January 24th 2007

Netscape 9.0 Teaser

What you are looking at is a draft of the main toolbar of Netscape 9.0, running on Windows XP.

Netscape 9 will be a standalone browser, and from this screenshot, you can infer several things: unlike Netscape 8, Netscape 9 will contain more standardized support for newsfeeds (a.k.a. Live Bookmarks); it will also have tight integration with the Netscape.com service, as evidenced by the icons for the two available Netscape.com extensions (Friends' Activity Sidebar and the Sitemail Notifier). Several Netscape.com-based extensions will be built into the browser; only these two have been previously announced.

I'll be posting a new announcement, feature teaser, or progress report right here each Tuesday, so stay tuned.

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2:29PMThomas

Will this one be Mac friendly?

2:56PMjeremy liew

Congratulations! Am looking forward to a refresh of NS browser.

4:42PMAlex Rudloff

Keep up the great work guys!

7:45AMBhupen

I have been using Netscape since it's birth!
With the fully integration with my default page Netscape.com,
I now believe I can now fly!! Thanks a bunch guys.

8:18PMS Ashouri

I truly hope it has Unicode IDN integration -- Only reason IE7 received an applause from me, and FireFox 2.0 received a frown.

It would be nice to view IDNs in their NATIVE form and not in punycode (xn--whatever.com)

- Sam

5:18PMTechmonger

It might be me, but that (the screenshot) really reminds me of Firefox.

10:03AMEnglish

keep guy. thanks for your hard working

5:22PMRob

Will it be Windows Vista compatible?

3:29PMNaodjs

"I truly hope it has Unicode IDN integration -- Only reason IE7 received an applause from me, and FireFox 2.0 received a frown. " - afaik this is highly unsafe, as there are many unicode characters that look similar to roman letters, but have different codes. One can buy a domain like 'gοogle.com' (note that first "o" is a greek character with code U+03BF) and user would think he browses real google pages. Besides, you can use idn with firefox, it is enough to switch one option in about:config.

7:13PMIoannis

That's good news. However, why don't you guys make a full Communicator Suite again? With email and everything?

Why would someone have so many different programs for so many different jobs?

Greetings from a dedicated Netscape Communicator 7.2 user.

9:46PMUncleD

Techmonger: The "Go" menu item was changed in Firefox 2 to "History". Note the menu item in the screenshot.

2:19PMAleksey

Good news! However, people developing Flock browser are also aiming at the social aspect of browsers. I wonder if Netscape can regain some of its market share through this innovation.
Also, what Firefox version will NS9 be based on?

12:46AMVaradinum

great work guys!

3:40AMbilgi

what about the micforsoft vista ? Will it be Windows Vista compatible?

2:07AMMardus

I think people should not worry too much as to Netscape 9's compatibility with Windows Vista. Once it's released, there will be an appropriate announcement.

There's the x64 requirement that is also to be met.

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