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Netscape 7.0 is Out
MrJones was one of many many users to submit that Netscape has released
Navigator 7.0 unto the world. With their dwindling market share, it'll be interesting to see what affect this has on internet users. But here's hoping it makes a dent.
There's no anti-javascript popup ads support. I'm sticking with Mozilla.
The CNET review of 7.0 is here.
Title: Don't switch browsers
Summary:
We had high hopes for Netscape 7.0, but we're sorely disappointed, especially by the missing pop-up suppressor. There's no practical reason to switch from either IE or Mozilla.
Data shows Netscape browser usage down to just 3.4%
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Microsoft's rival browser, Internet Explorer, by contrast, has an estimated 96%
of the market, according to Internet research firm WebSideStory.
http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0%2C4902%2C
-=Mongr=-
Here is the Netscape 7 reviewers guide. (PDF)
www.oobersworld.com - For those that ride.
So that you wont have to /. mozillazine.org here's the text with links:
Netscape Communications Corporation today launched the final version of Netscape 7.0. This latest release is based on Mozilla 1.0.1, making it the first Netscape browser to be built upon post-1.0 code. The new version boasts several enhancements over the 0.9.4-based Netscape 6.2, including tabbed browsing, the ability to save complete web pages, print preview, site icons (Favicons), a download manager, full screen mode (Windows only), Quick Search within Mail Newsgroups and Address Book, return receipts, mail labels, (Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) S/MIME mail encryption, CSS support in Composer and one-click web page publishing.
Netscape 7.0 also has several features not found in Mozilla. These include the ability to access Netscape Webmail and AOL accounts directly from within Mail Newsgroups, a button to easily toggle the display of My Sidebar in Navigator and P3P (Platform for Privacy Preferences) support for automated cookie handling. Improved instant messaging features including file transfers, Buddy Alerts and Buddy Icons are provided by AOL Instant Messenger for Netscape and ICQ for Netscape. There's also a round throbber with a cool animation.
Netscape 7.0 can be downloaded from Netscape's web site or FTP server. More details can be found at Netscape Browser Central or in the Release Notes.
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If you prefer bleeding edge code with more bugs then use Mozilla. It doesn't have any of the above and has the popup blocker UI. Web developers will also appreciate stuff like the DOM inspector and JS Debugger modules.
Guess you are just ignorant, dude. IBM RS/6000 workstations
One of the main challenges faced in getting users to use standards-compliant browsers over obsolete programs such as Netscape 4-series is also the computers. At places still using older systems or franken-systems, Moz (may just be too hefty for Windows. It doesn't seem as much of a problem on PCs, because IE is available, but many people still use NS4 for the mail client (and I cannot in good conscience tell them that Moz's is overwhelmingly superior, despite weird stuff like NS4 Mail encoding all messages in Rot13 by accident). It is an even bigger challenge with Macs, because many older Macs just won't comfortably run IE/mac, so NS4/mac is the browser of choice for aging Macs.
But saturating the market with standards-compliant browsers is helpful anyway. I could only wish more people knew about Mozilla, for their sake.
Karma: T-rexcellent.
http://ufaq.org/files/adblocker.xpi
I have not tried it with the final version of Netscape 7, but it should work unless they've blocked it some how.
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Go onto ebay.com, and take a look. You'll find RS/6000s come/came in all shapes and sizes, including standard desktop configurations.
AS/400s may be different, I haven't checked. But the RS/6000 was widely marketed as a workstation unit, and some versions even look like those old PS/2 units.
Posted as an AC because you'd probably want to correct your own posting rather than have everyone reading some smartRS/6000 correcting you, and because this is off topic.
Please, moderators, don't mod this up. Mod PotPieMan's correction up when it comes.
You can restore the feature with this
Guvf vf abg n EBG zrffntr
Mozilla 1.1 is more cutting edge and therefore has a few cute new features but will definitely have a lower MTBF.
In other words its horses for courses. Either take the features, or take the stability.
I would have to point out that that seems to be misleading. I've had more crashes with Netscape in one week than I have had in Mozilla in two months (and I use Mozilla MORE).
I've yet to find a bug in Mozilla (since the aforementioned fucky webpages above crash Netscape as well).
Actually, to be fair, there is one problem with Mozilla. When you go to the official Neverwinter Nights website, the pages render as a black screen. Since that's the ONLY site that does that, that would suggest to me it's bad web design rather than a bug.
Netscape Still gives a person the choice to have a browser that comes with a mail client that supports imap. Thats one reason we use it where I work as a sysadmin. Its easy to create and manage profiles for all our users in a matter of seconds, and has great support for using ldap for an address book.
Netscape on solaris is supported by SUN. The latest version available on Solaris is 6.2.3 u can get it from
Netscape On Solaris
Also solaris mozilla binaries take about 4-5 weeks before they are available on mozilla.org. And building it from source is pain in the A$$.
for the last time people, I am "frodo from middle eaRTH", not "middle eaST".
That's the difference between the browser Mozilla and the company Netscape? How do you compare a browser to a company?
The Internet suite distributed by Netscape Communications, a unit of AOL(tw), is called "Netscape". Version 4.x was called "Communicator". It began to be officially known as "Netscape" starting with version 6.
Ooooh! You meant the difference between Mozilla and Navigator, right?
From Mozilla 1.1, I pull down the Window menu, and I see the word "Navigator". I guess both Netscape and Mozilla use the term "Navigator" to refer to the web browser component.
Will I retire or break 10K?
I had turned popups on (a blog comment page required them) and forgotten about it. Visiting Netscape's page pops up a BIG HUGE ad for Netscape 7.
Check out CrazyBrowser. Tabbed browsing, popup blocker, etc. Based off of IE, but has a lot of the nice features of Mozilla.
Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Scripts & Windows -> Uncheck "Open Unrequested Windows".
:-)
You might want to check the other features there, too.
Now where's this bannerblind function you speak of? Sounds interesting.
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
i could not find anything that ns7 had that mozilla 1 doesn't (except for bundled "AOL Free & Unlimited" and RealAudio icons everywhere after install). in fact, there's no straight-forward way to disable popup ads (I've noticed netscape.com has several), whereas in mozilla you can. the whole download -> install -> try -> uninstall cycle took about 20 minutes.
Affect is to mood what climate is to weather.
This idea was invented by Shampoo.
They support it because some large companies require Netscape 4 for apps built in house.
There has been spell checker for Mozilla for some time now. You can download the mozilla spell checker from mozdev.org.
The site claims that the spellchecker should land in the mozilla tree probably right after 1.0. I guess it's late... but you can still download it yourself.
"I'm The Bounty Bear. I will find him anywhere. I'm searching."
It seems Radio@Netscape depends on popups to work.
It is a Mozilla addon, you can get it from http://bannerblind.mozdev.org/
:)
It looks at all the images on a page, and checks them against a list of normal banner sizes (which you can modify, add, delete, etc.), and hides the images that match those sizes, thus hiding most banner ads
You can get get the Linux spellchecker.xpi and the Windows spellchk.xpi from the Netscape FTP site along with some other options that aren't included with Mozilla. Yea, I know that there is a spellchecker project for Mozilla but it's not really ready yet - and my wife is really complaining about it.
Like refusing to access SSL pages
I don't think that's been a problem in Moz for a long time, maybe a year. I use it all the time
Mod parent up! The reason that the recent IE certificate bug exists at all is that they don't follow the standard.
A certificate using system MUST reject the certificate if it encounters a critical extension it does not recognize
IE does not process the critical basicConstraints extension (as well as others) and still accepts the certificate. Netscape (even back to version 4) will reject a critical extension that it does not recognize.
Stop Continental Drift! Reunite Gondwanaland!
It's true that affect and effect have noun and verb forms each. However, it's also true that 90% of the time, effect is a noun while affect is a verb.
Common usage inclues:
What will be the effects of this action?
What things will this action affect?
Because they are used in a related context so frequently, it does not surprise me that people have trouble with them, hence the simple rule of thumb: effect == noun, affect == verb.
In truth of course, you can 'effect' to bring into being, and something may have an 'affect', meaning an assumed aspect, perhaps even a pretentious one. In practice, these words are uncommon enough (though not rare) that many people are completely unaware of them.
And probably yes, especially Americans. Our poor schools :-(
-josh
Look for these lines in the prefs.js file in your profile directory, and make sure that they have the values indicated below. If the lines don't exist, just copy and paste the lines below into your prefs.js file.
user_pref("capability.policy.default.Window.open", "noAccess");
user_pref("dom.disable_open_during_load", true);
For lots of details about prefs, go here.