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Coloken

09-20-2004 05:56:32




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OT_but some of you mentioned the new discussion place not showing up right. I am using browser/E-mail called Mozilla. Works great, new version has spell checker in E-mail. I refuse to use MS "look out" and its sending on viruses, and Netscape got buggy. Its free. No idea what you Mac users can do. Get a new Mac with X10 ? .




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ben uk

09-21-2004 13:47:41




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 Re: OT- browsers in reply to Coloken, 09-20-2004 05:56:32  
It is common these days for people to assume IE is best, because its the most common. ITs not!

Mozilla and lots of other browsers are 10 times better than IE.

Mozillas rendering spped is so much faster than IEs, if you are finding the internet slow, when i was on a modem i was, first download mozilla! You will notice the difference immedietely!

It is not downloading the page faster obviously, but is converting it from HTML to graphics MUCH MUCH faster!

In other words doing its job!

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Loren-MN

09-20-2004 21:46:56




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 Re: OT- browsers in reply to Coloken, 09-20-2004 05:56:32  
A lot depends on how you are entering this site. Stan in Florida and I had this discussion a while back. He could see things I couldn't and I could see things he couldn't. He was using www.ytmag.com. I was using www.antiquetractors.com. I haven't checked lately, but the front or first page was different, especially the left column. Only the first page. Once beyond that, the content is pretty much the same. Loren-MN

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ben uk

09-20-2004 13:44:19




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 Re: OT- browsers in reply to Coloken, 09-20-2004 05:56:32  
I agree - Mozilla is god!

Iuse Mozilla firefox at the mo, even better than standard mozilla!

I beleive you can get mozilla on macs.



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MarkB_MI

09-20-2004 09:45:02




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 Re: OT- browsers in reply to Coloken, 09-20-2004 05:56:32  
Once you"ve used the "tabbed browsing" feature in Mozilla, it"s pretty hard to go back to IE.



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genep

09-20-2004 19:40:36




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 Re: OT- browsers in reply to MarkB_MI, 09-20-2004 09:45:02  
My son, who knows more about this stuff than I do, uses Mozilla. He says that Netscape is Mozilla with more features. I tried Mozilla but went back to netscape 7.2. It runs good for me.



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MarkB_MI

09-20-2004 20:29:06




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 Re: OT- browsers in reply to genep, 09-20-2004 19:40:36  
Gene,

"Mozilla" was the internal name for the Netscape browser. After Netscape lost the browser wars to IE, they started the Mozilla project where anyone could contribute to the Netscape/Mozilla code. The current Mozilla is the the result of this project. The new Netscape that you're using is simply one version of Mozilla that AOL calls Netscape. The latest version of Mozilla will always be a little bit ahead of the latest version of Netscape, but they are basically the same.

By the way, there's a scaled-down version of Mozilla without all of the mail and other non-browser features. It's called "Firebird".

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Allan in NE

09-21-2004 05:23:09




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 Re: OT- browsers in reply to MarkB_MI, 09-20-2004 20:29:06  
Mornin' Mark,

Yep, that's the way it played out.

When I first got on the 'net, is was all in DOS format.

Ya had to type a command to even get the modem to "wake up", let alone dial; still another command to make it dial up and then, after typing another twenty commands later, you finally got to where you were going. What a hassle! :>)

When that first little Mozilla program came out, wow! What an impovement! Even tho it couldn't, by itself, "connect" to the 'net, it let you look at the world in a windows format. (I think I still have that original version laying around here somewhere).

Then along came Netscape and it was even better yet.

Then the wars started when our uncle Bill rewrote Mozilla to fit his view of the world and how it should play out; he called it Internet Explorer.

About three versions later, he laced it right in with his operating system. (That's when things really started gitting stinky & all the lawsuits started!)

Anyway, all browsers are an offshoot of that first original Mozilla browser.

Allan

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MarkB_MI

09-21-2004 08:31:05




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 Re: OT- browsers in reply to Allan in NE, 09-21-2004 05:23:09  
Hi Allen,

I think you were thinking of NCSA Mosaic. That was the original graphical web browser. Marc Andreesen wrote Mosaic, then left NCSA to form Netscape.

I came across this page that has some information about the history of Mozilla. I didn't know that the name "Mozilla" is supposed to mean "Mosaic Killer". Netscape sure did kill off Mosaic.

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Allan in NE

09-21-2004 08:55:30




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 Re: OT- browsers in reply to MarkB_MI, 09-21-2004 08:31:05  
Hi Mark,

Yep, you are more than likely right about that one.

Thanks,

Allan



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