[aclug-L] Re: netscape questions

["Jeremy King" <jmking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I believe that Netscape 5 was the codebase that Mozilla inheirited from
Netscape, but decided to drop.  As to the size of the download, I would
guess that it is related to the difference between windows and linux
download methods.  I know that the windows version requires you to do an
initial download of a download configuration utility--that allows you to
strip out unnecessary stuff like mail and composer without having to
download the full package.  I think that they are  only allowing a download
of a complete binary for linux, meaning you get the mail and other junk
whether you want it or not.  I did the windows download at work, but haven't
downloaded it for linux because it still isn't feature complete.  It really
looks nice though.

Jeremy

----- Original Message -----
From: phrostie <phrostie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: discussion aclug <discussion@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2000 4:15 PM
Subject: [aclug-L] netscape questions


> I'm currently downloading the prerelease of netscape 6.
>
> I have a couple questions.
>
> 1. what happened to 5.?  they seem to have gone from 4.71 to
> 6.0.
>
> 2. what happned to the quick down load?  I remember seing on
> linuxtoday and the netscape download page that it was a 5.5
> meg download.  It's more like 10+ meg.
>
>
> --
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> Oh I've slipped the surly bonds of dos
> and danced the skies on LINUX silvered wings.
> http://www.cottagesoft.com/~phrostie/cad-tastrafy
>
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