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    Darius Xym

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  1. Review - Netscape Navigator for Linux

    6.1 (Aug 8, 2001)

    The mail/news component has received many needed improvements since I commented on problems in 6.0. While I still miss thread watching (which is apparantly implemented but not visible!), the mail/news is now very usable and recommended. The rest of the browser also runs much faster, being more polished and robust. Simply put, there is nothing out there to match NS (or Moz) for industrial rendering and browsing experience. Konqueror and Opera don't even come close to it for rendering quality or features.

  2. Review - Netscape Navigator for Windows

    6.1 (Aug 8, 2001)

    People who diss 6.1 claiming it's just a tweaked 6.0 obviously haven't tried it. It's an extremely good browser that is fast and stable. Give it a spin, or its stable mate Mozilla. Other points in its favour are the small download size and the fact it doesn't replace half of your OS when you install a new version.

    Both NS 6.1 and Moz 0.9.3 are kick a** browsers, easily comparable to IE and *much* better at rendering content than Opera.

  3. Review - Mozilla for Windows

    0.9.1 Beta (Jun 8, 2001)

    Simply put, this is a very, very good browser. While it still feels beta quality in some areas, it is pretty much feature complete, stable and fast. Mail/news is great too though I still miss some features of NS4.x such as being able to search the newsgroup list

    As a beta there is still room for improvement. Memory consumption is still high, startup is too slow (except in turbo mode) and there is some very slow memory leakage.

    All in all a very positive sign of the shape of things to come! Netscape 6.x can't be far off now.

  4. Review - Netscape Navigator for Windows

    6.0 Final (Nov 14, 2000)

    NS 6.0 works great on all the platforms I tried it on. Yes, it has some flaws, but it is by far the best renderer I've seen for any browser. It also has the added bonus that you can install (and uninstall) it without ripping out half of your operating system or rebooting.

  5. Review - Netscape Navigator for Linux

    6.0 Final (Nov 14, 2000)

    Jeez - imagine reviewing a program for an OS you don't have (like one bozo on this list).

    So onto my review. I had a problem with the installer becoming non-responsive during download so I grabbed the XPI files manually and stuck them in an xpi subdir. Once I did this installation ran smoothly.

    Once running, you're presented with a very nice browser indeed. It's a little slow to get going but it's much, much better than anything else there at rendering pages. I don't rate the email/news part very highly but as a browser it's top notch.

  6. Comment - Analysts: Studios will gain from HD DVD's exit, but consumers' won't

    6.0 Final (Feb 23, 2008 - 11:21 AM)

    Betanews has posted a couple of highly bizarre pro-HD DVD articles recently. Not sure why but it's kind weird to see this fud long after it no longer matters.

  7. Comment - For 1.3 million HD DVD customers, what's next?

    6.0 Final (Feb 19, 2008 - 3:16 PM)

    Ho ho ho. This is a joke article right? On the day Toshiba says the format is dead, on the day that the last major studios departed, after weeks of bad news from one retailer, studio, distributor after another you claim the format is not obsolete?

    Of course it's obsolete. It's as dead as a dodo. As for CH-DVD, talk about clutching at straws. Who says that it will be sufficiently compatible to assure support for existing players? Who says there will be foreign language movies to watch, or that they'll have foreign language tracks, or that they won't be butchered by Chinese censors? Who actually wants to order disks from China anyway? That's even assuming CH-DVD does take off. I can as easily see CH-DVD going the way of HD-DVD if consumers and manufacturers decide there is more reason to support Blu Ray no matter where the royalties end up.

  8. Comment - Netscape Browser 8.0 Beta Goes Live

    6.0 Final (Mar 3, 2005 - 6:41 PM)

    Firefox has a great browsing experience because the UI is clean and simple. So this branded version decides to double the screen clutter, brand it with a disgusting theme and generally remove all the things which make Firefox so pleasant to use. The oddest part is the IE integration. Why???? If Netscape (or should I say AOL) has problems with some sites, it should be putting a bit of evangelism pressure on those sites to produce standards compliant code. If they did that instead of hacks like this, perhaps they wouldn't be locked into IE all these years. What they certainly shouldn't be doing is creating Frankenbrowser which is sometimes IE, sometimes Gecko and generally confusing the hell out of the user.

    D-. The underlying engine is great, but this app isn't.

  9. Comment - Microsoft Shares Windows XP Holiday Packs

    6.0 Final (Dec 12, 2002 - 6:06 PM)

    If the default skins in XP & OS X are so great, why keep it closed? If other people's skins are going to be inferior there should be no fear from either Microsoft or Apple that users will switch or have a preference in the matter is there?

  10. Comment - Microsoft Shares Windows XP Holiday Packs

    6.0 Final (Dec 10, 2002 - 7:04 PM)

    What is it with people like Microsoft & Apple? They go to the effort of making their operating systems skinnable/themable and then don't bother to freely release the information required for third parties and enthusiasts to skin them.

    Is it any wonder then that GTK, KDE, Mozilla, WindowMaker, E WinAmp and other 'open' skinning formats have hundreds of skins to choose from and OS X & XP can count theirs on one hand.