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Browser Wars II: CompuServe Strikes Back

Posted by timothy on from the lizards-are-crawling-everywhere dept.

securitas writes "Today CompuServe (an AOL subsidiary) launched CompuServe 7.0 with Netscape as the underlying browser. CompuServe started testing Komodo, a Gecko-based client, last year, and is now experimenting with Gecko-based AOL clients. CompuServe's 3 million-member user base is seen as a testbed before turning AOL's 34 million members into Netscape users later this year." Update: 04/16 20:54 GMT by T : Also an interesting story at CNN on the upcoming Mozilla 1.0. RC1 is very nice, as have been most recent builds.

10 of 445 comments (clear)

  1. no!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp

  2. Why didn't they wait until Mozilla 1.0? by tomgilder · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    We now have one version of Gecko in Netscape, a different one in Galeon, another one in CompuServ, and then we'll have Mozilla and AOL with different versions again.

    "Great"

  3. Re:Now if.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    what's wrong with having no shame? It seems to work spectacularly for me...

    Clinton

  4. pet names for netscape by qurob · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    Netscape
    NetScrape
    NutScrape
    NetScab
    NutScab
    NetScoochie

  5. Re:No you're not by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    YOU'RE KIDDING?! I was a compuserve member for years, and I never noticed.

    Why did I leave? Once AOL took it over it became pretty much unusable. So much for the "so easy to use..." bit.

    By the way, why were the numbers in octal?

  6. Re:compuserve? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hey, Herbert Kornfeld reads /.!

  7. run on FreeBSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The most important thing for this browser is to run on FreeBSD. We need to get the word out that a real Unix(tm) is available on the PC for people to run who love Unix(tm).

  8. Sourceforge by dextr0us · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    OT: Arent the sourceforge banners huge?

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  9. Who cares what CompuServe do? by Tim+Ward · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    They pissed me off with lousy customer service years ago so I junked the account.

  10. Re:Now if.... by snake_dad · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Stop bitching about the Karma cap. It gives otherwise maxxed out people at 47 an incentive to post quality.

    yeah. please mod me down.

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