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To: drmorgan who wrote (14430)	11/24/1997 9:06:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Read Replies (1) of 24154

>>> hard to find? It's right on the top banner and on the top and side menu for Netscape users. Actually, I have been finding the Netscape site more and more obscure lately. Poor (too complicated) layout. After reading this exchange I decided to finally download the latest netscape browser. I have been on 3.1 for quite a while. I would have preferred Nav 4.x but the only way to get editing features was to get Communicator 4.04. It took me almost five minutes of shuffling around the site to determine that the was no Navigator 4.x 'Gold' (the editing version previously was 3.x Gold.) Therefore I needed Communicator, but this was not very explicitely announced. Then, of course, I had to lose 5 minutes trying to make the full encryption download work. It failed, I think because my ISP supports some Japanese websites as well as American. In spite of my own domain name being registered and paid for and located in the US. A side effect of this downloading versus CD based or Windows-included distribution is that when you have the stupid encryption export stuff still going on (thought we got rid of that) is that it is hurting Netscape at their point of sale by complicating things. Meanwhile my local Egghead store has moved all the Netscape stuff away from the front door and put IE and other MS stuff there. (Why?) Used to be to get Netscape downloaded you pressed the omnipresent 'Netscape Now' button on any of a hundred thousand websites. Between all the other problems and the fact that Netscape should have started offering incentives for that virtual 'shelf space' but hasn't (so you see few of those buttons these days,) I'm beginning to think Netscape has developed some marketing myopia these last few months. I hate to give the chittering hordes of the evil empire this point (;-), but a little honesty is called for here. Chaz

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