The official Netscape Blog has announced that Netscape 9 is under development, and just like the current version, it will presumably be based on Mozilla Firefox. According to the announcement, Netscape 9 will be a standalone browser and will have extension integration with the Netscape.com website (Digg clone). Unlike version 8, Netscape 9 will be available simultaneously for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X in the “next month or two”. The Netscape 9 announcement includes a small screenshot (the menu bar indicates that it's based on Firefox 2) and states that the browser will borrow Firefox implementations such as Live Bookmarks, Netscape Friends' Activity Sidebar and the Netscape Sitemail Notifier.
Netscape once again employs its own programming staff (development of Netscape Browser 8 was outsourced to Mercurial Communications) and the company is also considering resuming support for features like Netscape Mail and Netscape Composer. New information about Netscape 9 will be released every Tuesday; the first such update was the announcement that the browser will be cross-platform, coupled with a screenshot of a stylish new FTP view. Will AOL's steps be enough to halt Netscape’s continuous browser market share decline (from its original 80% in the mid-Nineties)?
Link: Forum Discussion (Thanks MchWalte)
View: Teaser
News source: mozillaZine
Netscape once again employs its own programming staff (development of Netscape Browser 8 was outsourced to Mercurial Communications) and the company is also considering resuming support for features like Netscape Mail and Netscape Composer. New information about Netscape 9 will be released every Tuesday; the first such update was the announcement that the browser will be cross-platform, coupled with a screenshot of a stylish new FTP view. Will AOL's steps be enough to halt Netscape’s continuous browser market share decline (from its original 80% in the mid-Nineties)?
Link: Forum Discussion (Thanks MchWalte) View: Teaser News source: mozillaZine
Please, I remember the 4.x series; it was absolutely crap; java and javascript both used to lock up the browser, illegal operations thrown left right and centre, crappy threading, slow performance, lack of standards support - it was a friggin nightmare, and ultimately it was those 'qualities' which killed Netscape.
I thought it completely died out years ago.
AOL back in the day (1995-1997area, give or take) used to be atleast decent even if it was a little bloated... nowadays it's just flat out AWFULL.... it (as u know) installs SOOO much stuff without "asking" you what you want to install.
and also (as im sure you know)... dialup users can get like local type dialup for 10 dollars a month with ANY bs installed on there pc's and generally offers better speeds with more reliable connections.... i used to use onehop.com for my dialup internet ... now they are actually good and dont screw with you... even when i canceled they canceled immediately when i asked and did not screw with me at all... only reason i cancelled with them was cause i got dsl for only 5 dollars more than i was paying for dialup (15 dollars vs 10 dollars) and i get litterally 8 times the speed (dialup = about 5KB/s , vs my current DSL of 40KB/s)
Last edited by ThaCrip on 06 Feb 2007 - 06:53
They give the user options now if they want to install the AOL Toolbar, AOL Desktop Search - to name a few. Even if extras to get installed, they are always uninstallable and not life threatening.
They give the user options now if they want to install the AOL Toolbar, AOL Desktop Search - to name a few. Even if extras to get installed, they are always uninstallable and not life threatening.
How about this idea; don't include the damn thing in the first place.
Winamp seems to be one of the few things that haven't been butchered by the halfwitts at AOL; get rid of the ads, get rid of the bloat; give me a messenger without intrusive ads, give me browser without 100s of adware components - if you can't make a buck the good old fashioned honest way, then you should do us all a favour and closet up shop.
Netscape hasn't offered the web community anything for a long time and now that they're basing it on FF, they could save the time and effort of making a browser clone and just use FF.
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