http://browser.netscape.com/nsb/download/default.jsp
ugly, bloated, buggy, and windows-only...
who uses netscape?
Oh no, it crashes on startup under VMware! :(
I was curious to see how quickly I could break it, but that was too easy.
Why is Netscape still trying? Anyone know? I'm serious...
Because AOL thinks it still has a chance.
I mean, christ, everything AOL touches turns to shit. Look at Winamp.
Winamp 3 was a resounding failure, but Winamp 5 is quite awesome.
Except for the bit about eating 100% CPU and still lagging graphically, I agree.
Your computar machene must be broken, because it does none of that for me.
Nope, just old. My fastest Windows (2k) box runs on a 333 MHz Celeron. Well below the minimum hardware requirements, I know, but how much CPU does Winamp5 consume even on a 1+ GHz box? I'm not sure I want everything else to be 50% slower because I'm listening to music while I work.
Classic mode is lighter, but I want my eyecandy...
And then, for the truly hardcode speed-demon, there's mpg123.
Joke aside, what's so important about eyecandy? Are you sitting there watching your player play?
Getting distracted helps me get unstuck when I find myself going over the same logic again and again and coming up with nothing new. Tastefully done eyecandy can be very distracting without being annoying.
There's also the less utilitarian application of making my hardware appear higher tech than it is.
On my 1.4 GHz machine, Winamp 5 is using below 1% while playing (task manager shows 0%, and says it's used about 3 minutes of CPU time out of 4 hours or so of uptime, when playing constantly). Even a 333 Mhz machine should not be significantly burdened by it unless something is wrong.