Mozilla 0.6 and Apolyton

[Urban Ranger]

I have just found that Mozilla came out with a new version, 0.6, which is supposedly same as Netscape 6. I am downloading it now. Has anybody used it to browse Apolyton? Any comments?

[Urban Ranger]

Nobody has used it? You can download it from the Mozilla website

[Narck]

Downloading it now... Hope it's better than that !@#!@#@!#! Netscape 6!

[Narck]

At first glance, it seems to be better than Netscape 6.. haven't used it for very long though... so I'll wait a bit to give a better judgement.

At least my go-box doesn't seem to be jumping around on my screen anymore................

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edit: and the minute I post that, my go box is on the other side of the screen
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[Narck]

Ok.. It totally SUCKS

Did anyone else notice how badly it messes up the Apolyton message boxes? I can't even properly edit my msgs anymore.

[Urban Ranger]

At least the screen fonts are bigger than the one in Netscape. I can also enter my messages fine.


So far so good.

EDIT: I don't seem to have any problems editing my messages either, and my pull down menu (the "Go" box) is fine.
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[Kumiorava]

Works great for me. Running the Linux binaries on a heavily customized Mandrake 7.0, kernel 2.4.8.

I've already found it more stable than old Netscape 4.7, and finally I can get the the most out of java and flash without crashimg my browser. Moz.6 has quite a memory print when its running, but I threw in another 256M DIMM a few weeks back, so I've got plenty to spare now. As for performance, it easily beats in speed any version of IE or Netscape I've used with this hardware on any OS. The 56k line isn't exactly blazing with any browser, but this beats old 4.7 for sure. I haven't found any clitches in the interface yet, but the browser still crashes occasionally when weird content is thrown at it (one of the banners on Apolyton trips it before the first image loads fully. Somebody had a thread on it here...).

If you still use Netscape 4.7x, the Moz 0.6 is deffenitely worth the download.

[Urban Ranger]

Narck,


You're right. I have problems editing long passages directly in a textarea box. It's a bad practice to do so anyway, though they should fix the bug


As many posters have found out it's better to use a text editor to enter long messages, since your brower can crash at any time (IE included).


Another bug is I don't get to see the previous posts while relying even if the thread contains less than 25 messages. *shrug* Yeah it still got bugs, that's why it's version 0.6 .


K.,

Been lurking around here?

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[Narck]

<center><table width=80%><tr><td><font color=000080 face="Verdana" size=2><font size="1">quote:
<img src="/images/blue1.gif" width=100% height=1>
</font><font size=1>Originally posted by Urban Ranger on 12-25-2000 12:04 AM</font>
As many posters have found out it's better to use a text editor to enter long messages, since your brower can crash at any time (IE included)
<img src="/images/blue1.gif" width=100% height=1></font></td></tr></table></center>Yeah, I do that, usually. If I don't do it, I copy my text to the clipboard before submitting. But now it's hard to select all the text because of Mozilla messing up something in the text box...

I don't like it very much... btw, could someone tell me where the location bar is hidden in this browser?

[Narck]

Right after I posted above I got the Hop to Go Button problem again. This is what it looks like:
http://narck.webjump.com/Apolyton/GoBox.jpg

Where is my Go button? And I couldn't even click on the Hop To field to try and select another Forum...

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[Iain Lindley]

Ugh... stick to IE, people! Fight the good fight!

[Apostle 83]

Haha, the browser screws up your apolyton experience? Haha, I hate to say it but all that does is point to one sided coding.

[Urban Ranger]

Narck,

Hm, that looks weird. Mine looks all right, though I am using the "Modern" theme. You could try to see if that helps you any. To set the theme, go to the "Preferences" menu.

What location bar are you talking about?

[Narck]

<center><table width=80%><tr><td><font color=000080 face="Verdana" size=2><font size="1">quote:
<img src="/images/blue1.gif" width=100% height=1>
</font><font size=1>Originally posted by Urban Ranger on 12-26-2000 04:14 AM</font>
Hm, that looks weird. Mine looks all right, though I am using the "Modern" theme.
<img src="/images/blue1.gif" width=100% height=1></font></td></tr></table></center>I have modern theme as well...


<center><table width=80%><tr><td><font color=000080 face="Verdana" size=2><font size="1">quote:
<img src="/images/blue1.gif" width=100% height=1>
</font>What location bar are you talking about?
<img src="/images/blue1.gif" width=100% height=1></font></td></tr></table></center>The one that is normally near the top of the screen, where we can type in web addresses... I don't have it and can't find the option to turn it on... using bookmarks to get to Apolyton.

[Urban Ranger]

Oh that. That's really messed up. What OS are you using? First thought is to deinstall and install again.