Netscape 2.0b and Mac--buggy?

[The Big Glee Bopper]

On Mon, 16 Oct 1995 Peter Graham, Rutgers University at indiana.edu wrote:

> 
> From:  Peter Graham, Rutgers University Libraries
> 
> Anyone else have experience with the new 2.0b for Macs of Netscape?  The
> NYTimes did a big splash on it today (probably mainly the Windows version)
> but when I tried it on release last week I couldn't continue.  Random
> crashes, very slow response to mouse-clicks on menus.

Running it on a Mac 7500 and it works fine.

> Re hotlists, a bete noire of mine:  They've added some functionality and
> taken some away. One can easily sort a hotlist or a sublist, which is very
> nice.  But the tool for moving an entry up or down is gone.  Several features
> are indicated as not available and others are undocumented.  

They have added drag-n-drop which means you don't need the up-down marker.

> Command-Z and one or two other keystrokes brought me into what appears to be
> a debug mode, with debug lines on the screen and an enormously enlarged area
> of the Netscape window.  Could only get out by optin-control-escape, which
> only let me kill the Finder--things worked after that, but not for long, as
> you can imagine--there was no finder.  So I gave up and am back at 1.1N.  --pg

I'll give this a try later but so far it works fine for me. Maybe it was 
written for the PowerPC??

--Thom