Which Netscape browsers do you test with?

[peterinwa]

I have been testing my webpages with Netscape 4 and 6. When I put 7 on my PC today, it stepped on 6. Is that correct? Or should I be testing with all three?

What do you test with? Does anyone use 4 anymore?

This makes a big difference because my webpages test for Netscape, but not the different versions. And for any visitors using Netscape I greatly restrict features on my pages because 4 can't handle them. When 4 users go away I'll be able to do more with my pages like I do for Internet Explorer. (Actually, I wish Netscape would just go away!)

Thanks,

Peter

[craig1972]

i am surprised! do people really still use IE 5.5? why dont they go and update from the windowsupdate website which is right in their browser?!

[elevate]

That's strange -- whenever I try to install NN4.8 on my WinXp machine, I get an error message saying "can't run 16-bit Windows program" even though I've tried using WinXP's compatibility mode. Anyone else out there have any experience installing or using NN4x on WinXP?

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I have had NS 4.7 installed on my XP machine...
Don't know that I did anything special though.

[g1smd]

Are you sure you have the right installer file?

I think they do one 16-bit version for Windows 3.x machines, and another 32-bit version for Windows 9x machines.

The latest 4.x version is Netscape 4.8 which I ran before changing to Mozilla.

[txbakers]

i am surprised! do people really still use IE 5.5? why dont they go and update from the windowsupdate website which is right in their browser?!

Probably for the same reasons people still use Netscape 4.79.

As a developer I'm wary to change from 5.5 to 6, just because the majority of my user base is on 5.5.

[davemarks]

End of the month and I though I would take a dig round various sites stats in depth

One site that has been up for just over a month has this for netscape - to say the least i was shocked! So I thought I would share

Netscape 7.02 No 112 0 %
Netscape 7.01 No 199 0.1 %
Netscape 7.0 No 124 0 %
Netscape 6.2.3 No 7 0 %
Netscape 6.2.2 No 33 0 %
Netscape 6.2.1 No 47 0 %
Netscape 6.2 No 93 0 %
Netscape 6.1 No 18 0 %
Netscape 6.01 No 20 0 %
Netscape 5.0 No 687 0.4 %
Netscape 4.8 No 46 0 %
Netscape 4.79 No 95 0 %
Netscape 4.78 No 91 0 %
Netscape 4.77 No 88 0 %
Netscape 4.76 No 55 0 %
Netscape 4.75 No 262 0.1 %
Netscape 4.73 No 18 0 %
Netscape 4.72 No 19 0 %
Netscape 4.7 No 194 0.1 %
Netscape 4.61 No 41 0 %
Netscape 4.5 No 223 0.1 %
Netscape 4.08 No 8 0 %
Netscape 4.06 No 18 0 %
Netscape 4.0 No 2 0 %

And thats only 1.6% of traffic. 5.5% accounts for "Others" and the rest is MSIE which in itself is interesting...

Msie 6.0 No 82024 54.3 %
Msie 5.5 No 27015 17.8 %
Msie 5.22 No 1038 0.6 %
Msie 5.21 No 265 0.1 %
Msie 5.16 No 537 0.3 %
Msie 5.15 No 56 0 %
Msie 5.14 No 602 0.3 %
Msie 5.13 No 189 0.1 %
Msie 5.12 No 241 0.1 %
Msie 5.01 No 14312 9.4 %
Msie 5.0 No 11808 7.8 %
Msie 4.5 No 153 0.1 %
Msie 4.01 No 1549 1 %
Msie 4.0 No 4 0 %
Msie? No 8 0 %

I never knew there were so many versions :o

[4serendipity]

Is there not some program or some such that "emulates" how all these different types look?

The Deja Vu browser emulator is cool site that simulates old (and I mean *old*) browsers
[dejavu.org...]

As for me, I typically test sites with the folowing NS versions:
A recent Mozilla build
7.02
6.2
4.8
4.08