"NS upgrade" question

I still run NS 7.2 with WIN98SE on a P3, and it's all fine. My wife's 
P4, xp, laptop is starting to give some General Fault errors re: 
netscape.exe, when trying to open some popular sites, so I'm thinking 
that the best solution may be for me to upgrade her NS 7.2, instead of 
trying to get 7.2 working properly, but what would be the next
"logical" 
version to choose for an upgrade? The "functionality" of 7.2 was fine
as 
our needs for NS are limited in terms of "features", etc. For her
sake, 
I'd like to keep as close to the "look and feel" of 7.2 as possible.

Any opinions are welcome, as I haven't been following the discussions on 
the subsequent versions of NS.

Jack Sandweiss wrote:
> I still run NS 7.2 with WIN98SE on a P3, and it's all fine. My wife's 
> P4, xp, laptop is starting to give some General Fault errors re: 
> netscape.exe, when trying to open some popular sites,

we have to know exactly what the error message says, and does it occurs 
on all sites or some.  If some, then you'd have to post a link or two so 
someone can go and check it out.

>  so I'm thinking 
> that the best solution may be for me to upgrade her NS 7.2, 

upgrade to what? Net 7.2 is the last version of that line.  There is 
nothing after that, except for Net 8.x, but that version is not an 
upgrade, as its a browser only.  There are rumours that a newer Net 7.x 
might be on the horizon.  But as I said, thats a rumour and when it will 
come out, nobody knows.

> instead of 
> trying to get 7.2 working properly, but what would be the next
"logical" 
> version to choose for an upgrade? The "functionality" of 7.2 was
fine as 
> our needs for NS are limited in terms of "features", etc. For her
sake, 
> I'd like to keep as close to the "look and feel" of 7.2 as
possible.
> 
> Any opinions are welcome, as I haven't been following the discussions on 
> the subsequent versions of NS.
> 
> Jack

Actually, there is sort of an upgrade.  Its called SeaMonkey: 
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/

Let me tell you the story.  Net 7.2 is based on a program called Mozilla 
Suite 1.7.2.  The only difference was Net had all the Netscape/AOL 
addons and bonuses.  Net 7.2 died on the block and Moz went on to 
version 1.7.13, then the Moz people decided to drop the Suite program. 
However, a few of the Moz developers, users, and others didn't want the 
Suite program to die, so they formed the SeaMonkey council and came out 
with SeaMonkey.  SM picks up where Moz left off.

Basically, if you know how to use Net, then you can use SM.  There is 
really no learning curve.  Whatever you can do in Net, you can do in SM, 
they're almost the same program.  Furthermore, SM can pick up your Net 
7.2 data, mail, bookmarks, passwords, etc, and start using them. The 
reason you should upgrade to SM 1.1 because is years ahead of Net 7.2, 
with lots of bug and security fixes and many other fixes.

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Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:

> Jack Sandweiss wrote:
> 
>> I still run NS 7.2 with WIN98SE on a P3, and it's all fine. My wife's 
>> P4, xp, laptop is starting to give some General Fault errors re: 
>> netscape.exe, when trying to open some popular sites,
> 
> 
> we have to know exactly what the error message says, and does it occurs 
> on all sites or some.  If some, then you'd have to post a link or two so 
> someone can go and check it out.
> 
>>  so I'm thinking that the best solution may be for me to upgrade her 
>> NS 7.2, 
> 
> 
> upgrade to what? Net 7.2 is the last version of that line.  There is 
> nothing after that, except for Net 8.x, but that version is not an 
> upgrade, as its a browser only.  There are rumours that a newer Net 7.x 
> might be on the horizon.  But as I said, thats a rumour and when it will 
> come out, nobody knows.
> 
>> instead of trying to get 7.2 working properly, but what would be the 
>> next "logical" version to choose for an upgrade? The
"functionality" 
>> of 7.2 was fine as our needs for NS are limited in terms of 
>> "features", etc. For her sake, I'd like to keep as close to
the "look 
>> and feel" of 7.2 as possible.
>>
>> Any opinions are welcome, as I haven't been following the discussions 
>> on the subsequent versions of NS.
>>
>> Jack
> 
> 
> Actually, there is sort of an upgrade.  Its called SeaMonkey: 
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/
> 
> Let me tell you the story.  Net 7.2 is based on a program called Mozilla 
> Suite 1.7.2.  The only difference was Net had all the Netscape/AOL 
> addons and bonuses.  Net 7.2 died on the block and Moz went on to 
> version 1.7.13, then the Moz people decided to drop the Suite program. 
> However, a few of the Moz developers, users, and others didn't want the 
> Suite program to die, so they formed the SeaMonkey council and came out 
> with SeaMonkey.  SM picks up where Moz left off.
> 
> Basically, if you know how to use Net, then you can use SM.  There is 
> really no learning curve.  Whatever you can do in Net, you can do in SM, 
> they're almost the same program.  Furthermore, SM can pick up your Net 
> 7.2 data, mail, bookmarks, passwords, etc, and start using them. The 
> reason you should upgrade to SM 1.1 because is years ahead of Net 7.2, 
> with lots of bug and security fixes and many other fixes.
> 

Peter-

Thanks so much for the VERY informative post. As you can tell, I've been 
out of touch, but did try out Seamonkey when it first came out on my 
Win98 computer. I've been using NS, ever since it was kinda of a 
renaming of mosaic, etc. We'll give seamonkey a try, and your opinions 
about the increased security, etc. are very much appreciated. I don't 
have to get to this group often anymore, but I've ALWAYS received a 
quick, to the point, and courteous reply.

Many thanks,

Jack

PS: Perhaps, I'll put it back on my win98 machine, as I don't recall any 
problems, but it was very new, and still being reviewed, so I stayed 

Jack Sandweiss wrote:
> PS: Perhaps, I'll put it back on my win98 machine, as I don't recall any 
> problems, but it was very new, and still being reviewed, so I stayed 
> with 7.2.
SM 1.1 works very well with win98, as thats I OS I have, so I should 
know.  But future versions, I think starting with SM 1.5, they will be 
dropping win98, winME, winNT and a few others.  I'm not looking forward 
to that.

-- 
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