Netscape vs Interet Explorer

We once used Netscape as our prefered browser but since Netscape was sold to AOL we found the look and feel was very hard to get used to and that the product was very slow to start. We also felt there was too much pushing of AOL ie the main focus seemed to be on access to AOL facilities rather than being a general purpose browser. The same could be said of IE but you can turn the MS stuff off in IE much more easily than turning off the AOL in Netscape. The one thing that we have found that is better is Netscape Composer is easier to use than FrontPage Express

I have used both products and, once I got used to each program's differences, I found them both to be excellent.
That said, I have found over the years that Mr Gates has often been blamed for the shortcomings of his competitor's software. I really don't know if he actually sabotages his competition, but I do believe it is possible. You can call me a cynic, but because of this, I have made it a practice to almost always recommend a Microsoft product over a similar competitor's product. And, believe it or not, I get less complaints, and I believe my clients have less problems, when they run a Microsoft product on top of a Microsoft operting system. Thanks for asking for my opinion. I hope it will be useful to you.

My $0.02.
I use both and have no problems with either program. I agree with the comment that NS opens slowly. Sometimes things seem to work better in IE. My big thing is that is that if you use NS for e-mail then you seem to be less prone to Outlook virus issues. I have some users that continue to try to run the .VBS files that come in attached to e-mails (even though they have been warned) and have yet to re-broadcast anything outside of my network.

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