SillyDog701

[pleung]

Why Netscape stops putting the email, newsgroup and address book in the Netscape 8.x? The Netscape 8.x is just a browser, and putting all in once, people don't need so many different appl for online stuff. Is Netscape planting to put the email, newsgroup and address into one packet again?

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[Fulvio]

Netscape is owned by AOL, and, AOL has been phasing out everything Netscape. This is a well established fact, reading this and other newsgroups, although never publicly stated.
AOL came out with Netscape8.x, which is a browser only, intentionally, to parallel the browser only Firefox and Internet Explorer, and the dual ability of Firefox/IE modes are the highlights of Netscape8.x. Netscape8.1 is quite buggy, and, with no development aboard (at AOL), there is no good reason why it will be updated. As for mail, the accepted companion to NS8.1 has been Mozilla Thunderbird.
Since even Netscape Webmail (@netscape.net), there is no reason to believe that there will be another Suite. For people who prefer a Suite over a split browser/mail, there is the Seamonkey project.
But, as far a Netscape goes, it is gone.

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[casey1992]

SeaMonkey is very nice. As far as usability, Netscape 7 and Mozilla Suite 1.7 users can pick up right where they left off. Plus, it's faster, has some useful new features, and has the security updates present in the recent Firefox versions.

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