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.

Comments

6, 6.1, 7?

[n-baxley]

Why the quick jump to version 7? Is it just to match AOL v.7 or some other strange reason that my small non-marketing brain can't figure out?

Re:6, 6.1, 7?

[DNS-and-BIND]

Frankly, it might be better if they just skipped that altogether, and renamed the product. Half the comments on here are people trashing the product just because it's named, "Netscape".

Please, AOLTW, switch to NS from IE for AOL..

[iamsure]

Please,

As a webdesigner, a web game developer, and as an internet user, please for the love of God, start the browser war back up.

When we have competition, at a scale over 20% for the browser, we will FINALLY see standards begin to matter!

AOL needs to:

- Aggressively work with computer makers to ship NS as the default browser in place of IE. More power to them if they also get AOL on it.

- Aggressively work to woo corporations to using Netscape again. Thats where Netscape was immensely powerful before, and where they can be again!

- Replace AOL's IE rendering engine with NS. They began with a closed beta, continued to Compuserve, moved it to AOL 4 Macs, now they need to do it on ALL of AOL.

With that, we may see a reverse in the tides. ANYTHING short of all of that, and it will be just a ripple.

PLEEEEEASE AOL, NS7 *IS READY*!

Re:Please, AOLTW, switch to NS from IE for AOL..

[goldspider]

An interesting editorial, especially since these all are the exact same things (essentially) that put IE on most desktops: making deals with software vendors and aggressively (and intrusively) push their product down the throats of its potential user base.

If NS/Mozilla is going to win this "browser war", they'll have to do it by creating a better product (which I believe they are on track to do). More "aggressive" marketing will only embitter people as MS has done with its omnipresent IE.

My Mozilla story

[SquadBoy]

many people hate Netscape what with the AOL stuff the ads etc etc. But just about everyday here at work I convert someone to Mozilla and/or show them some way in which it is better than IE. This has gotten to the point where next week I have a meeting with our MIS department to implement Mozilla in addition to IE as a standard. The moral of the story start using it and when people have a problem with IE test using Mozilla many times it will work and people will start to use it and love it. Also the whole blocking popup thing is a good way to sell people on it. :)

Re:Steroptypical response

[SquadBoy]

My experience has been just the oposite. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=38925&cid=4165 421

Re:Mozilla needs to be advertised!

[SquadBoy]

Or do what I do. Use it at work, test with it. I've had *many* cases where it is faster and/or better than IE. Show people the popup blocking. Show people the pretty themes. Most of the company I work at (~400 people) use Mozilla at least some of the time and a good chunk of those use it almost all the time. Word of mouth works great for Mozilla because it *really* is better in many ways.

Re:Can we harass the CapitalOne's???

[cswiii]

I posted the e-mail I sent to capital one, to the mozilla bug in question. Indeed, I did cancel my Capital One card -- I found a much, much better fixed rate somewhere else, anyway. I encourage you, and others, to do the same.

In case bugzilla gobbles up the slashdot link, cut and paste from here:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id =89853# c16 ..oh yeah, and remove the spaces in the URL that slashdot adds.

Re:CNet Review - "Don't switch browsers"

[linderdm]

Its funny that their review of IE 6 scored the same as Netscape 7, 7 out of 10. It is funny to read the review because it pretty much says what the Netscape 7 review says, but for IE. "Don't switch if you like Netscape", "No startling improvements or features", etc. What I would like to see is an update to the IE 6 review that makes new comparisons to NS 7 instead of 6.1 and see what he thinks then. His review of Netscape 7 just didn't do that.

Re:Stability?

[satanami69]

I used to run into the same problem with long log out times when something crashed on Win2k. Ive found that having a backup administrator was very useful. Instead of logging out, you lock the workstation. Then when it gives you the message that only user or and admin, log in as the other admin and it'll quickly log you out without hurting anything.