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NS 4.8 or earlier

Postby rspek » Tue 01 Jan, 2008 9:26 am

I am new to the forum. Will NS 4.8 or earlier still work to browse the Internet after AOL withdraws their support on February 1, 2008?
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Postby iJohnE » Tue 01 Jan, 2008 11:27 am

They should. AOL pulling the support simply means that there will be no more new versions.
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Re: NS 4.8 or earlier

Postby profman » Tue 01 Jan, 2008 11:12 pm

rspek wrote:I am new to the forum. Will NS 4.8 or earlier still work to browse the Internet after AOL withdraws their support on February 1, 2008?

All earlier versions of Netscape will work as well as their aging software code permits. They are generally restricted by their limited capabilities and contain various security risks.

I expect that the Netscape 4.x series of browsers was more-or-less abandoned by Time Warner/AOL long ago, so matters should not get any worse.
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Postby karl » Sat 05 Jan, 2008 1:25 am

From what I have read as a member of various web design boards.....Netscape 4 on Windows can crash on heavily styled (CSS) and layered pages. Most sites will look drastically different and you will more than likely get nagged to upgrade a lot.
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