A First Look at Netscape 7

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."

Comments

Ctrl-Tab Analogue in Mozilla's Tabbed Browsing?

[plimsoll]

I've used the rudimentary predecessor to tabbed browsing (Open Link in New Window...) for a while, and I loved that it helps me preserve my stream-of-consciousness while scanning the news.

I'd hoped tabbed browsing would spare me the memory overhead of having all those windows open, but it doesn't have a crucial feature; hotkey cycling through tabs.

After I open a bunch of interesting stories in new windows on Slashdot, for example, I can Ctrl-Tab between windows according to the whims of my rampant ADD.

Alt-Tab between programs, Ctrl-Tab between documents seems to be a pretty accepted convention in the Win32 environment.

Am I missing an undocumented keyboard shortcut here?

Re:me too?

[debrain]

Less a result of object oriented programming, I would hazard, and more component oriented API. MS COM objects, though hellish beasts of complexity themselves, mitigate and abstract user application complexity. The COM model is in mild competition with the markup model of XUL and XPCOM seen in Mozilla/Netscape, which makes for an interseting debacle, philosophically if not just technically.

It's the NAME

[Kraegar]

To all those questioning why use netscape instead of Mozilla... Netscape isn't targetted towards you. It's targetted towards the masses of people for whom their first online experience WAS netscape. They'll hear Netscape is back with a shiny new version, with new features, and give it a try. Or at least that's the idea.

AOL didn't buy netscape purely because Mozilla is a great product, they bought it because the Netscape name has a huge amount of recognition.

So yeah, Mozilla's better... but who's heard of it? Not joe-sheep user.

Re:Recognizing IE's Strengths

[Wylfing]

These kinds of comments always make we want to barf. It's the same type of reasoning that you see over here. The basic premise of these arguments is that you can't switch away from MS technology because it'll baffle Joe Dumbass.

But of course I want to refute the individual lies and misinformation too, just because you are an insufferable moron:

AOL isn't going to be stupid enough to try foisting a noticeably slower browser on their users

Mozilla RC2 pops up from a cold start (hasn't been run before) in about 4 seconds on my machine. IE takes -- guess what? -- about 4 seconds from a cold start too. And that's not using Quickstart, which would've boosted Mozilla's performance.

People are used to IE, most sites were designed with it in mind

I'm sure you mean that "web pages won't render unless you use IE." That's pure BS. I always install Mozilla or derivatives (e.g., Netscape) for machines I support and not once has a page failed to render. Oh wait, by "most sites" you must mean MSN.

nothing can change the fact that, when it comes to the simple activity of browsing, the MS product gives a smoother user experience.

What the blazing hell does "smoother" mean? Both Opera and Mozilla provide what is clearly a superior browsing experience. Maybe by "smoother" you mean "more apt to get hacked by a malicious script" or "capable of having your bookmarks, start menu, desktop, and registry tampered with by web sites with questionable motives."