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A First Look at Netscape 7

Posted by timothy on from the netscape-stirs dept.

David_Bloom writes: "PC-WORLD has released an article giving a rundown of the just-released Preview Release 1 of Netscape 7. An especially interesting feature in this new version is tabbed browsing, which allows you to have multiple web pages open at once in one window, which you can view using a tab-based MDI."

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  1. netscape is sloooooow by tcmardoc · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    even evil explorer is faster... quit this shit! the devil is faster for sure.

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  2. Opera, hello? by prophecyvi · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    A browser with an MDI interface is nothing new. Mozilla has had it for what seems like years, as has Opera. I don't use Mozilla much (read:ever) but I'm a big fan of Opera. It has a raft of nice touches besides the MDI interface, such as Mouse Gestures, a saved window setup (loads the pages you want on startup), popup blocking, browser impersonation, privacy options, etc. Not to mention web sites actually look identical to IE in most cases as opposed to Netscape's we-screwed-it-up-in-version-4-and-are-too-lazy-to- fix-it-now CSS implementation.

  3. Re:Opera? by ncc74656 · · Score: 2, Flamebait
    Opera's had MDI browsing for quite some time. I still don't know why IE doesn't.

    IE doesn't use MDI because MDI is evil. I don't want a full-screen browser window (with its own subwindows for each page) that obscures whatever other apps you have open at the same time. That kind of interface is so Windows 3.1. :-P

    (Yes, I know that MDI is optional in the current version of Opera. That said, I've gotten used to the ability to disable certain JavaScript "features" (the ones exploited by pop-up ads and their ilk) in Mozilla...I have "open unrequested windows," "move or resize existing windows," "raise or lower windows," and "change status bar text" unchecked. I didn't see that fine-grained a selection in Opera. I haven't seen a pop-up since I started using Mozilla...before that, I was constantly tweaking my ad-filtering Squid proxy so that pop-ups requested by IE would be redirected to a local auto-close script.)

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  4. Re:me too? by sheldon · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Very interesting. I've not seen that Netcaptor before and will have to try it.

    I think it's impressive how much innovation has resulted from Microsoft's bundling of IE with Windows.