Netscape 8 is out

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 6:49 pm

www.netscape.com

It's 12MB and isn't bloated by the mail client, AOL messenger *OR* winamp. Thank Goodness.

It's a nice looking package - imports ALL your settings from whatever browser you choose.

Has a nice customizable interface, and a nice GUI.

It's Firefox 1.0 with a new skin and some extra features.

One of the nice features is the Right Click option to "Display like Internet Explorer" which re-renders the page using the IE rendering engine. You can switch back to Gecko any time you like.

I guess uptake will be poor - based on the (lack of) success of Netscape 7.0 - but we might see some old netscape users switch from firefox to NS8 possibly.

One truly GREAT thing for me as a developer is not having to worry about Netscape any more - as it uses Gecko - and we understand that engine very well now.

Destiny777 · Post by **Destiny777** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 6:58 pm

I'm using Firefox 1.0.1 and Netscape 7.2 up until now.

Really like the Mozilla Web Browsers.

Will check it out... Thanks for the link dude.

Top Wop · Post by **Top Wop** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 9:11 pm

ANYTHING better than the sorry excuse that IE is, its ok by me.

Fusion · Post by **Fusion** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 9:17 pm

Been a Netscape Fan since Ver 4. Certainly be interested in it. Mac and PC updated?

Fus

Nitrofox125 · Post by **Nitrofox125** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 9:52 pm

That "View Like Internet Explorer" function is awfully handy, as I too am a web developer and frequently see my websites chewed up and spit out by the IE rendering engine.

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 5:24 pm

I really want to know why MS doesn't just reskin/rebrand Firefox, bring back the ActiveX control support for FF, and leave it at that.

Nitrofox125 · Post by **Nitrofox125** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 5:48 pm

They're far too proud.

Top Wop · Post by **Top Wop** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 8:25 pm

You are forgetting, DCrazy, that it is MS's perogative to put out products half-assed. Its survival depends not on its products or its advertising (it has done!), but penetrating nearly every market with ether a "me too!" product or simply putting something out there just to have it there and forget about it afterwards. If a competetor is a serious threat or MS does not have the talent todo it themselves, they can even buy a company out and sit on its assets and do absolutely nothing with it or impliment it horribly.

Jeff250 · Post by **Jeff250** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 3:09 pm

Hopefully this does away with that lingering Netscape-4-using minority.

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 5:11 pm

TW, according to your logic, MS would be quick to do just as I say. I think Nitro may have the best explanation: they're too proud.

Either that or they have too much invested in the IE team to fire half of them and tell the other half to port FF.

Pun · Post by **Pun** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 7:14 pm

it's "prerogative"

Kyouryuu · Post by **Kyouryuu** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 12:49 am

I liked the Netscape 7.x line, actually. Curious to try 8. All it links to is a Beta version?