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Quick details: based on Firefox 1.0, Windows only, includes AIM client but no email client, allows up to ten personalized toolbars, does one-click IE rendering instead of using the Gecko engine, the interface looks like a dog's dinner and it apparently crashes if you so much as look at it funny.
It appears to be a simple cash-in on the old Netscape name, and they have given up building non-Windows versions where Mozilla and Firefox are already too well-known. Not sure I see the point, myself.
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Interesting GUI
Don't Like the shopping box
Don't like that bit underneath the N on the top left, All those numbers. THAT NEEDS TO GO Netscape.
Rendering Engine A++++ (displays my site ok)
America Online's Netscape team has opened its doors to the public, releasing the first beta of the revived Netscape Web browser. Based upon Firefox, Netscape version 8 focuses on security and user privacy, and supports rendering with both Mozilla's Gecko and Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser engines.
[edited by: tedster at 2:16 am (utc) on Mar. 4, 2005]
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does one-click IE rendering instead of using the Gecko engine
I don't like this idea for obvious reasons, but it could be a nice convenience feature for developers. On the whole, though, I believe I'll stick with using my standard installs of IE 4-6.
Netscape is dead. I flat out don't support it any more.
I'm seeing TV ads here for the Netscape ISP service, so AOL is putting some cash behind it.
Most noteworthy among Netscape's new features is its anti-fraud technology, especially growing threats such as phishing. The browser uses frequently updated blacklists of websites that are suspected of distributing spyware or hosting phishing schemes. The lists will be supplied by outside security researchers.
Hmmmm....
And I repeat...
Hmmm.
Netscape began by trying to make an Internet that users found easy to use. Today we offer integrations of intuitive digital tools, innovative attractions and infinite media content. The revolutionary new Netscape Browser 8 provides more security options, streamlines more standard browsing tasks and arms internet users with more timesaving solutions to their browsing needs than any other browser...Important Features
- Tabbed Browsing
- Site Controls
- Multi-Bar
- Form Fill/Passcard
- Live Content
[edited by: tedster at 5:38 pm (utc) on Mar. 6, 2005]
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For a version history, see this thread:
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(Thanks anyway.)
It is really at a beta stage.
They've no excuse for using a bad user agent string. It should have "Netscape 8" in whatever the rendering engine. (Opera can appear to be a wide range of browsers, but always adds "Opera" in the string.)
I hope they improve this before the final version ships.
