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.

We are continually reading through your feedback, and thank each and every one who has contributed constructively. Today My.Netscape got a small feature update addressing some significant concerns in the portfolio and bookmarks sections.


First, you can finally add indexes to your portfolio just by editing the module preferences and changing "Show market summary" to yes.


We also added renamed capability to the bookmark list. Simply click the title and it will turn into a textbox, change the name and hit <ENTER> and your done.

These two large changes as well as a new liquid layout and a host of other bug fixes will hopefully solve a lot of the issues some of you have had.

Thanks for all of the wonderful feedback for the new My.Netscape. For those of you who sent us constructive suggestions, today is the day that you will see some of your wants come to life.

We have been working hard this last week to address as many concerns as we possibly could. Based on your feedback, we have updated several aspects of the portfolio module, and added a bookmarks module.

With portfolios (Figure 1), we have added new information to the module display which includes daily values as well as overall net worth.

Figure 1: My Portfolios module