Mozilla

[cellio]

At a coworker's suggestion, I just installed Mozilla on my machine here at work. (Until now my primary browser has been Netscape, though I sometimes use IE too.) I was pleasantly surprised to see that Mozilla found my Netscape preferences, bookmarks, etc and adopted them. I do hope, however, that it is not silently using the same files as Netscape. Yes, I am aware that Netscape is descended from Mozilla originally; I'd been under the impression that they had diverged and are not incompatable.

I had some initial problems with Mozilla first not seeing and then not loading my home page. Netscape was running at the time, but exiting both browsers and then firing up Mozilla didn't fix it. Flushing the disk cache fixed it -- but there shouldn't have been a Mozilla disk cache yet, except for its default home page.

One thing that bugs me about Netscape -- new in version 6.2 -- is that entry into forms (specifically textbuffers) is sometimes wonky. My only Mozilla experiment thus far is this journal entry, but so far it seems to be better in that regard. I haven't noticed any other differences in behavior yet.

Comments

[geekosaur]

True, but they were breaking things as recently as 1.0.0pre2 -> 1.0release :)

[johno.livejournal.com]

True, and there are still a few things broken in Mozilla 1.0.

However, it still stands that the Navigator 6.X releases were built on older even more broken Mozilla code bases.

I strongly recomend friends who like Navigator over IE, to try Mozilla. Much more stable and standards complient in many ways.