New Netscape (based on FireFox)

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Vrodok the Troll schreef:
Perhaps AOL would *really* "see the light" if they'd revive the 4.x.x
series.
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You mean: going back to proprietary, non-conformant HTML & bad CSS
support?
 
Perhaps AOL would *really* "see the light" if they'd revive the 4.x.x series.
Last "real" version of Netscape was 4.8[0] (although some might argue is was,
in actuality, 4.78).
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I would use a Netscape 4.x, even more if it used parts of the Gecko
rendering engine (the same that Mozilla and Firefox uses). I simply liked
a browser that was good enough on its time.

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Perhaps AOL would *really* "see the light" if they'd revive the 4.x.x series.
Last "real" version of Netscape was 4.8[0] (although some might argue is was,
in actuality, 4.78).
Click to expand...

I would use a Netscape 4.x, even more if it used parts of the Gecko
rendering engine (the same that Mozilla and Firefox uses). I simply liked
a browser that was good enough on its time.

[]s
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One thing Mozilla/Firefox has *never* managed to do (unlike Netscape 4.x.x), is
having the Bookmarks drop down, *instantly*, when clicked upon. Waiting 30
seconds to a minute (!!!) for the Bookmarks to show themselves is not my idea
of a happy day.
 
One thing Mozilla/Firefox has *never* managed to do (unlike
Netscape 4.x.x), is having the Bookmarks drop down, *instantly*,
when clicked upon. Waiting 30 seconds to a minute (!!!) for the
Bookmarks to show themselves is not my idea of a happy day.
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30 seconds to a minute? Sheesh. Mine takes all of 1.5 seconds.
 
Vrodok said:
One thing Mozilla/Firefox has *never* managed to do (unlike Netscape 4.x.x), is
having the Bookmarks drop down, *instantly*, when clicked upon. Waiting 30
seconds to a minute (!!!) for the Bookmarks to show themselves is not my idea
of a happy day.
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What??? My FF BM's have always shown instantly. From 0.3 on...
 
Vrodok the Troll wrote:
[SNIP]
One thing Mozilla/Firefox has *never* managed to do (unlike Netscape 4.x.x), is
having the Bookmarks drop down, *instantly*, when clicked upon. Waiting 30
seconds to a minute (!!!) for the Bookmarks to show themselves is not my idea
of a happy day.
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Using Moz 1.7.3 on XP Pro, one an 800MHz Duron, t'other a 2.8GHz
PentiumIV, bookmarks drop down almost instantly.

Add in the NS 7.0 that I'm using to post this running on a SUN Ultra 10
under Solaris 7 which takes a 15-20 seconds for the _first_ display, but
subsequently is instant.

Your machine may be flakey...

Cheers,
Gary B-)
 
My FF BM's show instantly, as well, in the previous two beta releases
and now in v1.0.

Daze
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Then again, it might be due to the fact of my Bookmarks.html reaching around
800 Kb.
 
I had the same problem until I worked out why.

In IE, I had bookmarked several directories including a network shared
drive. Now it seems that when firefox imported them from IE it either
imported every subdirectory under the bookmarked directory or by default it
seems to follow subdirectories. So, every time I clicked on the bookmarks,
it would try and validate the subdirecties or do something involving the
directory.

So, I simply deleted the directory and this made my bookmarks very quick.

Now I just have to wait for the googlebar for firefox to be fixed up. It is
extremely slow when you add more words to the search field when highlighting
is on and you have a large webpage open (large being about 100 results or so
returned by google).







Vrodok the Troll said:
Perhaps AOL would *really* "see the light" if they'd revive the 4.x.x
series.
Last "real" version of Netscape was 4.8[0] (although some might argue is
was,
in actuality, 4.78).
Click to expand...

I would use a Netscape 4.x, even more if it used parts of the Gecko
rendering engine (the same that Mozilla and Firefox uses). I simply liked
a browser that was good enough on its time.

[]s
Click to expand...

One thing Mozilla/Firefox has *never* managed to do (unlike Netscape
4.x.x), is
having the Bookmarks drop down, *instantly*, when clicked upon. Waiting 30
seconds to a minute (!!!) for the Bookmarks to show themselves is not my
idea
of a happy day.
Click to expand...
 
Vrodok the Troll said:
Perhaps AOL would *really* "see the light" if they'd revive the 4.x.x
series.
Last "real" version of Netscape was 4.8[0] (although some might argue is
was,
in actuality, 4.78).

I would use a Netscape 4.x, even more if it used parts of the Gecko
rendering engine (the same that Mozilla and Firefox uses). I simply liked
a browser that was good enough on its time.

[]s
Click to expand...

One thing Mozilla/Firefox has *never* managed to do (unlike Netscape
4.x.x), is
having the Bookmarks drop down, *instantly*, when clicked upon. Waiting 30
seconds to a minute (!!!) for the Bookmarks to show themselves is not my
idea
of a happy day.
Click to expand...


I had the same problem until I worked out why.

In IE, I had bookmarked several directories including a network shared
drive. Now it seems that when firefox imported them from IE it either
imported every subdirectory under the bookmarked directory or by default it
seems to follow subdirectories. So, every time I clicked on the bookmarks,
it would try and validate the subdirecties or do something involving the
directory.

So, I simply deleted the directory and this made my bookmarks very quick.

Now I just have to wait for the googlebar for firefox to be fixed up. It is
extremely slow when you add more words to the search field when highlighting
is on and you have a large webpage open (large being about 100 results or so
returned by google).
Click to expand...

Hmmm. Thank you :-)
 
Vrodok said:
Then again, it might be due to the fact of my Bookmarks.html reaching around
800 Kb.
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In Firebird, than Firefox (093), I noticed exactly what you did, my BM file was
also large. I cut the size of the file to about 400 KB, now it only takes about 4
clicks to open. It never opened instantly like Netscape 4.79 did with the same big
BM file. In the old days, on a Netscape forum, one of the "MVP" types mentioned he
used a 15000 bookmark file in 4.79 with no problems.

I will have fun later going back to the other saved bookmarks and merging them
back into my main file. Until FF fixes this issue, large bookmark file size will
continue to be a problem.

But I no longer miss Net 4.79, FF is a much better browser.

Mike Sa
 
In Firebird, than Firefox (093), I noticed exactly what you did, my BM file was
also large. I cut the size of the file to about 400 KB, now it only takes about 4
clicks to open. It never opened instantly like Netscape 4.79 did with the same big
BM file. In the old days, on a Netscape forum, one of the "MVP" types mentioned he
used a 15000 bookmark file in 4.79 with no problems.

I will have fun later going back to the other saved bookmarks and merging them
back into my main file. Until FF fixes this issue, large bookmark file size will
continue to be a problem.
Click to expand...

Thank you. It clears up a lot.
 
On 17 Nov 2004 22:21:16 -0600, Vrodok the Troll

One thing Mozilla/Firefox has *never* managed to do (unlike Netscape 4.x.x), is
having the Bookmarks drop down, *instantly*, when clicked upon. Waiting 30
seconds to a minute (!!!) for the Bookmarks to show themselves is not my idea
of a happy day.
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Agreed. I have the same situation. :-)

Regards, John.

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Vrodok the Troll [[email protected]] wrote to us:
One thing Mozilla/Firefox has *never* managed to do (unlike Netscape 4.x.x), is
having the Bookmarks drop down, *instantly*, when clicked upon. Waiting 30
seconds to a minute (!!!) for the Bookmarks to show themselves is not my idea
of a happy day.
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My bookmarks open in ~2 seconds.

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