The Mozilla Museum

Note: this site hasn't really been worked on after 2000. Netscape is history, but I will always remember it as a pioneer in browsing.

Welcome to the Mozilla Museum (or the Mozilla zoo, if you prefer). It is a collection of pictures of Mozilla painted by Vincent van Mozh. Mozilla was the mascot of the Netscape company in the early days; he gradually went away, because he was scared of the pinstriped suits.

Legal note: Netscape does not condemn or approve these pages, but those pictures are probably copyrighted by them. "Mozilla" is a trademark of Netscape Communications Corporation.

Experience an old browser without installing it!

My Opinions on some browsers

I tested Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0

I tested Communicator 4.x . It looks "cool" but I have reluctantly installed it only after having switched to a new computer. I miss two important features that were in the previous version: 1. to send a HTML file as text (important if you send newspaper articles to people without browser), 2. to switch with CTRL-TAB (doesn't work in the composer window). Netscape responded to me about (2), they say it is a feature and will keep it, and that CTRL-TAB is used to insert a TAB into a table cell.

I tested and bought Opera 4 . It is very fast, uses less space and offers only what you really need. I tested it and I liked it, but I'm staying with Mozilla as I need some of its "power features" like the web editor. What I liked most is the CTRL-SHIFT-Click feature, this makes it easy to download lots of pages in the background, which I use then reading newspapers on the web. I disliked:

I cannot scroll with the <SPACE> key (has been added in Opera 6)

Error messages come as a dialog box, and not as a normal window

<F3> key does not have same behaviour as in other software (continue search)

Direction of Windows switching is the opposite of Netscape

No "Super-Reload" available - this means that if a page is not correctly loaded in the cache, you won't be able to get a correct copy. (In Netscape you do SHIFT-RELOAD)

Here are pages with lots of images that will crash Mozilla in low memory conditions, or will beat the hell out of your internet connection. Set "Options", "Connections", "Number of connections" to a high number, like 20.

19.7.1995: geek site of the day by Scott Ruthfield:

I've heard women go wild for a web browsing expert 16.10.1995: Bob's Kool Link by Bob Allison at his BOBAWORLD site (no longer exists today)

1.10.1996: Winner of Europe's Cool Site of the Day (no longer exists) award

1.10.1996, 3pm PST: Cool Site of the Hour award by Cool Central (no longer exists)

(no longer exists) 29.1.1997: kEwL Site Award from the kEwL kOrNeR (no longer exists), after I nominated myself

26.10.1996: The Médaille d'Or for Web Site Excellence (no longer exists)

(no longer exists) 21.6.1999: "Duct Tape of the Net" award from the Ohio State University student organisation (no longer exists)