First Peek at Netscape Navigator 9

lisah writes "Netscape released a beta version of Navigator 9 (Linux.com shares corporate overlordship with Slashdot) today that includes several new components while giving some old ones the boot. This release will no longer ship with mail or composer but does have URL correction, a pre-populated RSS feed menu, and a neat clipboard in the browser's sidebar that will hold links to websites you want to visit again but not necessarily bookmark."

Bookmarks are dead

[solevita]

Netscape confirms it.

Clipboard feature in FF or SM

[chemindefer]

"...a neat clipboard in the browser's sidebar that will hold links to websites you want to visit again but not necessarily bookmark."

I do this in Firefox or Seamonkey by putting a folder called Temp in my Bookmarks toolbar, to which links can be dragged.

Re:Netscape is dead

[MrMr]

I think the correct way to phrase that question is:

WHAT IS AOL????

I think I speak for everyone here when I say

[commodoresloat]

NetWho? Is that some sort of Mozilla knockoff?

How well does it work with Napster?

[Scrameustache]

Wasn't Netscape a cheap ISP for a while? Now it's a browser again?
I'm confused.

Re:Netscape is dead

[wbren]

You're both wrong. The correct phrasing is: WHAT IS AOL????!!?!!!!111

Re:Netscape is dead

[Anonymous Coward]

What is AOL?

It's the company that makes Winamp. They used to make free backup diskettes that you had to reformat before using. They sent hundreds of millions of them around for free by attaching them to anything that moved. I used to have to peel them off my car each night when I got home from work. Later, they got into the landfill business by making and distributing hundreds of millions of non re-writeable CD's.

Re:Clipboard feature in FF or SM

[suv4x4]

I do this in Firefox or Seamonkey by putting a folder called Temp in my Bookmarks toolbar, to which links can be dragged.

The point of this feature is you can clipboard links which you WANT to visit again, but do NOT want to bookmark. That's quite an innovation in my opinion.

I also heard they plan in Netscape 10 to introduce a place where you put links which you WANT to visit, but do NOT want to bookmark and do NOT want to clipboard.

Next to this, they plan to introduce a "address board" - a place where you can type links to visit, but you do NOT want to type them in the address bar.

Is this going to be the one

[ClosedSource]

that is written from the ground up in Java to blow away IE 4.0?