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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sam Citron who wrote (18171)	3/25/1998 4:49:00 PM
From: damniseedemons	Respond to of 24154

Hi Sam, long time no see! Hope you're doing well. I run both IE4 and Communicator 4.04 concurrently on my systems. Absolutely no problems here. If you describe the problems you're facing, we could try to help. -Sal

To: Sam Citron who wrote (18171)	3/25/1998 8:35:00 PM
From: drmorgan	Respond to of 24154

Anybody know of any incompatibilities that may create computer problems if both IE and Netscape browsers are installed on the system and used interchangeably? Sam, I never could pin point it but I had troubles doing that under Win95. Now that I'm running NT things are much better, hardly ever a application crash. I've said this before but NT reminds me of OS/2 as far as stability goes. My guess is that browsers have a ways to go in their development especially under Win95. In the past year or so almost all my crashes were browsers and under '95. I would consider going with NT, there is no way '95 is as robust of an OS. And if you still need '95 just use a dual boot system like System Commander. Good Luck

To: Sam Citron who wrote (18171)	3/25/1998 11:11:00 PM
From: Eugene Goodman	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 24154

I have had this problem and I am convinced that the cause was NetNav. I had IE on my machine for about two years because it was given to me by my ISP. I signed up with Merill Lynch on line last year. mlol support only Netscape Navigator- so no problem I added it plus, of course, Adobe. My machine is a Compaq Aero 4/33C that has windows of Tabworks, a windows organizer, on startup. I had no problems for a couple of weeks. Then it started: windows of the compaq utilities always 10 of them, all in the same order; all from the cpqdos directory. It drove me nuts. I had to clear all of the screens to get control of the machine. I had plenty of time over last Christmas holiday or so I thought. I completely cleared out my hard disk mostly because I screwed up. Has anyone else erased his root directory using deltree in dos. A very powerful command. Thank God I had a startup disk with winlink plus that my wife has the same computer that mirrors mine. I loaded only Internet Explorer and had no problems for a couple of weeks. Then I loaded Netscape Navigator and the problem of extraneous windows again started. I went through the recovery again, but with a little less fumbling, I have given up for now on mlol. In any case I am absolutly positive that the cause of my problems was NetNav and that the claim of write once run anywhere is at best specious at worst a con game.