General Q on Email with the O.S. that came with the Mac and using Netscape email

[joeeye]

I want to be able to email just like I can with what came with my Mac notebook but with another web browser other than the Safari, what a huge let down, I can't believe that I paid HUGE $$$$ for this 17 inch Mac Notebook and that it came with that Safari for the web browser, never again...

Or will Safari change for the better if I was to buy another type of Mac software that would make Safari more complete with all the buttons, bells & whistles, like hoping it will pick up more that it can do with it, like get the web surfing folders on the same page, and a few other nice options I wish it had. I say that perhaps by adding another software package because when you first buy and try Windows the email does not have spell check until you buy and load Office or Word or what ever else....

I did load a free Netscape web browser that works pretty good and looks to be what I want, but I don't want to use their proprietary email address, so I can't do a "mail this link" because it opens their proprietary email, so I have to open Safari to send a link so to keep things correct using the email thats proprietary to my ISP.

I don't think I can change SMTP and POP settings in the Free version of Netscape, thats like trying to change the email settings in Yahoo now, or can I do that???

What can I do? I can't find some good free web browser to use that will let me keep the email that came with the mac notebook, the Safari is horrible, perhaps someone can recommend where to go, or even what to load from Apple that can juice up the Safari?

If you have a new Mac please tell me what you have fine tuned it into? I'd like to try the freeware by Mac, but if there is something I should buy thats not a problem as long as its worth it to round off this notebook I've become disappointed with this Mac notebook with the Safari compared to what comes with Windows.

Now I don't want to bash Mac too soon being I'm still new to it, but this is truth so far, perhaps there is free software waiting at the Apple web site I don't know about that would make things better.

Please let me know what freeware or paid software all you Mac users have gotten, even from Apple.

plus what is being used by all to type letters and light office type work, I don't need anything heavy duty for that.

thanks for the help, Joe

[Nataku]

Safari is a great browser, but I prefer firefox!

And by downloading netscape you were asking for problems... all web browsers are free so take your pick and don't complain because that's what CAME with the mac. just download what ever you want to use.

Why don't you just use an email client like apple's MAIL or Thunderbird... instead of webmail.

anyway, I'll let Chris field this one as I'm busy at work right now...

P.S. "I've become disappointed with this Mac notebook with the Safari compared to what comes with Windows." you know IE is what comes with windows and is the worst browser in the world right? if your used to using outlook, by office for the mac and you get outlook (under the name entourage).

[joeeye]

Okay, thats good to know that Outlook Express comes with Mac's "Office" software, I believe thats what I'll end up doing as I fine tune this notebook the way I want it.

Good to hear you like Firefox and mentioned it, I took a look and it and some of the others like Camino, they all looked like they have more to offer in the way of web surfing and fine tuning to the way I'd like it set up, where with Safari when I first used it I found it was very basic with no buttons so to speak, very disapointed at first not knowing I had an easier way out, they all look to have the same foot print in design where Safari is the most basic strip down version compared to Firefox, Camino, and all the others that looked like they were set up to be very nice web browsers. Not knowing this with the thought I was stuck with Safari, then having to keep dumping more money is what had me very disappointed, I would never haved guessed that I needed to just pick out another web server.

thanks for the help...