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Netscape 8.0 (final) and 8.0.1 released

Postby Antony » Thu 19 May, 2005 6:14 am

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OR check http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/download/default.jsp for more information.

Currently available: installer (297kb)
Full installer (13.2MB)
System Requirements
Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98 SE, ME

Minimum Hardware
233 MHz processor (Recommended: 1 GHz processor or greater)
64 MB RAM (Recommended: 256 MB RAM or greater)
35 MB hard drive space

changed the post type to normal on 17th June 2005
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Postby J-M » Thu 19 May, 2005 6:33 am

Fresh Release Notes are available too: http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/support/relnotes.jsp .

According to the new Security Alerts page, "The Netscape Browser, v8.0 includes all Firefox security patches up to 1.0.3".

Netscape Communications (AOL) is using links to MFSA Security Advisories, the newest one is MFSA 2005-33 JavaScript "lambda" security issue.
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Postby Antony » Thu 19 May, 2005 6:35 am

The lengthy installation...
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Postby Pu7o » Thu 19 May, 2005 6:36 am

Here's a screenshot of Netscape 8 using the Winscape theme (looks a lot like Firefox with this theme) - http://kidzilla.planetaclix.pt/ns8-winscape.jpg

I don't think you need a screenshot of the fusion theme (formerly Comet) , as it looks just like the Beta.
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Postby Antony » Thu 19 May, 2005 6:52 am

A screenshot from me
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Postby Pu7o » Thu 19 May, 2005 7:03 am

and just to be complete, here's a screenshot of Firefox running with the Winscape theme from NS8:

http://kidzilla.planetaclix.pt/firefox-winscape.JPG

and the same Firefox with Fusion/Comet:

http://kidzilla.planetaclix.pt/firefox-fusion.JPG

Comet/Fusion actually looks nice on firefox! :)
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Postby TK19 » Thu 19 May, 2005 7:24 am

Are they going to make NS8 for Mac????? I hope they do.........
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Postby Antony » Thu 19 May, 2005 7:45 am

TK19 wrote:Are they going to make NS8 for Mac????? I hope they do.........
Well, have to wait a little while.
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Postby Alice » Thu 19 May, 2005 9:19 am

From the Netscape 8 Release Notes
Profile Folder

Netscape Browser stores your user data in one of the following locations:
Windows 2000, XP
Documents and Settings\<UserName>\Application Data\Netscape\NSB

Windows 98, ME
Windows\Application Data\Netscape\NSB


The profile location for Netscape8 Beta was the ...\Application Data\Netscape\NSAE folder...so, in other words, you are forced to start fresh with a new profile.
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Postby Antony » Thu 19 May, 2005 9:23 am

Alice, did you uninstall Netscape 8.0 Beta before installing Netscape 8.0?
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Postby Joji » Thu 19 May, 2005 9:33 am

Full Installer (13.2MB)
http://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape8/e ... ll-8-0.exe
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Postby Alice » Thu 19 May, 2005 9:34 am

Antony wrote:Alice, did you uninstall Netscape 8.0 Beta before installing Netscape 8.0?
Yes I did, but I chose NOT to remove the profile folder, when asked.

By the way, the stub installer didn't offer so save the downloaded setup files. I thought of that so, before the install finished I checked my %temp% folder which contained a Netscape Installer folder and an Install.log which included this URL (appears to be the full 13+ MB installer): http://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape8/e ... ll-8-0.exe

The Netscape Installer\56 folder (from my Temp folder) included the setup file, nsb-install-8-0.exe which I saved for backup.
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Postby Antony » Thu 19 May, 2005 9:44 am

Thanks Joji, I will update the first post.
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Postby Antony » Thu 19 May, 2005 10:41 am

Alice wrote:
Antony wrote:Alice, did you uninstall Netscape 8.0 Beta before installing Netscape 8.0?
Yes I did, but I chose NOT to remove the profile folder, when asked.
so the Netscape 8.0 Beta was really designed for "testing"? interesting.
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Postby Pu7o » Thu 19 May, 2005 10:44 am

I still have netscape 8 beta alongside netscape 8 final, and final seems to be working fine (although i haven't tried to run the beta again yet)
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