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Title: Netscape VS Mozilla
Post by: GPT on September 15, 2004, 12:49:58 PM

What's the diffrence between a pc and an Amiga? :-?
Fold ya!!! :lol:  :-P  :-D

Just kiding we all know the answer to that, seriously...


What is the diffrence between Netscape and Mozilla?
Why should I use Mozilla instead of Netscape?
Let's say Mozilla FireFox to make it easy.  

Title: Re: Netscape VS Mozilla
Post by: KennyR on September 15, 2004, 12:59:07 PM

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What is the diffrence between Netscape and Mozilla?

Different banner and GUI skin. Seriously, that's about all there is. Netscape is just Mozilla rebadged, although not kept as up to date.

Title: Re: Netscape VS Mozilla
Post by: mikeymike on September 15, 2004, 01:48:34 PM

Netscape occasionally gets a new version number, based on a relatively old version of Mozilla.  Netscape also contains AOL bloat.

Mozilla contains a browser, email client, newsreader, IRC client and HTML editor.

Mozilla Firefox is just a web browser, using the HTML rendering codebase of Mozilla.  It has some features Mozilla's browser hasn't, and vice versa.

Mozilla Thunderbird is just an email client, based on the email client from Mozilla.  Mozilla's email client has been effectively discontinued, all the mailnews dev (pretty much) goes into Thunderbird now.  Thunderbird has many more features, and Moz mailnews is desperately lacking in places.

I use Firefox 0.9.3 and Thunderbird 0.7.3.  IMO they are very nice.

Title: Re: Netscape VS Mozilla
Post by: Ni72ous on September 15, 2004, 03:04:33 PM

I think netscape has slightly diffferent menus containing netscape related features and links, not 100% sure though.

Title: Re: Netscape VS Mozilla
Post by: Will-i-am on September 15, 2004, 03:18:46 PM

Hey, I was under the impression that it went like this...first came Mozilla which split into Netscape and Mozilla, then Netscape bellied up under the assault from IE (gag, puke) whereupon the Mozilla crew took it back and now we just have Mozilla. I don't know...I'm using Mozilla 1.7 quite happily. A buddy of mine suggested it when I told him I really liked Netscape rather than the afore mentioned IE POS. I haven't really noticed any difference betwen Netscape and Mozila except some menus(e.g. TOOLS) are more expansive in Mozilla and of course the customization capabilities of Mozilla are fantastic.

Title: Re: Netscape VS Mozilla
Post by: mikeymike on September 15, 2004, 03:39:35 PM

Ahem.  Netscape 7.2 (http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp).

PS - I'm not recommending it.

Title: Re: Netscape VS Mozilla
Post by: blobrana on September 15, 2004, 04:20:00 PM

 Ahem. Mozilla 1.8 Alpha 3  (http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.8a3/mozilla-win32-1.8a3.zip).

PS - I'm  recommending it.

Hum,
i just downloaded Mozilla 1.8 alpha 4 (http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/nightly/latest/mozilla-win32-installer.exe)...