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Postby Andrew T. » Fri 26 Nov, 2004 4:34 pm

manny007 wrote:Where can one apply for the new Netscape Prototype Browser? Because I already tried going to the link you provided and nothing happens when I enter the code in.


The registration code was disabled after the number of tester slots was reached.
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Postby Antony » Mon 29 Nov, 2004 8:02 pm

Netscape has posted the Official FAQ regarding this Netscape Browser Prototype.

(I am not sure if I can copy the content here, otherwise, you can login into http://community.netscape.com/nscpbrowser )
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Postby Antony » Mon 29 Nov, 2004 8:26 pm

There are some exciting new features coming to the new Netscape Browser, such as Site Control, enhanced Tabbed Browsing, Live Content etc.

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You can login into http://community.netscape.com/nscpbrowser for more information.
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Postby manny007 » Mon 29 Nov, 2004 8:52 pm

who is the forums' adminstrator?
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Postby orizng » Tue 30 Nov, 2004 9:20 am

windows only...... for now, not even OS X? and based on FX 0.94
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Postby Andrew T. » Tue 30 Nov, 2004 11:19 am

It's November 30th, and there's a "DOWNLOAD NOW!" link for testers on the Netscape Browser Review page.

Has anyone tried the browser prototype yet? I'm not able to do so since I'm still using Windows 95.
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Postby orizng » Tue 30 Nov, 2004 11:26 am

It use both IE and Gecko engine, u can set a main one through tools-options, and also u can temperorily switch for each tab by clicking the traffic light of each tab.
It has a dynamic feeds like news sticker(I turn it off, pretty annoying).

http://www.firefox.net.cn/newforum/files/fx-ns.gif

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Postby Fulvio » Tue 30 Nov, 2004 11:36 am

I got it. It looked smooth until I tried to do two things at once, and the message which I wrote in part went bye-bye.No choice of Search Engine noticed.
This thing, if indeed based on Firefox, is on steroids. The download was 11 MB.
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Postby Hendikins » Tue 30 Nov, 2004 12:44 pm

Please hold whilst I throw up...
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Postby dynamics » Tue 30 Nov, 2004 12:48 pm

I really like the new Netscape a lot. I do miss the AIM/ICQ client though which I am sure will appear soon.

Does anybody know if we had to take a "vow of silence" on talking about the browser outside the forums?
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Postby Fulvio » Tue 30 Nov, 2004 12:57 pm

dynamics wrote:I really like the new Netscape a lot. I do miss the AIM/ICQ client though which I am sure will appear soon.

Does anybody know if we had to take a "vow of silence" on talking about the browser outside the forums?


Hint: Tabs. They work
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Postby Hendikins » Tue 30 Nov, 2004 1:21 pm

All I can say is that if this is the future of "Netscape", god help us...
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Postby DJGM » Tue 30 Nov, 2004 1:29 pm

First impressions . . . the GUI is atrocious, just as I feared. The navigation buttons look nasty and childish,
and having the animated "N" logo in the top left is off putting. Placing the menubar at the top right of the
window, instead of on the left, just under the titlebar (where it should be) is just plain stoopid!

All the extra buttons on the toolbars, displayed by default, such as news and weathers, amongst other
things, just bloats the GUI beyond reason. There is no excuse for most of that. It's just unnecessary.

I've not looked at the System Requirements for this thing yet, but if it says it requires IE, then that
really defeats the purpose of Netscape being an alternative to Microsoft's ubiquitous browser.


Here's a screengrab of this fugly monstrosity, with the default toolbar layout . . .

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Utterly hideous!


Well then, based upon my impressions so far, and despite the fact that it's built upon Firefox, this has
got to be the worst Netscape branded browser since 6.0 was released four years ago. It's horrible.

This thing need a hell of a lot of remedial work, before it is finalized. If this new Netscape browser
isn't drastically improved before it goes gold, then I'm sticking with Netscape 7.2 and Firefox 1.0.
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Postby orizng » Tue 30 Nov, 2004 2:51 pm

only one complaint so far: ugly interface, even i can do alot better than this version.

I dont think it will require IE to run since it use FX as default core. but i have to say, a bad interface will push ppl away for sure.
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Postby Alice » Tue 30 Nov, 2004 3:56 pm

The new Netscape browser creates a unique profile directory so there's no conflict with existing Mozilla or Firefox profiles :)

(On WinXP)
[tt]C:\Documents and Settings\%USER%\Application Data\Netscape\NSAE\Profiles\default.xxx[/tt]
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