March 20th 2007

Netscape 9's Sidebar Browser

Posted by Chris Finke

› tags: browser, mini browser, my.netscape, netscape 9, sidebar, sidebar browser

In Netscape 9, we've built upon Firefox's option to load a bookmark in the sidebar by extending sidebar browsing to all links. (Right click on any link and choose "Open Link in Sidebar;" you can also drag and drop a link onto the sidebar if it is already open.)

In order to properly support this feature, we've enhanced the sidebar browser by adding a navigation menu, address bar, and link target toggle. The default link target is to have all links clicked in the sidebar launch in the main browser window, which is best suited for a single webpage that has lots of outgoing links (like your My.Netscape page, example shown below). You can also choose to toggle this and just browse in the sidebar as if it was a regular browser window.

My.Netscape in the sidebar; click to view the full image.

The sidebar browser can be opened with a toolbar button, a hot-key combination, or via the View > Sidebar menu.

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Comments

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7:11AMbudowa domów

Good article and site. Congratulations

12:51AMsheds

That's an awesome change, I think i'm going to retry netscape, i've been devoted to firefox for about 12 months but i'm always looking for a change.

9:55AM1

the very thing i like is all this innovation you guys are making from time to time.

9:44AMyoga

i agreed with you 1.

9:45AMsenior health

nice

10:00AMbusiness

good

10:03AMcelebrities

great change

11:35AMerekcja

great news. It's so great

11:59AMpozycjonowanie

it looks superb and i think it's the first step of netscape 9 and next serious

4:49PMsohbet

I think this could be interesting, but like the last commenter, I'm worried about Netscape just copying Firefox (and maybe not doing it as well -- although I hope you do). This could be very useful, however, particularly if you're able to make some improvements on what Firefox was able to do.!!!!

4:50PMsohbet

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