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[DJGM]

Meanwhile . . . take a look at this . . . AOL are giving Netscape 7.2 the level of
promotion they ought to have given last year's release of Netscape 7.1 . . . !


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UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax)

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

[Antony]

My quick report of Netscape 7.2 on Mac OS X .
It's a good browser in general. It is a lot faster than Netscape 7.1 on OS X.
Netscape 7.2 responded smoothly in my opinion, but still can feel "ported" application to me. the menu, toolbar icons to me still feel a bit of Unix box draw. In other words, not native application.
However, I know it is not fair to comment like that. Or perhaps I just like the native application feeling of the operating system itself.

I haven't had time to test the rendering speeds etc, I will do that later.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/125.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.9

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[beanboy89]

Some of the things I noticed about Netscape 7.2 is the Netscape toolbar. I think it is a nice feature, but there is no way to hide it other than "rolling up" that toolbar, or uninstalling it. The toolbar also takes up alot of space when the tab bar is open, espically when using 800x600 resolution. The tab bar also has "New Tab" text becide the "New Tab" button, also using alot space. Other than those new features, it is exactly how I would expect a Netscape release. I am overall pleased.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax)

[swirven]

[Andrew T.]

[f_elz]

Is the toolbar a .jar file or something?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2

[beanboy89]

[Fulvio]

I dissected the toolbar, i.e. I took into consideration each item, and it has no reason to exist in NS7.2. It was made for Internet Explorer, where it served a purpose, but not here. Other than that NS7.2 is excellent, at par with Moz1.7.2. Surprise?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax)

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[DiscoFever]

You can no longer do a Google search from the Toolbar. The only Search engine search from the toolbar is "Netscape". In 7.1 you could use various search engines from the toolbar. I'm sure The google search works for Fulvio.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 MultiZilla/1.6.3.1d (ax)

[WstrnElect]

I just add a shortcut to the personal toolbar to whatever search engine I need. Works well in the "other" browser, too. It also works well for The Weather Channel, which links right to my local page. Eliminates the need for Desktop Weather on my 450 Mhz antique. The Desktop Navigator actually performs pretty much the same function, and uses far fewer resources than DW.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax)

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Kurt

[Josh]

I have played with on 10.2.8. I find it to be pretty good and fast! I haven't tried mail/news or composer, but I am thinking they will be good.

I see the Windows version has a toolbar that has pop-up blocking, web search, and form filling. With this installed, does this override the "native" settings (i.e. as present in Moz 1.7.x) or not?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/85.8.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/85.8

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Josh
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[Antony]