Netscape 6.1

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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there's actually a few useful features

[Trepidity]

There's a few features not available in Mozilla:

• Ability to read AOL email. This is probably not of interest to most people here, but it might be to a great many other people. AOL uses a proprietary system for its email, and as far as I know, Netscape 6.x is the first piece of software other than the AOL software itself to be able to interface with the mail system. And since the Netscape email client isn't bad, this could be useful to AOL users, of whom there are many.
  
• Built-in AIM client. This is convenient for some people, though I personally prefer the Win32 stand-alone client. But for the Linux users, it's a working official AIM client that will never be blocked, so if nothing else is useful as a last resort for when GAIM/Jabber/etc. are blocked.
  
• A dictionary. Sure, there's dictionary.com, dict.org, etc., but a built-in dictionary sure is handy, especially for modem users.