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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. Tabbed browsing? by dimer0 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Am I dunk, or haven't I been using tabbed browsing in Mozilla now since version .5? ..

    Could somone enlighten me on why someone would ever want to use Netscape again? .. What added functionality does it provide over Mozilla 1.0/pr2 (build 2002051206) --

    OH CRAP! Tomorrow I'm going to get the infamous "Your copy of Mozilla is so-and-so days old. Time to update!".. Can't wait!

    1. Re:Tabbed browsing? by Surak · · Score: 4, Funny

      Am I dunk, or haven't I been using tabbed browsing in Mozilla now since version .5? ..

      Drunk or not, you need the spellchecker in Mozilla 7. :-P

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    2. Re:Tabbed browsing? by GPPL · · Score: 3, Funny

      there never was a Mozilla 0.5 release Let me get this straight....so i didnt have hot sex with natalie portman right after installing mozilla .5? I was drunk?

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    3. Re:Tabbed browsing? by Lemmy+Caution · · Score: 3, Funny

      At least one of you would have to be. I'd put my money on Natalie.

    4. Re:Tabbed browsing? by ethereal · · Score: 2, Funny

      Is this like "holy penguin pee" in reverse? Once open source code has passed through the hallowed hands of closed-source AOL/TW developers, it's suddenly OK to use?

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  2. Opera What? by LaughingOrc · · Score: 1, Funny

    Shall I begin the browser war here?

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    1. Re:Opera What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Opera Sucks! Lynx Rocks!

  3. Re:me too? by swright · · Score: 2, Funny

    erm, Mozilla and Opera have both done this for ages, and Konqueror will with KDE 3.1 (seems pretty stable in CVS already).

  4. Tabbed browsing? by halftrack · · Score: 3, Funny

    Person writing has obviously been using Netscape (and/or IE) a bit too long. Opera is born with it.

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  5. Re:Optional by WWWWolf · · Score: 2, Funny

    Mozilla's (and thus Netscape's) tabs are entirely optional.

    Besides, they work much better than the usual "MDI" interfaces - it's just an usual browser window with an added tab row, easily resizable! Much better usability-wise than the disaster that was Opera 5... =)

  6. netscape 5 by abe_is_fun · · Score: 2, Funny

    My favorite browser has always been Netscape 5 and I will never, ever, ever stop using it.

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  7. Windowblinds? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I can't believe you admitted that in a public forum for geeks. **head hung in shame**

  8. Re:As a Web Designer... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Glad to see you're back from your two-year vacation under a rock.

    You've got a lot of e-mail to catch up on, first off: "Subject: Netscape releases Netscape 6"

  9. User Farms by guttentag · · Score: 3, Funny
    When I first launched Netscape 7, I got about a dozen connections from eventfarm3-vip.ptn.aol.com.
    Flashback:
    There are farms, Marc, endless farms, where Netscape users are no longer born. We are grown...
    Yeah, so I know I'm a copper-top with a serial number... but does AOL have to make it so obvious?
  10. Re:Opera? by ncc74656 · · Score: 5, Funny
    Can it get rid of those stupid animations that show up on top of the page you are trying to read?

    If you're talking about stuff like text that follows the cursor around, I'm not aware of anything available for any browser that will shut those off...except maybe a .44 Magnum fired at the idiots who create such abhorrences. (That'll only keep more of them from being created, though.)

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  11. Re:It's impressive by xkenny13 · · Score: 3, Funny
    Even a Hellow World! is going to need more memory allocated to it than diskspace required to store it.

    Well, you could save yourself a byte if you spelled "Hello" right.

    Sorry ... had to. :-)