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From: Ben <s350818@student.uq.edu.au>
Subject: Re: BEWARE OF NETSCAPE 95!!
Date: 1997/07/09
Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.970709204948.26543B-100000@student.uq.edu.au>#1/1
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The only problem I had when I uninstalled it was that the previous
netscape browser(netscape nav 3.01) wouldn't work so to get around this I
put it in a separate directory then installed the newer version!






On Sat, 5 Jul 1997 pokey@annex.com wrote:

> Well, actually thats always been the case!
> 
> John wrote:
> > 
> > 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!
> 
> 

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