[Ham-Computers] netscape vs ie

Wed, 08 Jan 2003 16:32:36 -0800

I use both. Presently I am using Internet Explorer version 6.0, Outlook Express
version 6.0 and Netscape 4.76.

I prefer Netscape, especially the email section. However both systems are good.

Netscape browser has the email program integrated, while you must bring up
Internet Explorer and Outlook Express separately. This is your personal
preference. It makes no difference to me.

Browsing:

There are sites that won't work with Netscape, and a few that won't work with
Internet Explorer.
Both programs do excellent jobs in my opinion.
Netscape seems to be more user friendly to me.
Netscape is not integrated into the operating system, again a plus or minus
depending on your opinion.
If I want to copy data from a web site into "Word", Internet Explorer will copy
and retain or make a table formatting of the data. That is many cases is a plus,
however the process is much slower than the unformatted data copy/paste from
Netscape.

Email:

Outlook express will handle multiple email accounts. Netscape 4.76 will not. I
understand the latter version will, but I have not personally checked that.

Outlook Express will handle items like "Stationery". Again my older version of
Netscape will not.

Outlook Express tends to hide header data a lot more than Netscape. Again this is
a plus or minus depending on your personal preference. Header data, like full name
and email address are readily displayed in Netscape. To view such data on IE
requires right clicking and using the properties button.

I dislike the "small" sub window approach that IE uses for addressing etc. Again
personal preference.

In Netscape I can start typing an email recipient using first name, last name, or
nickname and Netscape will search for a match across all three at the same time. I
cannot get IE to do that.

IE hides the availability of BCC email addressing until you force yourself into
the address book. Netscape does not. This may or may not be important to you.

Overall:
My preference is for Netscape because more data is readily available faster with
fewer keystrokes. However the useful data density on the screen is higher in
Netscape. Again a plus or minus depending on you.

As on fellow wrote, both programs are large and complicated. My personal opinion
is they have to be large and complicated to do all the various tasks I expect out
of a modern Browser and Email programs. The modern program is expected by me an
many others to handle a huge number of file formats, and allow you to do major
complicated formatting on your email outputs.

Also I wish to dispel the myth that the programs cannot co-exist peacefully on the
same computer. Many times I run all three simultaneously.

This is a few of my observations.

Rolly

Paul Mooney wrote:

> On Tuesday 07 January 2003 10:50 pm, Jimmy Bill ! wrote:
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> > I'm curious on the pro's and con's of netscape vs internet explorer
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> > Jim
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> Hi Jim,
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> to my mind, both are overstuffed leading to poor performance. My preference is
> one of the smaller, faster browsers -I usually use Opera on both Linux &
> Window$. Opera can also be figured so that can masquerade as IE, Netscape, or
> Mozilla
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