Netscape 8

[dunefield]

Downloading it now... Anyone using it yet?

[StickyGreen]

i've never used netscape...always ie...

[dunefield]

wow... just installed it... it's basically firefox with extra's... NICE!

[the source]

don't do it. It's a trick! ;)

[kernelpanic]

people use netscape 8?

[SykkBoy]

I love it, Netscape 6 was a total dog, but since then, they got their act together and both Netscape 7 and Netscape 8 were amazing......I open IE, maybe once per week (there are a few webmaster areas that look totally fucked up in NS......)

[webcrawler]

Tried it for a few day then reverted to firefox.
Ugly skin and layout.

[PersianKitty]

Can't get rid of the toolbars like in Netscape and IE.. and it didn't transfer over my password file.

[Probono]

It's time for America Online to take Netscape 8 back to the development labs. Since its release this month, the browser has brought nothing but headaches to users.
The latest flaw prevents Microsoft's Internet Explorer from rendering some web pages written in extensible markup language. In addition, RSS news feeds, which depend on XML, would also appear blank in IE.

See the story at:

http://update.internetweek.com/cgi-b...Zi0G4X0DQzL0EC

Now for most consumers this may not seem like much of a problem, but for those who access XML pages, the fun has just started.

Microsoft recommends that computer users uninstall Netscape. But there's one little catch. You'll have to manually edit the Windows Registry to bring everything back to normal. Now for computer professionals this may not be a big deal, but for the majority of us, this is a disaster. Screw up the registry, and the computer doesn't work?period.

AOL, as you'd expect, is saying all of this is a "very minor issue," and Microsoft is being "silly" in recommending the browser be removed.

Silly or not, I don't consider programs that damage the Windows Registry a "minor issue." Netscape, by the way, was released May 19 with three security flaws that had users scrambling for patches.

Netscape 8 is becoming for users a migraine equal to the one Time Warner suffered when it merged with AOL. This kind of sloppy development is unconscionable and one more reason to avoid anything AOL touches.

[The Sultan Of Smut]

Isn't it based off of Firefox v0.93? That build was the first that I thought was rock solid but some security issues cropped up which were taken care of later builds.