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Has anyone tried using the new Netscape 8 browser? I have it installed but seem to be having this weird issue. I went into settings and selected Internet Explorer as it's rendering engine. However, it seems to want to default back to firefox engine even though IE is still selected as it's rendering engine. Has anyone else experienced this?

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Has anyone tried using the new Netscape 8 browser?  I have it installed but seem to be having this weird issue.  I went into settings and selected Internet Explorer as it's rendering engine.  However, it seems to want to default back to firefox engine even though IE is still selected as it's rendering engine.  Has anyone else experienced this?

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You should be using the Gecko engine for everything except trusted sites (like microsoft.com).

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Well, Netscape 8.0 was released with Firefox's 1.0.3 browser engine. There was some serious security flaws with that version hence Firefox releasing, 1.0.4. So who knows what Netscape will do now.

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Well, Netscape 8.0 was released with Firefox's 1.0.3 browser engine.  There was some serious security flaws with that version hence Firefox releasing, 1.0.4.  So who knows what Netscape will do now.

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Netscape 8.0.1, released a few hours after the initial 8.0 release, includes all fixes from Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4.

http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/security/alerts.jsp

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Netscape 8.0.1, released a few hours after the initial 8.0 release, includes all fixes from Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4.

http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/security/alerts.jsp

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Well, that's good, I didn't hear about that. Thanks for pointing it out. Since that has happened, I will reinstall Netscape. I just wish it wasn't such a big resource hog.

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I am using Netscape 8 and i don't have AOL Media Player installed on my system. :)

I really like Netscape 8 and i am waiting for there update that shall come around soon. :rolleyes:

/ Jimmy

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except the fancy skin, i don't see any other reason why you should use netscape

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And i don't see any reason on you criticizing he's choice on using netscape, it seems like a damn trend these days on bashing netscape or questioning the user choice for that matter. netscape 8 is not that bad and it's actually better than the previous versions, granted it still buggy and a big resource hog what software isn't though. now i assume the next major netscape release would be based off of Firefox 1.1, hopefully aol would get it right and make it less buggy as 8.0 was released and not rushed it out the door. like everyone else said in this thread you should use the default gecko engine by default and not the ie engine.

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