Yeah; Netscape under Linux isn't wonderfully stable. But hey, at
least it doesn't crash the whole OS. :) Hang on for another 1-4 months and
Netscape 6.0'll be out. It's based on an entirely new (entirely
open-source) codebase, and it looks like it'll be _extremely_ good. (Like,
maybe even "blow Internet Explorer on Win32 clear-out-of-the-water" good.)
Current releases are still quite beta; I don't think they've quite
surpassed Netscape 4.7's stability yet. There are some other options, too,
which are run through pretty exhaustively at
http://webreview.com/pub/2000/01/14/feature/index2.html
and
http://www.webreview.com/pub/2000/02/04/feature/index4.html
Matt
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Nat wrote:
> It's Netscape. The only time I've ever crashed Linux is with Netscape,
> actually, and yes, it is weird in other ways. I think I even crashed
> Solaris with Netscape. You could use Lynx, but that's text only; there's
> a web browser called Opera which I hear is excellent but it's not free.
> So if you want a Netscape/IE substitute, you're out of luck. Somehow the
> Linux version was actually SLOWER than normal MacOS on my iMac- go figure.
>
> -Nat
>
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