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People begin to use more IE, becasue lazines and that IE was bundled with Windows. Netscape always was better that IE.
by Zardoz84 9y ago
People begin to use more IE, becasue lazines and that IE was bundled with Windows. Netscape always was better that IE.
- dep_b 9y agoNetscape 4 versus IE5 or 6 was pretty bad. They got stalled a few years while rewriting their browser. Firefox was better than IE almost from the very first alpha tests.
- bigbugbag 9y agoNetscape 4 was facing IE4 not IE5 or 6. firefox was initially named phoenix and it was made as a workaround the performances issue of mozilla suite by removing everything unneeded to run a browser. Except mozilla suite fixed its performance issues way before phoenix was ready for prime time.
- dep_b 9y agoTrue about IE6, but IE5 was already out before Netscape 6 came out. Funny that the real 1.0 for Firefox came years later.
- vetinari 9y agoNetscape 6 was the "new one", with Gecko, XUL and stuff. Firefox itself used to be an alternative - the main browser was Seamonkey, that included mail client, chat client and kitchen sink, just like the original Netscape did. Firefox started later as a lightweight alternative, just the browser.
- CamperBob2 9y agoNetscape always was better that IE. No, it wasn't. Were you there when NS4 came out?
- vetinari 9y agoDepends what sites you used. Compared NN4 and IE4, NN4 was better. Compared to later IEs, IE were better. Except for IE5 for Mac. That one was weird, it's CSS implementation was best from all the available browsers. But when you opened Slashdot (or another table heavy site), boy, you quickly switched back to Netscape.