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]

I think Mozilla imports the Netscape disk cache --- but Netscape 4.x corrupts its disk cache on a regular basis, so what got imported may be rather broken.

Also, if you've used Netscape 6.x, it is (not "is descended from") Mozilla and it will use the same configuration files etc. And if you install a recent Mozilla on a machine which formerly had Netscape 6.0 on it it may encounter leftover configuration files from the older install and get rather confused.

[steven.livejournal.com]

I was glad to see someone write about their experience with Mozilla. I just started using Opera at work, because IE took forever to display certain pages -- search results, for example, like on aa.com. I'm always open to trying other things, and I used to be a Netscape devotee.