I have been using the Netscape browser for well over a decade, but today I got a notification that it will no longer be supported. In fact, they suggested that users go either to Flock or Firefox. I’ve used Firefox, but I don’t like the look of it So here I am at Flock, checking it out.
Netscape, Firefox and Flock are all based upon Mozilla technology, so I’m hoping it will be a relatively painless transition. So far, so good, but I’m going to have to play with it to see if I like it.
As you have probably ascertained, I don’t like Internet Explorer. This is going to sound paranoid, but I get the impression that Microsoft spies on its customers, and that creeps me out.
This is a test of the Flock browser’s ability to publish to blogs without having to go to the website every time. I’m just checking it out, basically. So far, it has its own editor built right into the browser, but it’s missing some stuff I use pretty regularly and seems to have no expanded options like the actual wordpress. It also doesn’t have my categories, though it does have tags.
However, it is easier to change to a new font. We’ll see how it looks when I publish it.
When I clicked “publish”, it popped up and asked me for my categories. Hmmm……..
Blogged with Flock
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I use Firefox. I didn’t like it at first…but I like it now. You can actually get all kinds of skins to change the look of it and now it looks almost like IE (what I used to use before I got a nasty pc virus that I had no clue where it came from)…except I have cute little kitty cats at the top for my buttons and goldfish where it shows that the page is loading.
I like Firefox because it has all kinds of plugins (like for Google Reader so I know as soon as someone posts something new) that you can use as well as skins for the window itself.
I say give it a shot…try any of them for a few days and see which one you like best…and check out Mozilla’s extras to see what one offers the best plugins you would like to use.
ElfNinosMom,
Just because a particular browser is “no longer supported,” that doesn’t mean you can’t use it!
All that “no longer supported” means is that the people who made it aren’t going to upgrade it any more, or offer tech support for paying customers for it, etc. At the USER end, it’s still good to go until and unless new versions of HTML and such come out that it doesn’t support, and there’s not a new version to upgrade to.
If you like Netscape, hey, stay with Netscape!
Regards,
Tom
Hiya, Tom, nice to see you visiting here.
I’m still using Netscape at this point. I figure I’ll keep using it until it stops working, because I just don’t like the alternatives.
It makes me feel a little better about continuing to use an unsupported browser since you said it won’t hurt anything though, so thanks for chiming in.