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Originally posted by ZrednaZ
Maybe it's like Firefox, only without the crashing?
I always have defended Netscape exactly because of this reason, at least from my own experience (see old browser war threads
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I rarely got crashes, while others reported this site or that site would crash firefox...
I dunno if it still is true, but the difference between Netscape and Firefox was (is?) mostly that Firefox is open-source and worked upon by many people and communities. Netscape is closed-source and made by a dedicated set of people. I always thought of Netscape as the example of how open-source software isn't always automatically good. Netscape often had (has?) fixes for stuff which is still buggy in FireFox. With Netscape they first make sure no (known) bugs exist, before adding a feature. With Firefox it was (is?) often the other way around. The only thing I see people who actually have used Netscape (instead of hearsay) comlaining about is that it looks old-fashion. I could care less; better old-fashion than buggy with all flashy skins.
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