>Netscape users:
>I am curious why you persist in using Netscape.  I teach several online
>classes and 85% of the problems are due to students who use AOL as their
>Internet service provider and the rest are due to those using
>Netscape.  Netscape was the first, but it is clearly not the best,
>browser.  Internet Explorer is faster and uses up less "real estate" on
the
>screen.  Is it just that you have always used Netscape or that you just
>can't get over Bill Gates' fortune :-)
>
>I'm really curious about the choice because I need to counsel students
and
>I don't why members of the professional community still use Netscape.
>
>Larry
>
>Larry Jon Friesen, PhD
>Chairman, Biological Sciences, Santa Barbara City College
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Larry, I use both. There are small differences, but I really don't have a
preference either way. My university supplies us with Netscape, so it is
what we have on all of our lab and office machines. I like the way
Explorer
handles bookmarks (favorites) a bit better, as they can be saved directly
to whatever sub-folder you desire. But other than that, I see no
particular
advantage one way or the other. As to real estate, how much room a browser
takes up has more to do with how a person arranges it and possibly with
monitor resolution settings.

I have no problems with either Netscape or Explorer, except if students
persist in having 6 or more programs open all at the same time. I do tend
to bump up RAM allocation for Netscape... that might help your freezing
problems.

My 2 cents.

Karen


Karen Ackoff
Assistant Professor of Fine Arts
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