Mozilla v. Netscape

[mxg]

As a user of Netscape 4 for many years, I decided, upon getting a new
computer, to give Mozilla a try instead of Netscape 7.

Mozilla is O.K., but I miss the features of the News & Mail readers of
Netscape 4 that Mozilla lacks.

Before I decide to switch, would someone who prefers Mozilla tell me why
you like it more than Netscape.

Thanks.

 

[Gonzo]

Mozilla is O.K., but I miss the features of the News & Mail readers of
Netscape 4 that Mozilla lacks.

Before I decide to switch, would someone who prefers Mozilla tell me why
you like it more than Netscape.

Thanks.

Tabbed browsing, built in pop-up blocker, better security, faster,
plugins..... and many others

 

[Peter Jetson]

Before I decide to switch, would someone who prefers Mozilla tell me why
you like it more than Netscape.

We *don't* like the email and newsgroups in Mozilla more than Netscape
4. We just try to live with it, because Netscape 4 is dead.

I think everyone travelling the same path as you had exactly the same
reservations.

Peter

 

[Chakolate]

We *don't* like the email and newsgroups in Mozilla more than Netscape
4. We just try to live with it, because Netscape 4 is dead.

I think everyone travelling the same path as you had exactly the same
reservations.

So why not use FireFox for browsing, Calypso for mail, and XNews for
usenet? Isn't the whole point of FireFox that it's standalone?


Chakolate

 

[Buzzy]

As a user of Netscape 4 for many years, I decided, upon getting a new
computer, to give Mozilla a try instead of Netscape 7.

Mozilla is O.K., but I miss the features of the News & Mail readers of
Netscape 4 that Mozilla lacks.

Before I decide to switch, would someone who prefers Mozilla tell me why
you like it more than Netscape.

Thanks.

My thoughts for you:
http://www.buzzys.net/mozilla.html

HTH
Buzzy

 

[Buzzy]

Chakolate wrote:

So why not use FireFox for browsing, Calypso for mail, and XNews for
usenet? Isn't the whole point of FireFox that it's standalone?


Chakolate

.............. and for Firefox:
http://www.buzzys.net/firefox.html

HTH
Buzzy

 

[ms]

We *don't* like the email and newsgroups in Mozilla more than Netscape
4. We just try to live with it, because Netscape 4 is dead.

I think everyone travelling the same path as you had exactly the same
reservations.

Peter

I now use FF 093 and TB 071, they are similar, but still don't equal the GUI for
Netscape Comm 479.

Mike Sa

 

[John Corliss]

We *don't* like the email and newsgroups in Mozilla more than Netscape
4. We just try to live with it, because Netscape 4 is dead.
I think everyone travelling the same path as you had exactly the same
reservations.

Peter,
It's considered very bad form to speak for others on usenet. I
personally like the Mozilla News and Mail reader better because I can
configure it to automatically use separate email addresses for posting
to usenet and for sending email. I also like the messaging and junk
mail filtering capabilities better.

 

[Peter Jetson]

Peter Jetson wrote:

It's considered very bad form to speak for others on usenet. I
personally like the Mozilla News and Mail reader better because I can
configure it to automatically use separate email addresses for posting
to usenet and for sending email. I also like the messaging and junk mail
filtering capabilities better.

Okay, fair point. The scope of what I said was meant to include only
those people I had talked to about this issue. Clearly, I have not
talked to everyone, but so far, you're the only dissenting view amongst
those people I have discussed this with.

Therefore, consider it changed to:

Everyone that I have personally discussed this with, except for John
Corliss, *doesn't* like the email and newsgroups in Mozilla better than
Netscape 4.79. Those of us with this view just try to live with it,
because Netscape 4 is dead.

Except for John Corliss, everyone that I've talked to about this who has
travelled the same path as you has had exactly the same reservations.

How's that?

Peter

 

[John Corliss]

Okay, fair point. The scope of what I said was meant to include only
those people I had talked to about this issue. Clearly, I have not
talked to everyone, but so far, you're the only dissenting view amongst
those people I have discussed this with.

Therefore, consider it changed to:

Everyone that I have personally discussed this with, except for John
Corliss, *doesn't* like the email and newsgroups in Mozilla better than
Netscape 4.79. Those of us with this view just try to live with it,
because Netscape 4 is dead.

Except for John Corliss, everyone that I've talked to about this who has
travelled the same path as you has had exactly the same reservations.

How's that?

Peter

LMAO. Okay. But I should mention that I was a devout user of NS 4.79
until I switched to Moz 1.3 based on its mail-news reader's features
alone.

 

[Gary R. Schmidt]

John Corliss wrote:
[SNIP]

LMAO. Okay. But I should mention that I was a devout user of NS 4.79
until I switched to Moz 1.3 based on its mail-news reader's features alone.

Just have to add that the avilability of Message filters in the
newsreader iw what switched me from NS to Moz (probably at 1.3 too).

Cheers,
Gary B-)

 

[Aaron]

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I now use FF 093 and TB 071, they are similar, but still don't equal the
GUI for Netscape Comm 479.

Sorry to butt in, but I have being trialing Thunderbird and I noticed
something interesting.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28327

In essence if you choose to allow HTML mail which is by default (not
plain text or simple HTML), web-bugs can still work. Even though ,
Mozillamail and thunderbird does block images from loading it doesn't
block anything else, for example css, iframes etc.

This mean that web-bugs will work!

If you are using thunderbird, you can use the firewall to restrict
outward connections to anything but your mailserver which solves the
problem, but if you are using the mail component of Mozilla you are
screwed, because to the firewall it appears exactly the same as your
browser, which of course needs full permissions outwards.

Another interesting fact is that with XP SP2, outlook express is in this
regard superior to mozillamail in guarding your privacy