Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: George Shapovalov <georges@×××××××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Netscape Packages
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 15:19:17
Message-Id: 200204121311.20481.georges@its.caltech.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Netscape Packages by Avi Schwartz
1 Sorry, did not notice this before I posted my answer to John.
2 This may be a problem (see the reasons in my reply).
3 I agree that keeping netscape-4 as a default one is probably better for some
4 time at least. Therefore a reasonable option is to create new dir (like
5 netscape-6) under net-www to keep new netscape version.
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7 George
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10 On Friday 12 April 2002 12:40, Avi Schwartz wrote:
11 > No, no, no. Netscape 4.X is still very usefull for accessing web sites
12 > which will not work properly with Netscape 6.X or Mozilla. Some of the
13 > banks still do not consider Netscape 6.X/Mozilla as safe enough and the
14 > only way for me to do web banking is using Netscape 4.X. Citibank is
15 > one such example.
16 >
17 > Avi
18 >
19 > On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 14:25, John Dee wrote:
20 > > One more question I've got.
21 > > Would you guys be willing to replace netscape 4.x with netscape 6 as the
22 > > default browser?
23 > > Since netscape 4.x isn't really being maintained anymore (I do builds
24 > > once a week, blah bleh), and the 6.x line is nscp's main focus, would
25 > > you guys be willing to make netscape6 the default netscape browser?