11-29-2004, 04:41 PM
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Jack Burton 
Join Date: November 10, 2001
Location: Bathurst & Orange, in constant flux
Age: 38
Posts: 5,452
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Quote:
Originally posted by Azeral:
Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox all came from the same orginal browser design so the are just variants where people remove things or add things to their liking.
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To a point, yes. They run on the same engine - Gecko (but then, so do K-Meleon, Epiphony, Konquerer, Galeon, Nautilus...), but that doesn't make them the same browser. Netscape, like a few of the others, runs on a different front-end. or, at least, different widget sets. It doesn't have the ability to theme beyond their barely-differing default two (so you're stuck with the but ugly icons that take up a quarter of the screen), you cannot opt to have smaller icons, you can't change which icons are showing... and the Bookmark this Page functionality doesn't seem to work. Netscape implements MS ActiveX technology, which is the cause of alot of IE's problems aswell, and they don't seem to add in the security fixes that Mozilla come out with for the non-ActiveX flaws (like a couple that have been unpatched since 2002, that are fixed in both Seamonkey and Firefox).
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