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Netscape 8 To Be Released On Thursday

Postby localhost » Wed 18 May, 2005 2:16 am

Hacking for Christ wrote:Netscape 8 To Be Released On Thursday

You heard it here first. Apparently it's quite different to the beta, because several features which weren't ready then are now.


Not sure if it is true though.
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Re: Netscape 8 To Be Released On Thursday

Postby J-M » Wed 18 May, 2005 4:38 am

localhost wrote:Not sure if it is true though.


The win32 subdirectory at Netscape's FTP server is quite empty, and NSB-Install-BETA.exe there is dated as 9th March, 2005:

http://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape8/e ... ows/win32/

But it's time to bookmark it and this is a very good news.
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Postby J-M » Wed 18 May, 2005 4:45 am

Now I founded a new subdirectory named as /partners at http://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape/ .

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16-May-2005 11:13

Interesting. There was no access to this directory.
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Re: Netscape 8 To Be Released On Thursday

Postby Alice » Wed 18 May, 2005 5:51 am

localhost wrote:
Hacking for Christ wrote:Netscape 8 To Be Released On Thursday

You heard it here first. Apparently it's quite different to the beta, because several features which weren't ready then are now.


Not sure if it is true though.


You'll know, soon enough :wink:

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Postby localhost » Wed 18 May, 2005 7:33 am

I'll take that as a yes.
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Postby Alice » Wed 18 May, 2005 8:00 am

Take it any way you wish, but I don't have any more information than you do :)
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Postby localhost » Wed 18 May, 2005 9:38 am

I'll do that.

For those actually interested in using Netscape 8, do take a look at this article by Blake Ross.
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Postby nscpprod » Wed 18 May, 2005 9:51 am

These aren't the droids you're looking for.
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Postby localhost » Wed 18 May, 2005 10:03 am

nscpprod wrote:These aren't the droids you're looking for.

I can't complain about my knowledge on the English language, but this comment I don't understand. Could you explain this for me or do I sound really stupid now.
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Postby soviet_star » Wed 18 May, 2005 10:06 am


These aren't the droids you're looking for.



???? :? Is it just me or what does that mean??
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Postby Joji » Wed 18 May, 2005 10:29 am

nscpprod wrote:These aren't the droids you're looking for.

May 19 is the opening day of "Star Wars Revenge of the Sith" in US. :)

The most important thing to me is nscpprod's user agent.
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especially Gecko/20050512. It seems final is based on Firefox 1.0.4.
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Postby Fulvio » Wed 18 May, 2005 10:35 am

soviet_star wrote:

These aren't the droids you're looking for.



???? :? Is it just me or what does that mean??


Does it really matter?
The article is very long (pedantic). The first thing I checked was the Boston Globe link, and it does not exist.
Anyway, I would not get worked up over NS8, droid or not.
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Postby soviet_star » Wed 18 May, 2005 11:51 am

It seems like they have stopped access to the Netscape 8 Beta on the official Netscape homepage, when trying to download a message saying that the Netscape 8 Browser is coming soon appears.
Must be something going on, maybe we will see a release tomorrow??

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Postby Pu7o » Wed 18 May, 2005 12:22 pm

actually, from the looks of it, final will be on ff 1.0, because it says rv:1.7.5. The Gecko/XXX is the compilation date.
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Postby zeitgeist » Wed 18 May, 2005 12:59 pm

NS8 had some neat ideas but the two browser engines could be a pain because you need seperate addons for each one. So, using Firefox addons, such as adblock, would only work on sites using the Gecko engine.
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