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To the persons wondering about a suite: check out seamonkey! New release lately, works *just fine*
To Netscape-skip the ad/spy/spamware in the install, or you'll be laughed at again. And this is coming from someone who actually dropped 40 bucks for your browser a long time ago
How will this differ from Firefox? What is the point of making yet another browser instead of joining forces with Firefox and maybe pre-bundling it with your own theme and extension set? Is there any coordination going on between this project and the Firefox project? Will Firefox extensions work with the Netscape 9 browser? Will it be available for Solaris?
RSS Live Booksmarks... lol. Thats only good thing.
Will there be a beta or alpha version available in the future?
A great article on this: http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=20397
Any idea when and where there will be a public release (Alpha/Beta) available?
Netscape is a joke. The site redesign has driven me away. Lack of support for Linux in v8.x was a real blessing since it was such a piece of useless junk compared to Firefox or Konquerer. And, now that my @netscape.net mail has been forced over to an AOL mail account(which I am evaluating whether to finally change it after 7 years or so), I get dumped out to the AOL.COM page instead of netscape, even though I log in to mail.netscape.com. I also found it(and it WASN'T explained) that if I re-login through the AOL page, my address defaults to the @aim.com address that I don't want, didn't ask for, and try to ensure is never used. I've been waiting for AOL to tell us that we are losing the @netscape.net address before too long. Netscape was a great product once. It's went downhill too far to be saved.
- Bloated program versions from v6.x to now
- Countless site redesigns that have gotten worse each time(now it's a useless DIGG clone)
- Integration of the horrible bug ridden IE engine in v8.x(the reason I used Netscape was to avoid the stupidity of using a browser that was PART of the OS. Can we say PROBLEM?????)
- Lack of any clear vision or even reason to use the browser or the site. If it wasn't for my email address I would be long gone.
Anyway, like SpongeBob said: Well, Good Luck with that.
Is it a New World Order Push Feed Browser using Advanced Artificial Intelligence MetaData Parse Algorithms? A poisoned arrow to MicroSoft's achilles heel?
Such a sad waste of resources. We don't need another version of the slow, bloated Netscape suite. We already have Firefox. Just help them make it better.
It's all about efficient use of resources, and this isn't it.
I hope it has the mail program in it and mostly a new look!
The screenshot shown here is horrible! Hope it can use the latest Mozilla Themes...
Oh, and faster, please. I left Netscape 7.2 for SeaMonkey 1.1 which does the
same but faster and has a mail program.
I still use netscape 7.2, but netscape 8 is unstable like hell...
I hope the new one is less like ns8.
Please netscape, I want an ultra slim browser.
Will this version add the dynamic font support (PFR files) back? Netscape was the one who pioneered the dynamic font technology along with TrueDoc/Bitstream. That was way back in Version 4.xx. This technolgy was a great boon for non-English users. The beauty of this technology was that it worked on all platforms. Unfortunately they droppeed the support to dynamic fonts in Netscape 6.xx onwards. Now only Microsoft's EOT are the dynamic fonts available, and it works only on MS platforms/browser.
-Pavanaja
The last netscape release ran IE by default ......really
why call it netscape and use firefox code only to set IE engine by default
And then not even release a *nix version of any kind
there already exist a perfectly working firefox , why even do this ?
If anything i would suggest using webkit for the engine and releasing it on all 3
platforms linux, windows and mac ...maybe bsd also
Else this is as big a waste of time as the last release
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?