Blinky the Shark wrote:
Jean B. wrote:

cybercat wrote:
I'm trying it out. It's pretty good so far. Nice, user-friendly
interface, high functionality.
** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **
Good to hear, since when I have my new PC, I want to try that. Is it at
all like the old Netscape was?

It's basically Firefox and Thunderbird, cojoined for some obscure reason.


I guess I'd have to see whether there's any advantage to them then,
since I am currently using Firefox and Thunderbird. I MISS the old
Netscape.

--
Jean b.

notbob wrote:
On 2008-06-10, Blinky the Shark wrote:

It's basically Firefox and Thunderbird, cojoined for some obscure reason.

....but without the crippling overhead and reduced control. What happened
to the tools cookie manager? What? You're too stupid to be in control of
cookies?

nb

What lacks the cookie manager? I rather like that. Of course, I can
use cookie pal, if it still functions.

--
Jean B.

"Jean B." wrote in message
...
notbob wrote:
On 2008-06-10, Blinky the Shark wrote:

It's basically Firefox and Thunderbird, cojoined for some obscure
reason.

....but without the crippling overhead and reduced control. What
happened
to the tools cookie manager? What? You're too stupid to be in control
of
cookies? nb

What lacks the cookie manager? I rather like that. Of course, I can use
cookie pal, if it still functions.

--

Cookie Pal! Does he wear a little hat and gloves and a big smile and bring
you cookies whenever you need them????

"Jean B." wrote:

Not so sure about the OE part. Still, I'll give it a try. Do I recall
correctly that it is a suite, and thus includes a newsreader?


What is "OE" like about it is, you can have your newsgroups and your
mail in the same interface.

cybercat wrote:
"Jean B." wrote in message
...
notbob wrote:
On 2008-06-10, Blinky the Shark wrote:

It's basically Firefox and Thunderbird, cojoined for some obscure
reason.
....but without the crippling overhead and reduced control. What
happened
to the tools cookie manager? What? You're too stupid to be in control
of
cookies? nb
What lacks the cookie manager? I rather like that. Of course, I can use
cookie pal, if it still functions.

--

Cookie Pal! Does he wear a little hat and gloves and a big smile and bring
you cookies whenever you need them????


Haha. No, but the silly icon looks like it is gobbling cookies. Or
something.

--
Jean B.

cybercat wrote:
"Jean B." wrote:
Not so sure about the OE part. Still, I'll give it a try. Do I recall
correctly that it is a suite, and thus includes a newsreader?


What is "OE" like about it is, you can have your newsgroups and your
mail in the same interface.


Oh, like the ?communicator? part of netscape.

--
Jean B.

On 2008-06-10, Janet Wilder wrote:

That's what I understood. It's the replacement for the old Mozilla Suite

Not a replacement, it IS the old mozilla suite. They just changed the name
because debian had issues with it not being "pure" open source or something
to that effect. FF also has a renamed version, Iceweasel, for the same reason.
Minor trademark issues. Seamonkey (mozilla) decided to do their own thing
cuz FF was getting too far afield of the original intent of mozilla, which
evolved from netscape, which is no longer supported. Got that? Me neither!

nb

Jean B. wrote:
notbob wrote:
On 2008-06-10, Blinky the Shark wrote:

It's basically Firefox and Thunderbird, cojoined for some obscure
reason.

....but without the crippling overhead and reduced control. What
happened
to the tools cookie manager? What? You're too stupid to be in
control of
cookies?
nb

What lacks the cookie manager? I rather like that. Of course, I can
use cookie pal, if it still functions.


Just click Edit-Preferences-Privacy & Security-Cookies. On the lower
right is a "Manage Cookies" button.

Jean B. wrote:

Blinky the Shark wrote:
Jean B. wrote:

cybercat wrote:
I'm trying it out. It's pretty good so far. Nice, user-friendly
interface, high functionality.
** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **
Good to hear, since when I have my new PC, I want to try that. Is it
at all like the old Netscape was?

It's basically Firefox and Thunderbird, cojoined for some obscure
reason.

I guess I'd have to see whether there's any advantage to them then, since
I am currently using Firefox and Thunderbird. I MISS the old Netscape.

Nope.

--
Blinky
Killing all posts from Google Groups
The Usenet Improvement Project -- http://improve-usenet.org
Found 5/08: a free GG-blocking news *feed* -- http://usenet4all.se

wrote:

On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:35:40 -0700, Blinky the Shark
wrote:

notbob wrote:

On 2008-06-10, Dan Goodman wrote:

Nothing obscure about it; some people like it that way.

Bingo!

And some people would probably like a toaster that's also a vacuum
cleaner.

Minimalists for starters. Nice clean lines....

Mimimalists do stand-alone programs, not bolted-together "suites".


--
Blinky
Killing all posts from Google Groups
The Usenet Improvement Project -- http://improve-usenet.org
Found 5/08: a free GG-blocking news *feed* -- http://usenet4all.se

"Jean B." wrote:



I guess I'd have to see whether there's any advantage to them then,
since I am currently using Firefox and Thunderbird. I MISS the old
Netscape.



I tried it. The browser locked up on me. The new reader is just like Firefox,
which is similar to Netscape Communicator but lacks the reference for following
threads back. I am sticking with Netscape for news groups.

Ed Rinehart wrote:
Jean B. wrote:
notbob wrote:
On 2008-06-10, Blinky the Shark wrote:

It's basically Firefox and Thunderbird, cojoined for some obscure
reason.

....but without the crippling overhead and reduced control. What
happened
to the tools cookie manager? What? You're too stupid to be in
control of
cookies? nb

What lacks the cookie manager? I rather like that. Of course, I can
use cookie pal, if it still functions.


Just click Edit-Preferences-Privacy & Security-Cookies. On the lower
right is a "Manage Cookies" button.

That's familiar. I don't know what the above comment pertained to then.

--
Jean B.

Blinky the Shark wrote:
wrote:

On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:35:40 -0700, Blinky the Shark
wrote:

notbob wrote:

On 2008-06-10, Dan Goodman wrote:

Nothing obscure about it; some people like it that way.
Bingo!
And some people would probably like a toaster that's also a vacuum
cleaner.
Minimalists for starters. Nice clean lines....

Mimimalists do stand-alone programs, not bolted-together "suites".


Ah, but the old Netscape was just lovely. I forget which one I really
liked. It was before the 7.2 that I used more recently, which had a
separate Navigator component.

--
Jean B.

Dave Smith wrote:

"Jean B." wrote:



I guess I'd have to see whether there's any advantage to them then,
since I am currently using Firefox and Thunderbird. I MISS the old
Netscape.



I tried it. The browser locked up on me. The new reader is just like
Firefox, which is similar to Netscape Communicator but lacks the
reference for following threads back.

You mean the clickable references? I did like that about NS.

I'm not using any of the products now, because they just don't have
powerful enough filtering for today's wacky usenet.




Brian

--
If televison's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who
won't shut up.
-- Dorothy Gambrell (http://catandgirl.com)

"Jean B." wrote:

Ah, but the old Netscape was just lovely. I forget which one I really
liked. It was before the 7.2 that I used more recently, which had a
separate Navigator component.

This is when I stopped using Netscape.