SillyDog701

[J-M]

New Netscape Browser version 8.0.4 has been released some minutes ago.

Direct download links at
http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/download/default.jsp

From Security Alerts page:

Security Alerts

The Netscape Browser, v8.0.4 includes all Firefox security patches up through 1.0.7.

Fixed in Netscape Browser 8.0.4

• MFSA 2005-58 Firefox 1.0.7 / Mozilla Suite 1.7.12 Vulnerability Fixes
• MFSA 2005-57 IDN heap overrun using soft-hyphens

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; fi-FI; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050919 Firefox/1.0.7

[Antony]

They also included Flash Player 8 in the package, I just wonder why?

There's nothing wrong with Flash 7.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/412.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/412.5

[J-M]

Full version of information at updated Release Notes page
http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/support/relnotes.jsp :

What's fixed in this version?

• All security and bug fixes through Firefox 1.0.7
• Improved proxy handling
• Flash 8.0 is now bundled which fixes a variety of crashes

(Underlining made later, not included to original page)

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; fi-FI; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050919 Firefox/1.0.7

[DJGM]

And it's still for Windows only! Is Netscape ever going to be available for Mac OS X and Linux users again?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050910 SeaMonkey/1.0a

[Fulvio]

I spent a good deal of time fine tuning 8.0.3.3, with the Skypilot Theme, to the point that NS8 was tolerable. Now, I am back to square one. all my settings are changed, and the Tabs which I was using, which, unfortunately, did not save are gone.
I am, pretty much done with 8.0.4. I don't even know where the system mail icon has landed, but, it is gone from the preferences.
I was able to reset it NS8.04. with old reliable Skypilot, and, I noticed that System Mail was out of the picture on the right, but I was able to "catch" it in Skypilot, and drag and drop it where I wanted it.
Still working in getting back the original settings, but I guess I got it back.
Thanks, AOL!

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006 Seaamoeba Firefox/1.4.1

[Pu7o]

And it's still for Windows only! Is Netscape ever going to be available for Mac OS X and Linux users again?

From the way things are going, it's probably obvious that (unfortunately) we won't see a Netscape 8 for a non-Windows operating system. The saddest part of all this is that the NS8 chrome is almost compatible with Firefox, which could have provided at least part of Netscape 8's functionality to other platforms.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051018 Camino/1.0+

[DJGM]

Maybe Netscape 8.x.x will only ever be for Windows only. I'm hoping that after SeaMonkey (the internet
application suite formerly known as Mozilla) has gone "gold", that Netscape goes back to being a cross
platform app-suite, built upon SeaMonkey, like Netscape 7.x was built upon the Mozilla App-Suite.



IMHO, while it's built upon a bastardization of Firefox, Netscape 8.x is little more than a very bad joke.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050910 SeaMonkey/1.0a

[Pu7o]

I seriously doubt that, but we must never lose hope...

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Mac OS X x86; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051016 Camino/1.0+

[J-M]

New advisory Netscape Browser Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities from FrSIRT says the fixed vulnerabilities as CVE numbers and has a Critical severity level:

Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2005-2147
CVE ID : 2005-2871 - 2005-2701 - 2005-2702 - 2005-2703 - 2005-2704 - 2005-2705 - 2005-2706 - 2005-2707
Rated as : Critical
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-10-19

* Technical Description *

Multiple vulnerabilities were identified in Netscape, which could be exploited by malicious web sites to to execute arbitrary commands or conduct spoofing attacks. For additional information, see : FrSIRT/ADV-2005-1824

* Affected Products *

Netscape version 8.0.3.3 and prior

* Solution *

Upgrade to Netscape version 8.0.4 :
http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/download/default.jsp

* References *

http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2005/2147
http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/security/alerts.jsp

Source: http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2005/2147

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; fi-FI; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050919 Firefox/1.0.7

[richard mitnick]

All I can say is thanks to sillydog.

I only know about the update because I had a couple of minutes to check out what was new in the way of posts.

After I did my work computer, I checked for updates in Netscape on my home computer. Netscape could not find that it had any updates.

So, again, thanks to sillydog, and the folks who keep it going.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20051012 Netscape/8.0.4

[Ramona]

Fulvio,

Thanks to your warning about the problems with losing your Preferences after the install of 8.0.4, I was able to install without losing anything, after a copy/paste.

I treated the new install much like the move from one PC to another. Here's what I did:

Removed the salted folder from my [tt]C:\Windows|Applications Data\Netscape\NSB folder[/tt]
(Windows 98SE)
Copied my C:\Program Files\plugins folder
Uninstalled 8.0.3.3
Rebooted

Installed 8.0.4
Let it start once and then closed. Like you said, it was totally messed up.

I then copied the contents of the old salted folder to the new salted folder, started 8.0.4 and everything was there, including extensions and themes. By salted folder I refer to the "randomcharacter.profilename" folder. FWIW...

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7 (ax)

[macallan1824]

They also included Flash Player 8 in the package, I just wonder why?
There's nothing wrong with Flash 7.

I had no end of crashes in NPSWF32, on several different PCs before upgrading to Flash 8 fixed things.

Turns out they occured when NS initialised the IE Flash 7 Control with the Netscape plugin already loaded.

I guess Macromedia never expected a browser to run both their Netscape Plugin & ActiveX Control at the Same Time.

Anyway, not a single crash since the 1st Flash 8 Beta - looks like they've fixed things ...

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050729 Netscape/8.0.3.3

[J-M]

Version v2.08 of Nullsoft Install System has been used to make Netscape 8.0.4 setup utility.

This is my first post to SD701 with NS8.0.4 installed to test UA string.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20051012 Netscape/8.0.4

[J-M]

Thanks for updating the text Download Netscape Browser 8.0.4 to the SD701 Message Centre main page, visible only when not logged in.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; fi-FI; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050919 Firefox/1.0.7

[edgkenny]

They also included Flash Player 8 in the package, I just wonder why?
There's nothing wrong with Flash 7.

I had no end of crashes in NPSWF32, on several different PCs before upgrading to Flash 8 fixed things.

Turns out they occured when NS initialised the IE Flash 7 Control with the Netscape plugin already loaded.

I guess Macromedia never expected a browser to run both their Netscape Plugin & ActiveX Control at the Same Time.

Anyway, not a single crash since the 1st Flash 8 Beta - looks like they've fixed things ...

Maybe that was why Netscape kept crashing on me. Even the download manager was locking up sometimes. I upgraded to Netscape 8.0.4 with no problems. I have had no crashes or lockup since I upgraded.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20051012 Netscape/8.0.4