lunarmonger wrote:
Well if it does not fix itself I believe there are other browsers you can try although I am not that familiar with everything out there. If you go to netscape.com I believe you can still get an earlier verions of the mozilla browser that would have its own engine, cookies and such and may not have the same bugs. Maybe some one else here can suggest others.
Netscape got bought by AOL. Netscape 8, also used by AOL, uses MSHTML.DLL to render. This comes down to basically IE with a Netscape skin. Netscape 5/6/7 is based on Mozilla. Earlier versions are based on Mozilla (Seamonkey) however as that complete suite was abandoned and the package was splitted in several components (Firefox for browsing, Thunderbird for e-mail/Usenet, etcetera) later versions of Netscape are based on Mozilla Firefox. Then there is Netscape Communicator 4 and Netscape Navigotor 3. These are based on Mozilla, but before the project went open source, in other words this is what the Mozilla family is based on nowadays however the Mozilla family is heavily improved throughout the years and the older out of date Netscape versions miss several standards and may not implement several standards from after 2001.
What it comes down to what i am saying here above is this: "not worth trying" / "not worth wasting your time on".
You could try Mozilla (Seamonkey), the complete suite. Regarding web-browsing it shares a lot of code with Mozilla Firefox though. You could also search the Bugzilla database to see if you recognize the bug, and if not, submit it. That way the bug, assuming its in the browser and not Neopets, may be fixed in Firefox 2.0.
You could also try a different browser but your options are limited: Opera is one. Pretty known nowadays. Another one is Konqueror which works on UNIX operating systems and perhaps in a year or so on Windows. MacOSX comes with Safari; Safari is almost completely derived and compatible with Konqueror as its based on its rendering engine, KHTML. But that doesn't work on Microsoft Windows and Konqueror on that OS is future talk.
I'm using several extensions in my Firefox. You may find that some conflict with some websites such as Neopets. If you stumble upon a bug, try to reset everything to default settings. Create a second profile and use that, just to see if it works correctly then.
For example i am using a cookie extension. I block all cookies by default. When i want to accept a cookie i click in my statusbar "accept cookies this session" or "always accept cookies". This is user-friendly and easy for me, while not getting too many cookies which i never asked for. However this mechanism
does not work with the telescope for whatever reason. So when i use the telescope i go to Tools -> Options -> Privacy -> Cookies -> And there i accept all cookies from all sites (incl non-original / 3rd party) and then the telescope works. Afterwards i put this off again.
You may also just use a different browser for parts which do not work on Neopets.