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So long, Nutscrape
I've been using Netscape 4.7 for a long time now, all the while knowing I shouldn't. It mainly had to do with being familiar with the way the browser behaved and wanting to continue my own particular style of browsing. Unfortunately, this also meant being thoroughly familiar with the buggy Javascript engine that enjoyed freezing the whole browser up so completely that it couldn't just be closed, it had to be killed from the task manager. And then there are all the HTML rendering engine problems, such as its inability to set frames to the exact size specified or its.... anyway, I'll just say it had lots of problems. It was mostly inertia that stopped me from going to IE completely, plus it also lacked some of the things I could do in Netscape.

Now, though, I've switched to Mozilla, which has been a wonderful change. The functionality is basically that of Netscape Navigator 4, but it actually works.... well, mostly. It's a 1.1 version, so there are still a few bugs, but I haven't encountered anything on the level of Netscape 4.7's problems. The tabbed browsing looks very interesting (you can dock different pages into the same window, letting you hit tabs to switch between them, similar to the tabbed worksheets in an Excel document), though I haven't made a lot of use of it yet.

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