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[Joji]

Last update of Netscape 9.

Netscape 9 Users: Time to Flock or Firefox - The Netscape Blog

When the Netscape 9.0.0.6 upgrade is accepted and run, the following notice will appear, denoting the end of support date (March 1) and the recommendations of Flock and Firefox

Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.

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[hansh]

For download and release notes http://browser.netscape.com/downloads

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[Somedude]

It's a shame really, but Netscape wasn't getting the attention it deserved.

Sayonara, Netscape.

~SD

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[Fulvio]

NS9.0.0.6 has a peculiar add-on incompatibility. I save four Tabs, which is my Home Group, but I get only one, plus an untitled one. Starting in Safe Mode, the Tabs came back, so, I disabled all add-ons, and added back one at the time. It is not enough to restart the browser. I have to close it, and, then reopen it. But having only Forecastfox, Yahoo Mail Notifier, Get Mail Plus and IE Tab, beside Prefbar, and the Navigator Migrator (new), it was not so bad. On;ly when the Prefbar was present, there was trouble.

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[J-M]

This version release fixes several vulnerabilities too, which have been assigned to Secunia advisory 'SA29049'.

Link: Netscape Multiple Vulnerabilities

The severity level is Highly Critical, i.e. 4/5.

The advisory points to Netscape Blog entry too informing about the end of the official support:

NOTE: Official support for all Netscape client products will end on March 1st, 2008. Please see the vendor announcement for more details.
http://blog.netscape.com/2007/12/28/end ... -browsers/

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[James]

And this is a reminder that more security issues will arise ... security issues of a critical nature. That is why it is prudent to switch over to Firefox or SeaMonkey which continue to be updated. NN9 will be very shortly little more than history. Those who insist upon using it along with those still messing about the NS 7 do so at their own risk. And I continue to find it hypocritical that some Netscape developers who deplored Microsoft's slowness to act in patching security vulnerabilities in the past are now suggesting that continuing to use NN9 after this final patching is perfectly safe and legitimate. That is speaking out of both sides of one's mouth and I frankly don't appreciate it. It's the very reason I've stopped going to "another" Netscape site. It's game over for Netscape. Even if they could find a so-called last minute savior, it is too little too late. The horse is long gone out of the barn. Firefox is the new champion to square off with Internet Explorer.

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[Fulvio]

James,
you know that I agree with this issue 99.999%. I had uninstalled 9.0.0.5 because of my Tab problems. I reinstalled Navig.9.0.0.6 only because some people say that it is so much better than Firefox. I have, yet, to find anything so worthwhile.
And, I wanted to find out why my Tabs give me trouble, and found out that it was my beloved Prefbar. But, 9.0.0.6 will not last long, because, all in a sudden, my Bugzilla username/password is not acceptable, at least from Navig.9. I know that the developers of the Prefbar never mention Navig.9, so it may be a moot point. And, I am not going to lose sleep over this.

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[James]

I understand what you are saying, Fulvio. And I understand why you would re-install the last patch. You're more into testing and learning why things work or don't work, than I. And we need folks like you who will do this ground work for the rest of us.

All the best.

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[vipergg]

Should probably switch , I have Firefox as a backup but it looks like FF abandoned us older Windows OS users with version 3.0 as it only supports XP and Vista from what i understand. Wonder how long before they stop updating FF version 2 ?

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[iJohnE]

Good-bye Netscape, we'll miss you.

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[Fulvio]

Should probably switch , I have Firefox as a backup but it looks like FF abandoned us older Windows OS users with version 3.0 as it only supports XP and Vista from what i understand. Wonder how long before they stop updating FF version 2 ?

3.0 is not to be released for a while, so 2.x will be updated, as needed.

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[Antony]

A quick time line on Netscape 9:

The announcement of Netscape 9 first surfaced in late January 2007, after a few weeks' weekly teaser, the first shipping version Netscape Navigator 9.0 was finally released in October 2007, and shortly, the version pumped to 9.0.0.5 on 10 December 2007. Just before the end of 2007, AOL announced to discontinue Netscape (browser) support in February 2008; later in January, the support has been extended to 1st March 2008.

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[vipergg]

Its too bad they killed it , I liked version 9 after that poor excuse of version 8 . i'll continue to use it anyway .

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[Fulvio]

Its too bad they killed it , I liked version 9 after that poor excuse of version 8 . i'll continue to use it anyway .

It has not been killed, just abandoned. It is as up-to-date as anything else, for now. Use it, if it works.

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[richard mitnick]

I kept nNN9 for two reasons: 1.) one never knows what might happen with the next FF release. I had one just destroy all of my saved stuff on one computer. It took weeks of help to finally get it gone and properly then re-installed. And2.) there is some advantage in the tabbed browsing in NN9 that I have never figured out for FF. Click on a link and up it popped to the right in a new page on a new tab.

But, O.K. Gone is gone.

Now, the back up will be SM's browser, which I do dearly love. N7.2 Suite loving folks should go to the SM suite, and should have done it long ago.

The only problem I have with SM brfowser is what happens with new saved bookmarks. in FF and NN9, upon saving, one could rename and assign it to a folder. SM is clunky and klutzy. Save, go down the bottom of Bookmarks to re-name, and THEN to Manage Bookmarks to put it in a folder. Pain in the tush. Other than that SM browser rocks.

>>RSM
New Jersey weather: yesterday, Jamaica; today the High Plains.

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