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TidBITS#465/01-Feb-99

Netscape and Microsoft have updated their Web browsers recently, but are you taking full advantage of the new features? This week Adam looks in detail at what’s new and improved (or new and lousy) in the two Web browsing behemoths. Also this week, Jeff Carlson examines eMerge, a program that lets you use mail merge features for personalizing email. In the news, Connectix updates Virtual Game Station despite being sued by Sony, and Bare Bones releases BBEdit 5.0.2.

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Free BBEdit 5.0.2 Update Available

Free BBEdit 5.0.2 Update Available -- Bare Bones Software has released a BBEdit 5.0.2 update, free to registered owners of BBEdit 5.0 or 5.0.1. The 5.0.2 update rolls BBEdit's FTP client into the main application, and includes a number of fixes to BBEdit and its HTML tools, along with support for nestable include files and the capability to select multiple items in many of BBEdit's browser windows

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Driving the 4.5 Web Browsers

Web browsers are probably among the least upgraded pieces of software, despite being essentially free and frequently updated. The TidBITS Web site still sees about 1,000 hits per week from people using MacWeb, a now-defunct Web browser bundled with early editions of Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh