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Topic: Netscape 8

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Subject: Netscape 8
Date Posted: 13 March 2005 at 6:39am

Has anyone played around with the new Netscape 8 beta yet:-

http://browser.netscape.com/nsb/download/default.jsp

I've been messing around with it for about 10 minutes now and have found some quite good features with it.

It's based on Firefox 1, so should make all Firefox users happy, but it also has a very clever trick.

If you find that a pay doesn't load correctly in the Netscape 8, you can click a button on the tab at the top of the page and select to have the page re-rendered in the Ntescpae 8 browser window, but using the Internet Explorer engine instead!!

I haven't played around with it enough yet, but I maybe tempted into using it instead of Firefox.

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Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 13 March 2005 at 7:35am

I might give it a try but remember (i think) i heard that it is based on firefox 1 and not 1.0.1 with the security fixes. So there are some holes in it. Wink

Posted By: Bluefrog
Date Posted: 13 March 2005 at 7:37am

Sounds pretty slick... I use firefox almost exclusively (and LOVE it) - IE for pages that require it - but that new trick you mentioned is enough to get me to try it out. Netscape has been real junk in the past, but if I can switch engines - I'd only ever need 1 browser!

[ REJOICING NOISES ] ~ YEAH~! Big smile

The only thing that would be a deal killer would be mouse gestures - I can't live without those...

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Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 13 March 2005 at 7:43am

The beta looks pretty cool, the UI is a lot different to past netscapes, which IMHO is a good thing

Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 13 March 2005 at 7:49am

hmm the netscape rendering engine doesn't let me use my scroll wheel

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 13 March 2005 at 8:10am

Works fine for me, although in Firefox pressing the centre scroll wheel doesn't work, but in Netscape it dose. Stange Ermm

The one thing I have found in Netscape I don't like so far is for things like the emoticon window on this editor, forces the pop-up window to open in a new tab instead.

Also, if you get the browser version it says Firefox/0.9.6 rather than 1.0 or 1.01

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Posted By: Bluefrog
Date Posted: 13 March 2005 at 8:30am

NOT impressed with:

Crashed easily (beta - this is forgivable...)
Classmates ads? From nowhere? Sounds like spyware sh*t to me. (This might have been a window that I had closed that was serving NS popups from their own site)
Difficult to change home page - Netscape still comes up (beta issues? that is forgivable... but I'm skeptical)
Got a site working with 2 engines - didn't work. The IE engine switched to NS after about 3 clicks.
I dont' like the "File" menu on the right side of the screen. (minor point - not important)

Overall, it is seeming VERY beta to me. I've worked with beta and alpha, and this seemed more like an alpha version.

It did nothing to make me much fonder of NS. I'll stick with Firefox and IE for now, or at least until they work out some issues.

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Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 15 March 2005 at 1:13pm

Can firefox plugins be used like adblock?

Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 15 March 2005 at 1:46pm

nope