warren c. e. austin
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Location: Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
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Many visitors here may be aware that I've been a beta-tester for the Netscape series of Browsers, with my having begun with version 5.0beta in early 1999, continuing on with the Browser Programme's transition from Netscape and the emergence of the Mozilla Project, and like many users world-wide suffering through versions 6.0 through to and including 6.2.3. In addition since November, 2000, I've been one of many volunteer peer-to-peer support advisors in a number of the Netcape Newsgroups.
With the release of Netscape 7.0PRC1 in May of 2002, the Browser was finally getting there, but had not quite yet made it; this position being further solidified with the release of "Final" 7.0 code in late August, 2002.
Folks, I'm delighted to now be able to advise, and recommend, that with the availability of the latest small-point revision, Netscape 7.0.2 (based upon Mozilla 1.0.2), that Netscape is now ready for "prime-time"!
Those of you who, like myself, may be particularly security and privacy paranoid will be enthralled and enchanted with many user-definable controls embedded in Netscape which provide the end-user with capabilities to discretely (on a site-by-site basis), or globally, accept or suppress all manner of "Pop-up windows", "Cookies and Web-bots", "Graphics/Images", "Sounds" and Scripts (whether ActiveX, JavaScript, Perl, CGI, and otherwise), and for the first time since Mosaic was released by the University of Indiana back in 1993, be able to truly say that you are once again surfing the way you want to, and not as you have been told you have to.
Two of the most desirable features of Netscape are its "w3.org" standard's compatibility, which ensures that as the "World-Wide-Web" evolves the Browser will in turn always be in compliance with emerging technologies, and the Mail module's capablility of handling multiple e-Mail accounts whether ISP/Domain-name or IMAP/Web-mail based, with the sole exception being those of Microsoft's "hotmail.com"; all others, and any number of them may be handled directly through the one mail-client, with assurance of never again suffering at the hands of e-Mail born virus' and worms.
The "Gecko" rendering engine, the heart of the Mozilla/Netscape Project has been ported to all of most widely used platforms available today, and in the recent past. These include amongst others MS-DOS/Windows or OS/2 based, UNIX/Linix, MacOS8/OSX, Alpha, AIX, Solaris, Open VMS, AS390/400, and others.
A typical Windows End-user could be running a minimum of an Intel 80x86 platfrom, 486-DX4 133 MHz and higher CPU, with a minimum of 64 Mb RAM, although a Pentium I - 233 MHz or higher CPU, with 128 Mb RAM is currently optimally suggested.
For the advance user and more technically inclined, I recommend the actual Mozilla releases of Mozilla/Netscape "Gecko" (currently at 1.3, and are usually at least one full-point release ahead of the End-user Packages), which are available here:
http://www.mozilla.org/
For all other users I recommend either the Netscape "End-user" Packages available from here:
English Language 7.0.2 "Full" Installer
ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape7/english/7.02/windows/win32/sea/NSSetupB.exe
All 7.0.x Alternative Language releases
ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape7/
Or one of the many alternative End-user Developments which will be found here:
Mozilla
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/
Beonex
http://www.beonex.com/communicator/
Chimera
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/chimera/
Galeon
http://galeon.sourceforge.net/
Ke-Melon
http://www.kmeleon.org
Phoenix
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/releases.html
Skipstone
http://muhri.net/skipstone/
Simple, and easily installed, "Add-on" modules are available to enable the sending and receiving of encrypted e-Mail, and other files, add Calendaring functionality, add Pop-up "Ticker-style" NewsAlerts, add User Agent Spoofing, and host of others, with more being developed with each release, and may be found here:
http://www.mozdev.org/categories/index.html
The few I routinely install and user are as follows:
Advance Preferences Dialogues
http://preferential.mozdev.org/
Calendar
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/
Diggler
http://diggler.mozdev.org/
Engmail
http://enigmail.mozdev.org/
NewsAlert
http://newsalert.mozdev.org/
User Agent Spoofer Toolbar
http://uabar.mozdev.org/
Warren C. E. Austin
Toronto, Canada
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