Re: BEWARE NETSCAPE 95!!
From Mitchell Holman <hol...@cyberramp.net>
· alt.ascii-art.animation
· 13 Apr 1997 00:00 · View full thread
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In article <335...@DeleteThis.interaccess.com>, gb...@DeleteThis.interaccess.com wrote:
}According to PC WORLD, May '97, Internet Tips, pg. 276:
}
}If you install the latest version of Navigator from their web site,
}and then uninstall it -- you're screwed! EVERYTHING will stop working!
}If you have another browser on your machine, it will also stop
}working. They only way around it is to reinstall the new version of
}Navigator again, plus anything else that stopped working.
}
}Navigator, it seems, uses files in Windows 95's Registry that other
}Internet browsers need. These Registry files are DELETED when you
}uninstall Navigator!
}
}How about that for getting even with you for rejecting their product?
}
}It was nice of PC WORLD to let us in on this, even if they did it on
}page 276. It should have been on the first page!
A rather odd collection of groups you chose to cross-post
this to, but in anycase: Why would you want to uninstall this
new version? Are there any paticular drawbacks that come
to mind?
Mitchell Holman
"640K ought to be enough for anybody. "
- Bill Gates, in 1981
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