Author: Rover Posted on: 5/29/2000 Discuss: In the forums

...Walks the Earth Since first jumping into Linux 3 years ago I’ve always hated the fact that I had to use Netscape to browse the web. Having HTML experience turned me off of Netscape and all of its incompatibilities. Then I heard about this browser that was based on Netscape code but wasn’t Netscape. I was intrigued, especially since there were versions for most of the OSes available today, Linux, Windows, Mac, OpenVMS, HPUX, FreeBSD, BSD, AIX, Solaris and Tru64 Unix. Another advantage over MSIE and Netscape was its size, a measly 5.1MB. After downloading the ‘mozilla-win32-installer-M15’ executable I installed the browser with out any problems. At first glance ‘Mozilla Seamonkey’ looks nothing like Netscape or MSIE but underneath you’ll see Netscape-like pulldown menus. Mozilla looked most like Netscape in the ‘Preferences’ dialog box, with an almost uncanny resemblance the options available were also nearly an exact match. The browser has a clean interface but very little modification can be done to it. I’m sure as the browser matures we will see more and more options become available. For the most part the browser was very stable and I only experienced lock-ups when I maximized the browser while a page was still loading. If you surf over to Mozilla.org you can get the complete list of known bugs which at this writing was too extensive to place here. The one bug that bothered me the most was Cascading Style Sheet support because LittleWhiteDog.com uses CSS, it wouldn’t display them correctly. On the up side the programmers put a bug reporting tool right into the browser so users can report any problems they come across furthering the advancement of the software. Mozilla is definitely a work in progress but if the Mozilla team continues with the way they are doing things I foresee a great browser in the future. I’m glad this dinosaur didn’t go extinct.

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Published on: 2004-02-22 (3661 reads)