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Old February 27th, 2006, 11:48 AM
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Question Netscape 7.2 keeps crashing on my Mac G5- HELP!?!

I'm attempting to work on our company website using Netscape 7.2. I'm uploading pictures and text (double checking formats and sizing), but Netscape keeps quitting unexpectedly. It is ridiculous how many times and how often this is happening.
I can't get anything done, and feel a bit useless.
We just upgraded our system to the new G5, so it's definitely not a memory problem.
At this point, I am open to ANY suggestions. I'm trying to avoid having to pay Netscape to help- I'm a bit frustrated with them.
I REALLY appreciate the help- this is my first time on this site, so I'm jazzed that someone may be able to fix this!

*Okay, really sorry. As stated before, this is my first time here. I guess I jumped the gun by posting a question without reading all the rules. Thank you for the run-down, fryke. Please forgive my stupidity. I will post what I have done to solve the problem, then not post anymore questions
So far, what I have done:
-I started out with Safari (still have it). The guy who designed our website, suggested I download Netscape 7.1 because I couldn't get any of the information to save on our website. -So I downloaded 7.2 (newer/better?) and it has been crashing every few minutes.
-Then I deleted all 7.2 files to install 7.1. Seemed to work, only this time it converted EVERYTHING on the site to html, whereas before there were menus so I could easily copy/paste text.
-I thought maybe the first version of 7.2 was corrupt (?) so I deleted 7.1 then started over with 7.2. Back to square one. Same problem with the unexpected quitting.

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Old February 27th, 2006, 11:54 AM
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Do you _have_ to use a deprecated version of Netscape? I'd switch to

- Safari (current version, of course)
- Firefox (current version, of course)
- Camino (current version, of course)

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Seamonkey 1.0 (Mozilla/5.0 rv 1.8.0.1) is the successor to Netscape 7.2 (Mozilla/5.0 rv 1.7.2). It works wonderfully. For that matter, I have never had a problem with Netscape 7.2. One can expect that any of the browsers listed by fryke plus numerous others to work. However, I suspect that the OP's real problem is something other than his choice of browser. Until that is addressed, he will have problems with whichever browser he choses.
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I thought Seamonkey was the successor to the Mozilla Suite which is topping out at 1.7.12? Netscape's browser I believe is still based on older versions of Mozilla before 1.7.12.
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I think I've found the answer. I was referred to Camino, and it is working out great!
I think the main problem lies in the fact that the guy who designed our website, did so with aspx technology. Apparently macs and aspx do not get along very well. The Camino is actually helping to link the two together it seems. From what I understand, Camino can be used on both PC's and Macs- and helps tremendously in this sort of circumstance.
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The Camino web browser isn't available for Windows...it's a Mac only app.
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Camino 1.0

The Camino 1.0 information that comes with the download says, "Camino is now a universal binary, allowing it to run natively on both PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs." It sounds as though they've made a LOT of changes from the last version (Camino 0.8.4).
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The Camino 1.0 information that comes with the download says, "Camino is now a universal binary, allowing it to run natively on both PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs." It sounds as though they've made a LOT of changes from the last version (Camino 0.8.4).
Universal binary for Intel and Power PC Macs. This won't run on Windows PCs if that's what you're thinking.
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