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Two More Pieces on Netscape 6 PR1

Tuesday April 18th, 2000

We have two more pieces on Netscape 6 PR1 for you. The first is a piece at WebTools, and the next, an evaluation by Rob Valliere.

#1 Two more betas left?

by gerbilpower

Tuesday April 18th, 2000 9:28 PM

The WebTools article is the second article I've read so far that said that there are two more beta releases left before final. Is this true? Was this mentioned in a press release or the Preview Release media conference?

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#2 Re: Two more betas left?

by basic

Wednesday April 19th, 2000 12:06 AM

Not that I know of. It would be nice though. PR2 for full featured (real themes!!). PR3 for full optimization and more usability testing?

Will M16 be fully standard compliant in all ways with HTML4 DOM1 CSS1 XML1 ?

#3 Re: Two more betas left?

by Tekhir

Wednesday April 19th, 2000 12:12 AM

that doesn't sound right. especiallt since this is a DR and nto a true Beta.

#7 Re: Re: Two more betas left?

by sdm

Wednesday April 19th, 2000 8:35 AM

Actually, it is a true beta. Two more seems reasonable.

#4 WebTools

by Tekhir

Wednesday April 19th, 2000 12:17 AM

I like both articles except for one thing at the bottom of the first page on the WebTools article.

"The manual uninstall requires what, for all but the more advanced and expert users, are some tricky file manipulations."

What? Is deleting so hard?

#5 Re: WebTools

by RvR

Wednesday April 19th, 2000 2:42 AM

many windows users have written in various newsgroups that NS6PR1 creates lots of "registry keys"... but i can't confirm this as i'm not a windows user.

#8 Re: Re: WebTools

by gerbilpower

Wednesday April 19th, 2000 9:16 AM

That doesn't sound right, installing Netscape 6 PR1 only creates a Netscape 6 directory for the program files, a Users50 directory for the profile, and mozregistry.dat. From what I know Moz doesn't even write to the registry, and it's not unusual for a program to leave registry keys behind after uninstalling.

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#6 And another NS 6 PR1 review...

by rkl

Wednesday April 19th, 2000 5:40 AM

Another one here (surprisingly positive) at http://www.winmag.com/reviews/software/2000/04/0410_a.htm

I wonder if these NS 6.0 PR1 review sites are going to re-review PR2, PR3 and the final in as much detail ? Shame on them if they don't....

As for Mozilla M15, anyone actually seen even a mention of its release (other than here and Slashdot) ?

#9 Re: And another NS 6 PR1 review...

by gerbilpower

Wednesday April 19th, 2000 9:19 AM

MacNN mentioned the news about M15, as they always do. But last wee they jumped the gun and announced that M15 was out, but they did not correct it until now.

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