Netscape 7.1 Rules
Netscape 7.1 is a godsend. I have not had one problem, yet. Once again, I feel the folks at Netscape have taken a leap ahead of Microsoft (not to mention the fact that I have never been afraid to download and install a new version of Netscape on my computer. I say that, because Microsoft products so often have bugs that I fear upgrading, especially because they make it so difficult to uninstall their products once you have installed them. Damn them).
Advantages NS7.1 has over IE 5.X (I am currently using 5.50.blahblahblah, because of the paranoia mentioned earlier): First and foremost we have an unwanted popup blocker. Netscape notifies you everytime it blocks an unwanted popup (in case you wanted it), but you don't have to worry about all kinds of crap popping up all over your desktop.
In addition (and this may sound crazy, but it's not really) Netscape has always been faster than IE for me. A lot of times (when I was using a dialup connection) IE would act like it couldn't find my connection for about 5 or 10 minutes at a time. However, Netscape always found my connection and loaded the pages and sites without any trouble at all.
Netscape is much more compatible with Winamp, which, IMO is a million times better than Windows Media Player. (Microsoft with all their damn ambitions of controlling your entire computer. Don't be surprised if Microsoft takes over Adobe in the next few years. At this point, Adobe seems to be the only major company besides Microsoft that has software on almost everyone's computer in the world [at least PDF reader]. You know Microsoft won't put up with that for too much longer.)
Anyway. There are quite a few other things I like about Netscape, but I will leave this post where it is for now.
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