Posted 2:32 PM by Floyd

Administrativa III

When my hard disk crashed and I reinstalled Windows 2000, I got updated versions of lots of programs. I now have Netscape 7 and IE 5.0.

I used to have a bad impression of Netscape. Before the crash I had some version of Netscape 4, I think 4.4, and it was hopeless. And at work I found IE 5.5 better and more reliable than Netscape 6.1. But Netscape 7 is wonderful. One window can display multiple pages using tabs; you can open a link in a new tab, or create a tab and type a URL while another tab is loading. It's much easier than multiple windows. Also Netscape 7 is faster than previous versions at startup, loading, and rendering.

Netscape 7 has one drawback compared to IE 5. When I type an entry that names a blogger, I hyperlink that blogger's name to his blog (for instance, in the previous posting I created an <A HREF tag around Damian Penny's name). I have the blogger's site in my bookmarks, and would like to copy the bookmarked URL. In IE I can just go to the bookmarks page, navigate to his name, and right-click to get the properties. I can't do that in Netscape; I need to invoke the Manage Bookmarks window, which is much less convenient than getting the bookmark off my toolbar.