url URL date not supplied i feel so tremendously validated right now in all my criticisms of netscape vs mozilla i told netscape management that if the netscape beta shipped without popup blocking that cnet would write an article on it they didn t believe me or didn t care sure enough the article appeared right on time NUMBER i blogged about two main annoyances when installing netscape NUMBER the lack of popup blocking and all of the annoying advertising spam on the desktop and in the toolbars i warned netscape that they needed to take steps to correct this problem they didn t listen take a look at the cnet review NUMBER highlight that describes the bad part of netscape NUMBER NUMBER _displays aol ads everywhere doesn t let you turn off pop up windows like mozilla does devours NUMBERmb of disk space _ plenty of other engineers at netscape as well as managers complained about these problems and fought with those higher up to correct these problems we lost every battle the simple truth is that the people in charge of running the netscape browser are incompetent they don t understand how to make a good browser or they don t care their engineers tell them what they re doing wrong and they don t listen maybe you ll listen to the public how about eweek s article netscape NUMBER NUMBER shrivels under mozilla s shadow NUMBER are you paying attention now you ignorant stupid incompetent buffoons i told you so never felt so good maybe they will sit up and take notice now if they do well it s about fucking time and people wonder why i quit working for aol NUMBER URL NUMBER URL NUMBER URL 