SillyDog701

[Wellander]

Hi,
Why was Navigator Standalone 4.5+ released for Linux but not Windows or Macintoshes?
I seen no point in this.
Can someone please tell me?
I have been wondering for a long time now.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316

[Antony]

I have no idea, but I can only guess that most Linux (UNIX) users prefer to use their own mail reader.

And a number of Linux (UNIX) users are very picky... They don't need a bloated application, they won't download it. They only want what they need.

So just Navigator would be enough for them.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/124 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.1

[Wellander]

Hi,
But why did they not do it for Windows Macintoshes.

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98)

[Antony]

Because Linux users are pickier than Windows users.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/124 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.1

[Wellander]

Hi,
But if Netscape id it for one platform they should it for all.
Right? Wrong?

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

[Antony]

It should, but there are other issues, such as the resource. And as I said, Linux users are the toughest group to please.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/124 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.1

[Don_HH2K]

If you did want a Mail program, you could always install NS4.08 for Linux and then use SmartUpdate to update to 4.5x

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax)