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

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*!

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: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".