On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 17:26:26 GMT, "Laura" wrote:

There is also a setting in AIM to load it when you start windows. Under
Preferences, on the On/Off Tab uncheck the box that says "Start AIM when
windows starts". That might be setting that is overriding your change in
NS7.

Checked that last nite, the box is unchecked, AIM still loads when
Netscape is
opened. I have a seperate popup blocker running now, so it sqashes the
window in
it's tracks. g

Did you also check the AIM settings?

Ok, finally found it. I must have been totally brain dead ... had the option
turned off in AIM but still had the option turned *on* in the netscape
preferences. Sheeeeeeeeeeeesh!

Mozilla is very similar to Netscape 7. http://www.mozilla.org/ They both
are
written with the same Open source Gecko code. They also have another
application called Thunderbird (mail/news only) and Firebird (browser
only).
They all look and behave the same. Truely from the same family of
programs.
I think the decision to not support NS happened within the past year. Had
a
lot to do with the fact that AOL bought Netscape. Long term the plan is
to
have Thunderbird/Firebird be their primary products.

So are mozilla, thunderbird, firebird all owned by AOL now? I'm not an
AOL fan
myself ... but if they work, I'm willing to give them a try. And which of
the
three do you think is better?

Only Netscape is owned by AOL and I think they are letting it die a slow
death. Mozilla is a combined browser/mail/news in one program similar to the
way Netscape is. Thunderbird and Firebird have the components separated into
2 programs (browser vs mail/news). I find the browsers very similar since
they are both gecko based. Also similar to NS7. I haven't really used their
mail or news programs yet. Still stuck with OE. One reason for trying the
Thunderbird/Firebird pair is this seems to be the direction the Mozilla org
is going with their product. Still experimental and under development.

I'll check all three of them out, see what I like. For some reason I am recalling
that my son is using Mozilla - not positive though. He and I both tried Opera,
both had problems with it eventually freezing up our systems. I don't know if he
went back to it or not when he built his new computer. I only tried OE once, but
still avoid it as long as I can. Most viruses seem to be dependant on OE - even
running my virus program, it's still a good enough reason for me to stick with
what I've always had. g

Joyce