Netscape 7 vs Mozilla 1

What they've done...

[Crescendo]

I always have pop up windows turned off in Mozilla 1. I thought Netscape 7 was almost the same program, just a different wrapper, so I was surprised to see a pop up window come up. Checking the Preferences I now see that in Netscape 7, they've removed the option to prevent "unrequested windows"! Agh! Moz 1, NS7 0.

[tedster]

I wonder if that's not an AOL brainstorm. You know how they love to force content.

[The_Warden]

Netscape 7 has the same core and basic operations as Mozilla just branded with Netscape name, popup ads removed (AOL pushed this) and a few other changes (money making links, AOL crap, plugins, etc.). AOL wanted this pop up windows feature removed since AOL is based on pop up ads (ick). Netscape 7 uses Mozilla 1.0.1 I believe. You can find this out by running Netscape 7 and going into the Help menu and clicking on About. Look for rv. and a serious of 3 numbers. That's the revision number Mozilla (version).

I personally would recommend using Mozilla then Netscape 7. Netscape 7 is just too bloated and a pain (AOL facture coming into play here <G>). You can supposidly gain the pop up windows feature but not sure how though.

[jdMorgan]

I believe I saw the pop-up feature on/off control described in the Netsacpe 7 release notes. If it wasn't in the release notes, it was here on WebmasterWorld.

NN7 was apparently taken from the release of Mozilla previous to the one that Mozilla released recently. One of the old bugs from that release is still in NN7 - the "click and hold down the Bookmarks icon, then drag into page display area" bug that gets you an "Easter Egg" showing the bug report page.

However, NN7 is much faster than the current Mozilla release - at least on my machine and internet connection. Netscape apparently "tweaked" the Gecko rendering engine and sped it up noticeably.

If I could have NN7's speed and Moz's features and lack of bugs, it'd be great!

Jim

[bobriggs]

These user preferences can be enabled and disabled with various builds. I've been able to disable popups since NN6 when it was not an option then, and I'd have to look around to find out what I did, but this might help:

[hmetzger.de...]

Doesn't look like what I used to use (I'm not on Moz1.1 so it's hard to tell) - but it's close. The trick is to find out where your prefs.js file is. You can find out on mozilla.org - it depends on the platform.

[edited by: tedster at 4:42 am (utc) on Sep. 25, 2002]

[weesnich]

You may take a look at the prefbar. I dont know if it works with NS7, however its a nice tool for mozilla.

[xulplanet.com...]

[Crescendo]

This page tells you how to edit your preferences: [techaholic.net...]

If you go to the Netscape/defaults/pref folder and open the javascript files such as all.js in Notepad, you'll see all kinds of parameters that can be tweaked!