Netscape 9.0 beta1 released

Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Camino, Mozilla, Netscape 6/7/8/9, and all Gecko-based browsers discussion and support forum. (MozInfo701, Netscape Browser Archive)

Moderators: Fulvio, profman, Ramona, Antony, Edward

Post a reply

Netscape 9.0 beta1 released

Postby orizng » Tue 05 Jun, 2007 9:24 am

http://browser.netscape.com/
for win/osx/linux

should support all firefox's extensions and maybe themes

Image
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5pre) Gecko/20070604 Firefox/2.0.0.4 Navigator/9.0b1
Last edited by orizng on Tue 05 Jun, 2007 9:37 am, edited 2 times in total.
Whatever,whatever,have a nice day.
User avatar
orizng
silver member
silver member
 
Posts: 325
Joined: Mon 12 Aug, 2002 2:50 am
Location: Dallas, TX
Top

Postby Antony » Tue 05 Jun, 2007 10:00 am

Thanks for the heads-up.

I will update the MozInfo701 entry and Netscape Browser Archive's Netscape 9 section later. (My bed time now.)
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4
User avatar
Antony
diamond member
diamond member
 
Posts: 14953
Joined: Tue 18 Jun, 2002 11:36 pm
Location: Sydney, Australia
Top

Postby Roy » Tue 05 Jun, 2007 12:53 pm

It will not support Firefox themes because the layout is different. (This is also stated on one their release notes pages.)
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/1.5 DNJ72R1
Roy
member
member
 
Posts: 43
Joined: Fri 07 Mar, 2003 3:27 pm
Top

Postby Don_HH2K » Tue 05 Jun, 2007 12:57 pm

Glad to see that Netscape is running on multiple platforms again.

Something tells me that their 4MB RAM requirement is just a little bit off. :D Windows 98 won't even successfully install with that much RAM.
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2 x64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070603 BonEcho/2.0.0.4 (mmoy CE K8N-X02)
Laptop: HP Compaq nx6325 - Turion 64 X2 @ 2GHz, 2GB DDR2, 100GB HD, ATI Radeon X300, 15" LCD, Seven Pro
Handheld: Palm Treo 650 - Intel PXA270 @ 312MHz, 10MB RAM, 32MB flash, 2.7" LCD, Palm OS 5.4
User avatar
Don_HH2K
Moderator
Moderator
 
Posts: 5112
Joined: Sun 09 May, 2004 3:59 pm
Top

Postby n301 » Tue 05 Jun, 2007 6:49 pm

Just installed Netscape 9

Very good job and certainly a big improvement over Netscape 8 :)
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5pre) Gecko/20070604 Firefox/2.0.0.4 Navigator/9.0b1
n301
junior member
junior member
 
Posts: 11
Joined: Sat 31 Mar, 2007 11:08 pm
Top

Postby Pu7o » Tue 05 Jun, 2007 7:03 pm

Well, this is certainly a welcome improvement over NS8. I'm actually going to try using this for a while as my main browser. Let's see what it can do.
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5pre) Gecko/20070604 Firefox/2.0.0.4 Navigator/9.0b1
User avatar
Pu7o
Macfox
Macfox
 
Posts: 2014
Joined: Thu 06 Jan, 2005 12:03 pm
Location: Portugal
Top

Postby beanboy89 » Tue 05 Jun, 2007 9:20 pm

Although I haven't had much chance to play around with Netscape 9, it seems very Firefox-like, much more so that of the infamous Netscape 8.x series.

And for the record, here's a screenshot under Windows:

Image
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5pre) Gecko/20070604 Firefox/2.0.0.4 Navigator/9.0b1
User avatar
beanboy89
diamond member
diamond member
 
Posts: 1689
Joined: Sun 16 May, 2004 8:56 am
Top

Postby richard mitnick » Tue 05 Jun, 2007 11:51 pm

Re-skinned FF2.0.0.4 with Netscape.com site specific features. How many FF browsers do you want???

>>RSM
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5pre) Gecko/20070604 Firefox/2.0.0.4 Navigator/9.0b1
User avatar
richard mitnick
diamond member
diamond member
 
Posts: 1520
Joined: Mon 25 Apr, 2005 10:46 am
Location: Highland Park, New Jersey
Top

Postby n301 » Wed 06 Jun, 2007 9:09 am

richard mitnick wrote:How many FF browsers do you want???

>>RSM


Just one.. Netscape Navigator 9 :)
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5pre) Gecko/20070604 Firefox/2.0.0.4 Navigator/9.0b1
n301
junior member
junior member
 
Posts: 11
Joined: Sat 31 Mar, 2007 11:08 pm
Top

Postby James » Wed 06 Jun, 2007 10:25 am

Try not to push too hard. I'm glad you like NS 9. Really. But in truth, it's little more than a re-skinned FF with proprietary options that many will not want simply because they are little more than AOL marketing ploys. And the fact that it is built upon FF means that it will always be playing catch-up in terms of patches and security fixes. A few developers cannot possibly hope to keep abreast of an open source app like FF which is open to the public at large. BUT it "is" a definite improvement over NS 8 in terms of being less buggy and that's a good thing. Will it persuade many Firefox users to abandon ship? I seriously doubt that. It will undoubtedly carve out its little niche but I would suspect that this will never be more than a very small percentage of users for the simple reason that it's too late.
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4
James
User avatar
James
diamond member
diamond member
 
Posts: 2963
Joined: Sat 13 Jul, 2002 12:10 am
Top

Postby richard mitnick » Wed 06 Jun, 2007 5:15 pm

Here too, I second James' eloquence.

>>RSM
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4
User avatar
richard mitnick
diamond member
diamond member
 
Posts: 1520
Joined: Mon 25 Apr, 2005 10:46 am
Location: Highland Park, New Jersey
Top

Postby J-M » Wed 06 Jun, 2007 6:13 pm

A coverage list of changes is listed at What's New page, the link is
http://browser.netscape.com/whatsnew/

Throbber is back again! 8-)
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
User avatar
J-M
diamond member
diamond member
 
Posts: 815
Joined: Sun 25 Jul, 2004 9:16 am
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Top

Postby orizng » Fri 08 Jun, 2007 9:12 pm

also for the record, this is under linux
Image
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5pre) Gecko/20070604 Firefox/2.0.0.4 Navigator/9.0b1
Whatever,whatever,have a nice day.
User avatar
orizng
silver member
silver member
 
Posts: 325
Joined: Mon 12 Aug, 2002 2:50 am
Location: Dallas, TX
Top

Postby Minilik » Sat 30 Jun, 2007 7:35 pm

richard mitnick wrote:Here too, I second James' eloquence.

>>RSM


"Fibber: You know what they say 'Better to have eloquence than elephants...'

Molly: ...Yes! And much easier on the carpet too!"

-Fibber & Molly McGee

BTW any relation to Kevin?
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20070321 Netscape/8.1.3
User avatar
Minilik
member
member
 
Posts: 25
Joined: Sat 30 Jun, 2007 3:11 pm
Top

Postby richard mitnick » Sun 01 Jul, 2007 6:35 am

The family originated in Baltimore before the Civil War. The story is, that at some point, there were in one generation, twelve brothers, all very prolific. They had many many offspring. There are Mitnicks from Boston, all down the East coast and around to Galveston. Kevin is definitely some kind of cousin. I have never met him.
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4
User avatar
richard mitnick
diamond member
diamond member
 
Posts: 1520
Joined: Mon 25 Apr, 2005 10:46 am
Location: Highland Park, New Jersey
Top
Post a reply
Return to Firefox, SeaMonkey and Netscape

Who is online

Registered users: Bing [Bot], Google [Bot]
Powered by phpBB® Forum Software © phpBB Group All messages posted in this forum do not necessarily represent SillyDog701 (SD701). This forum is operated by Antony Shen. All rights reserved. Copyright Notice. Privacy Statement.