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Old Netscape users will find this a familiar sight.
Like many of you I began began life using the Netscape
browser -- what got et up by Microsoft's bully boys. Before
releasing Firefox, Mozilla was keeping Netscape alive, as sort of a
community nerd thing I never quite understood. Finally they
rereleased it as SeaMonkey.
Why Mozilla later did Firefox as a separate browser is beyond my ken, and
interest. Anyway, since I'd never quit using Netscape E-mail, and
Composer (Netscape had a HTML editor called Composer) I've kept
it, and later SeaMonkey, up to date.
Because I use the SeaMonkey e-mail (as well as Thunderbird), any time
y'all send me a link it's auto opened in SeaMonkey's browser, which
still has the look and feel of Netscape. I copy useful
information/urls over to Firefox. A few weeks ago I decided to
actually use the SeaMonkey browser, just a little each day.
Many, but not all of the Firefox add-ons are available for SeaMonkey,
including all those I find indispensable.
Guess what? I find myself going to it more and more, and just now
realized I've had it running all day. It's faster and smoother (thanks to an
add-on called Smooth Wheel, which by god I see is also available in Firefox) than Firefox. You may want to take a look at SeaMonkey, if only for Composer. Yes, you get the whole suite but don't have to use them all.
FWIW.
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When I crawled out of the womb, they gave me a Mac and a copy of Mosaic and said, "Go browse".
ReplyDeleteI remember using Netscape for a while, but it was hell having to download the whole thing through a 56K modem whenever I wanted an update.
Nowadays, I mostly use Firefox with (let me see here) Adblock, NoScript, and Customize Google, but I sometimes use Camino when I can't get a site to play by MY rules. Video won't play or something like that.
Usually I close the tab and say "It wasn't that important." If it really is that important, I try Camino. It usually works, but I don't use it for day-to-day browsing, because it doesn't have extensions like Firefox.
It has Google toolbar incorporated? I will use the first browser that ignores google's evilness, but I don't know of one.
ReplyDeleteI am quickly making the switch to Ubuntu, and that uses Evolution for email which is not unlike Thunderbird.
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