Netscape 7.0 is Out 632
MrJones was one of many many users to submit that Netscape has released
Navigator 7.0 unto the world. With their dwindling market share, it'll be interesting to see what affect this has on internet users. But here's hoping it makes a dent.
6, 6.1, 7? (Score:3, Interesting)
Netscape 7 life expectancy (Score:3, Interesting)
I hope that the Netscape 6.x fiasco hasn't ruined 7.x's chances of making a resonable dent. Netscape 7.0 is everyting 6.0 should have been (and then some).
Long live Mozilla based browsers!
Did they fix the #1 bug? (Score:2, Interesting)
All you have to do to fix it is close and reopen, but it's really annoying.
Please, AOLTW, switch to NS from IE for AOL.. (Score:5, Interesting)
As a webdesigner, a web game [sourceforge.net] developer, and as an internet user, please for the love of God, start the browser war back up.
When we have competition, at a scale over 20% for the browser, we will FINALLY see standards begin to matter!
AOL needs to:
- Aggressively work with computer makers to ship NS as the default browser in place of IE. More power to them if they also get AOL on it.
- Aggressively work to woo corporations to using Netscape again. Thats where Netscape was immensely powerful before, and where they can be again!
- Replace AOL's IE rendering engine with NS. They began with a closed beta, continued to Compuserve, moved it to AOL 4 Macs, now they need to do it on ALL of AOL.
With that, we may see a reverse in the tides. ANYTHING short of all of that, and it will be just a ripple.
PLEEEEEASE AOL, NS7 *IS READY*!
My Mozilla story (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Steroptypical response (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Mozilla needs to be advertised! (Score:3, Interesting)
Mozilla is not a good browser (Score:2, Interesting)
So I tossed it off and went back to Opera. No fuss, no muss, no big issues. Opera just works. And when I get my home system back up and running, Linux will be running Opera as well.
I've used Mozilla off and on since M12 or something like that, and never liked how it felt or handled. Netscape 4.x was ok for me, but not Mozilla. But that's just one opinion on the land of trolls and thoughtful posters.
No more roaming access (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:6, 6.1, 7? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Please, AOLTW, switch to NS from IE for AOL.. (Score:3, Interesting)
If NS/Mozilla is going to win this "browser war", they'll have to do it by creating a better product (which I believe they are on track to do). More "aggressive" marketing will only embitter people as MS has done with its omnipresent IE.
Re:Shouldn't do that (Score:2, Interesting)
I'd leave my user agent as Mozilla 5, but then I'd have to shut down Mozilla to set the user agent every time I suspected a descrimination problem. I suppose they should really add a user-agent selector in Mozilla.
Re:Please, AOLTW, switch to NS from IE for AOL.. (Score:2, Interesting)
"What browser are you using?"
"Uhmm... the new AOL"
"Right, uhm, okay, we'll have to fix it then"
Note, though, that I'm not an American :)
Re:Please, AOLTW, switch to NS from IE for AOL.. (Score:1, Interesting)
If AOL were swift, they would have NS7 display the refusal text in a frame which says ``Your brower is working properly. The webpage you wished to access is not working properly. Please call the party responsible for the web page.''
This would take some fancy work to parse every page, or every page which was redirected, and it would generate some false positives, but it would also generate a lot of calls to IE-chauvinist banks, and then a lot of calls to those banks' webmasters from bank vice-presidents, and the calls would run somthing like this:
VP: A customer says our website is broken.
WM: It works fine for us!
VP: Mrs. Besserwisser says if she can't use AOL with her account, she'll switch banks! I don't CARE if it works for you! MAKE IT WORK FOR HER! click.
Re:Can we harass the CapitalOne's??? (Score:3, Interesting)
In case bugzilla gobbles up the slashdot link, cut and paste from here:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?i
Re:NS Communicator 4.8? (Score:1, Interesting)
It seems that 4.79 and 4.80 are the only ones that work in this context. Instead of Sun making a compatible server, they decided to fill the server with loads of JavaScript and *afterwards* make browsers that work with it. That just got to need some balls to do.
I'd be soon out of web business if my work wouldn't work with Win98&IE.
Let's see if NS7 is any different than NS7PR1 and Moz1.1 in respect to the otherwise very handy looking iPlanet.
Re:CNet Review - "Don't switch browsers" (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Stability? (Score:3, Interesting)