AOL will today unveil a prototype of its revived Netscape Browser, which serves as a test bed for several new features. The new Netscape is based on Firefox, but with a twist - it includes support for switching to Microsoft's IE engine. BetaNews has also learned that Netscape's development was not done in-house by AOL, but rather outsourced to Canadian software firm Mercurial Communications.
The Netscape prototype is built upon Mozilla Firefox 0.9.3, which means it utilizes the same user interface toolkit and Gecko browser engine. The browser's theme has been redone to match Netscape's traditional green style and, as expected, customized Netscape-specific extensions have been added to the toolbar offering weather and news headlines.
http://www.betanews.com/article/Netscape_Prototype_Supports_Firefox_IE/1101831853
Screenshots:
http://gemal.dk/blog/2004/11/30/netscape_browser_screenshots/
So....
They've taken Firefox, a bad release at that, which is now totally MPL, added a bunch of fucked up extensions that do nothing for you, and then smeared shit on it by integrating IE right into the core.
Oh, thats wonderful. Considering that this version of Netscape will only run on Windows... why don't you just stick to Firefox/Mozilla Suite, or IE? Why the hell would anyone want to use this? Even my mother, a long-time Netscape user (Back in the old days of Netscape 1.0) got sick of the old bloated Netscape and went to Mozilla (Back in 1.3). Now she hasn't gone back.
lol AOL
because someone is inevitably going to say it in this thread anyway, i'll just go ahead and get this out of the way right now...
i don't see what the big deal with <insert random list of browsers here> is. opera is obviously the best browser in the world. i just love that huge ass ad banner and the fact that it takes twice as long as firefox to start up. if you want a real browser, use opera.
...looks like someone has an axe to grind...
Twice as long for Firefox to load? Uh... not for me. Ever. And it's not like IE is any better - it eats your RAM with precaching anyways.
And as far as my platform, Linux/BSD goes, Firefox is the best browser there is.
>>6 fails reading comprehension
Netscape's day is long gone. It all went downhill after the bloatware crap that was Netscape 3. Let it die quietly, AOL Time Warner Turner HBO Cinemax TBS et al; the world has moved on, and so should you.
Opera should stick to cell phones and PDAs. The idea of paying for a web-browser to use on your desktop seems a bit 1990.
Personally, I love SPYGLASS and OMNIWEB. None this memory hogging CSS for me.
There's always Dillo...
Amazingly enough, I'm seeing a couple people visiting with Dillo.
Heh... when I must use a lightweight browser for some reason, I use Links (not Lynx). It's definitely not something for which I'd have patience for day-to-day browsing, though... but it's good to use over a SSH connection to my web server to spy on the enemy after my own IP has been banned from a forum or something. :D
I think maybe why people willingly use browsers like Dillo is because they're paranoid about security, so they don't use browsers that support cookies when they don't have to... just a guess.
And don't understand that the "Enable cookies for originating site only" in Firefox solves pretty much every security problem with cookies?
links -g wins the internet
Well, that might be it, except that it's possible to get cookies in Dillo, and most browsers allow you to disable cookies outright.
I rarely use Dillo, but the reason I do sometimes use it is just raw speed. Dillo loads up almost instantly for me even if not in cache, which isn't the case for any other browser. It's 1/4 the size of links too. If all I want is a quick detail off google and my regular browser isn't open, that's what I use.
I wouldn't use it for regular browsing though.
Well, I'm sure the people using it for regular surfing have their reasons.