Netscape 7.0 released!

Downloads for Mac, Windows and Linux on ftp.netscape.com

[luma]

You can now download Netscape 7.0. It's based on Mozilla 1.0.1. New features include "tabbed browsing" and you can send instant messages to ICQ and AIM users.

ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape7/english/7.0/

[Knowles]

Sounds cool, I might download it tonight.

[Macguru]

Thank you luma!

Any can pick other languages at the bottom of this page.

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[starway]

>>New features include "tabbed browsing"...

Hello from Opera!

[PaulPaul]

I downloaded it already, looks good. Check it out guys.

[Macguru]

Certainly got good reviews here from the pre-release version.

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[Crescendo]

Seems good so far. A shame there aren't a wide range of Themes to download - still just TWO! Yet Mozilla has dozens.

New Netscape logo too!

Having used Mozilla 1.0 for a while, I'm used to things like tabbed browsing, so there's little new here. But at least we finally have a version of Netscape we can recommend people upgrade to from version 4!

[txbakers]

Does anyone think that a version 7.0 will save this dying browser? I'm not really interested in seeing it at all.

[Son_House]

I for one am glad to see Netscape 7. My mom has been using 4.* since she got her pc about 4 years ago. Netscape 6 was to unstable so I did not want her to use that but with the release of 7, now she has a new browser.

Now I can also recommend it to the people that visit our site.

Does anyone think that a version 7.0 will save this dying browser? I'm not really interested in seeing it at all.

I think it has a chance if people hear good things about it. I think AOL really shot themselves in the foot when they released 6.0 when it was clearly not ready for prime time. Version 7 is so much better than 6 but people need to hear that it is better.

[edited by: Son_House at 2:47 am (utc) on Aug. 30, 2002]

[PaulPaul]

I have to agree Netscape 7, is one of the better releases from Netscape in quite some time.

[jdMorgan]

Is it just me, or is NN7.0 much faster than 6.21?

Jim

[PaulPaul]

It works much better for me also.

[jdMorgan]

OK,

I've been using NN7.0 for 8 hours now, and I've found:

It's very fast - faster than the most recent Mozilla 1.1 release, maybe even as fast as Opera.

It still has the old "drag the Bookmarks icon down and drop it into the page display area and watch what happens" bug that was fixed in Mozilla 1.1, meaning that Netscape probably used Mozilla 1.0 to build their "branded" version.

But they sure have sped it up a bunch!

Anybody else find any interesting new bugs or features?

Jim

[Learning Curve]

A very nice upgrade.

Some nice improvements to the e-mail client as well. I use their e-mail client to avoid Outlook viruses.

I might use 7.0 as my primary browser except it won't handle the Google toolbar (yet?). That's a deal breaker.

Other random features that may be important:
- Makes it much easier for Joe Surfer to delete all cookies
- Bookmark handling is much improved

[Macguru]

Does beat Opera for Mac by far. I would not say it's faster than Opera on Windows. Still miss a lot of useful features Opera includes. (like pop-ups killer)

Still waiting for the Mac and Linux versions in French...

[pshea]

Been using it for a few days since reading here. Upgraded from 4.7, but on Win98, it is so much SLOWER! Surprised you folks saying faster. Did you tweak it in some way? I didn't install the ICQ or AOL plugins. I also have popupstopper installed and this new version lets a lot of popups squeak through. All I want is fast and clean.