Larry,

Yes, 4.08 is a maintenance release to version 4.0 of
Netscape's browser and, yes, I did go back a few
version to find a stable version. In my experience, on
5 seperate PC(s), version 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7 were TOO
unstable for my to keep on my system. It's important
for me to have my system running and although I do
like a couple of the additional feature in the later
browser (truth be told, I don't see any compelling
features going from 4.6 to 4.7).

I do have to have both IE and Netscape running on my
system in order to facilitate some of the web
development that I do.

Also, IE does have a tendency to get a mind of its own
as well but version 5.0 of IE is far less finicky than
version 4.5, 4.6 or 4.7 of Netscape -- at least in my
experiences.

I am looking forward to seeing, if there is ever a
release, what becomes of the Mozilla browser,
AOL/Netscape open source browser effort. Since the
development process seems to be proceeding at a
snail's pace, I'm not holding my breath.

--- Larry Stewart <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Sounds to me Jim as if you're going backwards in
> versions of Netscape. Am I
> missing something? The zero before the 8 in V4.08
> would, by my accounting be
> a maintenance release of version 4.0. Is that true?
> Did you have to go that
> far back to find a stable version?
>
> I thought version 4.7 was the very latest. Sure hope
> so or I wasted an 18Mb
> download last week.
>
> Sure, my version 4.6 of Netscape Communicator did
> crash periodically but no
> more often than Internet Explorer V5.

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