SillyDog701 Message Centre

[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:

[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

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[J-M]

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

[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

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Mozilla = Swiss Army Knife: It's versatile, reliable, and contains useful tools.
Microsoft Internet Explorer = Old Swiss Cheese: Full of holes, and it stinks!

[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

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"I've got a very poor sense of direction. I keep forgetting which way is forwards."
WinXP, SP2, FF2.0.0.14, TB2.0.0.14 IE7.0, Opera9.27, SM1.1.9, Flock1.1.3, Safari3.1, Sygate5.6; AVG7.5, JRE1.6_05

[Pu7o]

[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

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Mozilla = Swiss Army Knife: It's versatile, reliable, and contains useful tools.
Microsoft Internet Explorer = Old Swiss Cheese: Full of holes, and it stinks!

[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+

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Henceforth, you shall be known as... Darth Extremist.

[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:

[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 C:\Windows|Applications Data\Netscape\NSB folder
(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)

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RAMONA
Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox Solutions

[macallan1824]

[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]