Bug 68556

Summary:	netscape should be part of the base distribution
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Public Beta	Reporter:	mark krischer <mkrisch>
Component:	netscape	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version:	limbo	CC:	marius.andreiana, rvokal
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Description mark krischer 2002-07-11 03:48:57 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020205

Description of problem:
given that not all sites support mozilla (some don't even let you access them if
you don't use netscape 4.x or IE--e.g. citibank australia internet banking). 
also some java applets (for example various web tools on cisco's internal web
site) only work with the old built-in java in netscape.

so, i think it's a mistake to completely remove netscape 4.7x.  i think you
should consider just installing netscape-navigator.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.type "netscape"
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Comment 1 Marius Andreiana 2002-07-11 09:56:05 UTC

Meanwhile ask them to conform to standards as described at
http://www.webstandards.org/learn/
I've got the same problem with a bank here which requires IE, but now they are
working on fixing it.

Also try the competition. 
This would be the long-term solution, not sticking to netscape 4.x

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2002-07-12 03:54:37 UTC

Netscape has been marked deprecated since 7.1. Its time has come. If you need
it, the 7.3 packages should still work on the beta.

Comment 3 Simon Matter 2002-08-19 06:19:59 UTC

I'm asking for netscape 4.x too. The problem is with mozilla that it is really
slow on older hardware. Netscape 4.x is still much faster and usable there.
Please don't forget all those people with older hardware.