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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.

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  1. great features, too late by fetta · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If Microsoft had ever released IE for Linux, this would be even more of a dead issue.

    A valuable lesson here - it doesn't matter how good the technology is if you take too long to produce it and don't market it well. (of course, that same principle could be applied to almost any product.)

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  2. Re:How much deeper does this hole get? by TheFrood · · Score: 5, Insightful
    The more Netscape keeps releasing beta code, the more users it's alienating. I know it's tough not having the latest and greatest 5.x (err 6.x) browser to market, but come on. By the time we get to 6.2 (i.e. Mozilla 1.0 stable), there will be five Netscape users left.

    Basing 6.0 on Mozilla 0.6 (or whatever it was) was an incredibly stupid idea. But building 6.1 now off the Moz-0.9.2 source is the right thing to do. First, because Moz-0.9.2 is actually very stable -- the Mozilla folks are setting very high standards for Moz-1.0, and Moz-0.9.2 is already better then Netscape 4.x. Second, and more importantly, releasing 6.1 now gets 6.0 off the market and out of sight as soon as possible.

    Even if 6.1 isn't a perfect browser yet, it at least gets rid of the abomination that is 6.0.

    TheFrood

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  3. Re:Why? by shepd · · Score: 4, Insightful

    >Someone will have to source a decent GPL spellchecker library or write one and a dictionary before Mozilla will have anything similar.

    This was done before Linux even existed (I believe I read about ispell in a book that was printed before the Linux "revolution").

    Newer stuff like aspell and pspell would be well suited to Mozilla. It should be in there, and I'd help do it, but my skillset is currently limited to simple TurboC, Assembly, Turing, and Visual Basic (and another language I won't speak of). :-/

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