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AOL to Release Netscape 7.2 Based on Mozilla 1.7
securitas writes "ZDNet's Evan Hansen reports that AOL will release Netscape Navigator 7.2 based on Mozilla 1.7 code this summer. The update comes a year after version 7.1 and after Microsoft stopped standalone development in Internet Explorer. eWEEK's Matt Hicks offers analysis of the new Netscape release, citing studies that say while Microsoft has a 93.9% browser market share and 87% of business users use IE, 25% still use Netscape and 11% use Opera -- the math works because people use multiple browsers. Hicks asks the question 'Is the Netscape Browser Being Reborn or Just Stabilized?' Hicks interviews several people in the know including a former Netscape engineer, an industry analyst, and Opera Software CEO Jon von Tetzchner."
I'm not sure where Netscape's strong-points are, but on a Mac (though things might be entirely different on Windows or others), it's one of the slowest browsers you can get, while IE for Mac goes much faster, and of course, Safari blazes past both of them with its RAM-based architecture (it doesn't waste time caching much of the web page to disk).
Although I've found IE for Windows to be incredibly slow with Javascript. I guess it's the plug-in use that determine most of the speed.
I am NOT a number! I am a - oh wait, I'm number 761710. Look! 761710!
WebTv is still around as MSNTv. It is a profitable division of Microsoft. They are now beta testing a broadband version of MSNTv. This will eliminate one of the real problems with the appliance. The new units have many long desired feature such as USB support, etc.
MSNTv is the ideal way to access the net for the totally inept. No virus or worms to worry about. While not everything that a PC will do can be done with MSNTv, surfing and email are easily done.
Most WebTv owners believed and still do believe that development of WebTv suffered greatly after its acquisition by Microsoft. Being assigned to the MSN division was another blow.
I remember them as a browser company I'm 22. I just asked a 15 year old, they remember them as abrowser company.
I think you're underestimating the memories of people, perhaps. Either way, 'netscape' is a name people know; whether it's Coke or New Coke.
Boycott Coke!
Join the Free Software Foundation
Your site is a niche site.
Let's see what a site that's visited by a broader audience (with a site that *do* work for all modern browers) tell?
- Browsers used to visit Google, April 2004
- Operating systems used to visit Google, April 2004
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
My site's primary audience is users of Orbiter space flight simulator, which only runs on Windows. IE accounts for only about 87% of the browsers being used to reach the site. I've also noticed that IE's "market share" has been steadily declining over the past year or so. Whatever the absolute numbers, that trend is of considerable interest.
who are those slashdot people? they swept over like Mongol-Tartars.
Yes I admit it. I one of those people who has always just used IE because it was there. Not even tabbed browsing got my attention. So what made me change?
I just got a new laptop with one of those wide screens. With the resolution set to 1920x1200 (recommended) IE just does not render correctly. Websites with graphics just look like hell in IE at this resolution. I installed Firefox and the sites look great.
Do I have something set wrong in IE or is this just one of the many short comings?