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

10:03AMEnglish

keep guy. thanks for your hard working

5:18PMTechmonger

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

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.

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?

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.

12:10AMJorge Cado

Congratulations for the new Netscape 9.0, but why don't you guys make a full Communicator Suite again? Just like in the old times, with Mail & Nwesgroups, Adress Book, Instant Messenger, IRC Chat, etc. etc. so we don't have to look for another "multibrowser".

PLEASE, listen to what an alltime Netscape user (since Version 1.0 and I still have the original disk to prove it) thinks about it.

Netscape was the State in the Art of the Communicator Suites, why not again?

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