The end of Netscape

As you all know, I fiddle this here web-site with Netscape.
I have two Netscapes in my dock: 9.0 which is only a browser, and looks a lot like FireFox; and 7.2.
I keep the 7.2 because -a) it still has my Netscape RoadRunner e-mail, the onliest e-mail the Messenger Ne’er-do-Wells can respond to (MyWay is an Internet e-mail; and they’re blocked), and -b) FireFox and 9.0 won’t let me download pictures, whereas 7.2 will.
Last night (Saturday, March 1, 2008) I got a message that MyFamblee.com would no longer be supporting Netscape.
THIS AIN’T THE GLOOM-AND-DOOM SCENARIO THE ALL-KNOWING GRAND POOBAH WANNABEE NOISILY PREDICTED.
In fact, they’re recommending FireFox®, the browser the bluster-boy seems to be afraid of.
So I immediately dumped my 9.0, and started fiddling FlagOut with the FireFox I already have. I had FlagOut as a FireFox bookmark.
The onliest reason I ever used 9.0 was to fiddle FlagOut, and in fact their most recent update dumped WeatherBug. (MyCast was better.)
No mention of tired old Internet-Explorer® at all.
My OS-X had it, and still does; 5.2.
I only keep it because every once-in-a-while I run across a web-site that hasn’t been updated to work with FireFox.
This usually only occurs with online shopping. I try FireFox first, and switch to IE if FireFox doesn’t work. —Sometime even IE doesn’t work.
MyFamblee.com was also recommending “Flock,” a new browser that like FireFox is based on Mozilla code.
I plan to install it, with hopes that unlike FireFox it will let me download pictures. FireFox is a great browser, but it lacks the download function. It won’t even allow me to blow up FlagOut photos.
—A glaring flaw that is wide-open for all to see.
So from now on, FlagOut will get fiddled by me with Mozilla code.
In fact, perhaps I can still fiddle with Netscape 9.0, since it appears to be FireFox.
But I sure don’t fiddle with Internet-Explorer®, since it mucks up everything.
Copy/paste an Appleworks file and it puts in hard returns at line-ends.
You IE users are getting left in the dust.
Like my blog-site, MyFamblee.com recommended FireFox®.

“This here web-site” is “FlagOut,” our family’s web-site, named that because I had a mentally-retarded kid-brother (Down Syndrome) who lived at home, and loudly insisted the flag be flown every day. “Flag-Out! Sun comes up, the flag goes up! Sun goes down, the flag comes down.” I fly the flag partly in his honor. (He died at 14 in 1968.) —Whatever goes on this blog, usually also flew on “FlagOut.”

RE: “Netscape Messenger Ne’er-do-Wells.......” —The “Ne’er-do-Wells” are an e-mail list of everyone I e-mail my stuff to. I had to make a special Ne’er-do-well list of Messenger (Canandaigua Daily-Messenger newspaper, where I once worked) employees in Netscape’s e-mail, which I used long ago, and is still active, because their replies to my regular e-mail, MyWay, bounce.

RE: “This ain’t the gloom-and-doom scenario the all-knowing grand poobah wannabee noisily predicted.......” —“The all-knowing grand poobah wannabee” is my macho blowhard brother-in-Boston (the “bluster-boy”), who noisily badmouths everything I do or say. He claimed Netscape was doomed — that I’d have to switch to Internet-Explorer, thus proving his vast superiority.

Both “WeatherBug” and “MyCast” are weather web-sites. I use “MyCast.”

“MyFamblee.com” is MyFamily.com.