Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Netscape 6.1

Posted by michael on from the netscape's-still-around? dept.

max2010 writes: "Netscape Browser Version 6.1 is released. Give it a try, grab the 25MByte junk of code for MAC, Unix and Windows at ftp.netscape.com." MSNBC has a brief story about the release.

6 of 530 comments (clear)

  1. Re:sweet god in heaven by sharkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    25 megs? What the hell did they put in it? Why can't they just release the damn browser by itself?

    8.2 MBs of browser, 6.8 MBs of Java and 10 MBs of a video clip of Steve Case jumping around like a monkey, screaming, "WOO! HOO! WAA! HAA! Look at me, I'm Steve Ballmer! HEE HEE!"

    --

    --
    "Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
  2. Brilliant lead writing... by wrinkledshirt · · Score: 5, Funny
    AOL Time Warner released the first final upgrade...

    If it's the first one, doesn't that preclude the possibility of it being the final one?

    I'm so confused.

    --

    --------
    Bleah! Heh heh heh... BLEAH BLEAH!!! Ha ha ha ha...

  3. Freudian slip? by sheetsda · · Score: 5, Funny
    25MByte junk of code

    Doesn't he mean "chunk" of code? Little Freudian slip there? :)

  4. Re:notoriously buggy? by bricriu · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, they do kinda have a point, especially if you buy into the "browser wars" buzzword. By this point, if you're on a Windows box -- which most people are, especially those who read MSNBC for their "news" -- the odds are that you're using IE. I use a Windows box, and, honestly, I like IE... and I was one of the most die-hard against it, until it went to version 5.0 (SP1) while Netscape was still wasting away in version 4.x.

    The point that he's trying to make is that by now, unless you have a major grudge against M$ (not that anyone on /. has such a thing) or have a Linux box (same difference? ;-)you've probably caved and gone with IE now. So loyalists are all that are left.

    --

    AHHHHHHH! I'm burning with goodness again!
    - Reakk, Sluggy Freelance

  5. I thought they said they were done with browsers? by Mustang+Matt · · Score: 5, Funny

    Didn't they have a press release about two months ago that said they weren't going to release any more browsers?

    Web developers rejoiced across the world on that day.

    --
    The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. - Benjamin Franklin
  6. Who truly needs a dictionary... by Pollux · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...when we send and receive e-mails like this daily:

    duuuuudes!

    i's got net61 its 31337 way sweeeeeeeeeeeet

    emails cool n i lik its grphx

    ttfn l8r

    It's emails like that that make Webster turn in his grave.