with tabs at the top to switch between. You can export you cookies from IE into it no problem, it is fast. - oh you'll also need to pop over to Sun and download the latest Java Plugin, a bit anoying but once you have it it stays.

Now only my bank and internet host pages don't work. A few other pages that rely on FrontPage Extension can be flaky, but the majority view just fine.

I now have to spend part of the weekend getting my site 4.75 viewable as I can exclude anyone.

CH

My vote is for Opera... but, hey, why not try them all

Alas, I am going to have to do that to ensure my work pages work on everything

CH

Just make sure you turn on the pipelining option in Mozilla. It makes a HUGE difference, especially here on h2g2. It's turned off by default because a few sites don't like it and refuse to load completely but I haven't found many of those (www.scifi.com is one).

I have yet to download and try the Netscape 7 Preview Release, but I'm willing to bet it is based on Mozilla 1.0 Preview Release, or something close like 0.9.9. Mozilla is turning out to be a great browser - they've made tremendous progress in the 1.0 versions, and really neat things are about to happen to 1.0.1

I'm a dinosaur - I still use Netscape 4.5. I HATE Netscape 6...

d'Elephant is right, NS 7 is several versions back on the Mozilla, don't even think it is CR1

What is Pipelining? Found the setting but nothing in help about it!

St Emily, if you only tried NS 6.0 or 6.1 then I agree. 6.2.x were all a lot better, but as they all use the sub version 1 Mozilla (A291016) then many improvements have been made to the basic browser.

It wins for me on many fronts - much better Cookie management - accept/reject and then remembers for ever, can choose to skip images not coming from same server - ie Adverts or just block from selcted sites, tabbed browing mentioned above. The fact that ALL you settings, passwords, history, cookies are stored in one folder, copy this to a new PC and you are running with all you settings - IE scatters these about all over the place.

OK advert over

CH

I'm not sure what pipelining is technically, but I'm pretty sure it changes the way the browser talks to the client, making the http transfer more efficient.

I think my observation about the dramatic speed difference may have been coincidental though. I shut off pipelining for comparision, and noticed that the speed gain on h2g2 was still there. Apparently something at h2g2 or the BBC's US proxy server changed at the precise moment that I turned pipelining on. h2g2 is much faster today regardless of my Mozilla settings.

I just downloaded Netscape 7 Preview Release. It looks like it is the same as Mozilla 1.0PR2 at least. There's an annoying but minor bug that first appeared in PR2 that's also in Netscape 7.

As I'm typing this on a my housemates computer, but remote desktop sharing with my own so I can use Opera, I think my vote is for Opera as well!

I've just found a very usful page

http://wp.netscape.com/sidebar/preview.html

using the preview feature I've just added a
"Who's Online"
and
"conversation list"
panels to my sidebar in Mozilla 1.0

Amazing! You reckon they're just like the panels on Opera you used to add in December 2001?

yup

I just documented how to do it A786251

(I still prefer Opera though )