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Netscape 7.2 To Be Released August 3rd

Posted by timothy on from the installment-plan dept.

Following up a story from May, linux2004 writes "for those who thought Netscape was dead after firing all their staff and spinning Mozilla off into a non-profit foundation, then think again. It was announced a while back that Netscape would continue releases of their browser suite and now the release date has been confirmed as August 3rd as a free download or by buying a CD. I don't think it'll take the attention away from Firefox but will be a decent upgrade for those using Netscape 7.1. The 7.2 release will be based on Mozilla 1.7 and will probably have the usual Netscape additions."

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  1. Re:it's not the first time... by linuxci · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's the first release since the Mozilla *Foundation* was founded just over a year ago. It was formed July 15th, 2003 and Netscape 7.1 was released June 29th, at the time it was expected to be the last Netscape release.

  2. Re:Glad to hear it by will_die · · Score: 5, Informative

    Had that problem with firefox then got user agent switcher and use that when I need to lie about my brower type.
    You can mess around with the message that is send, so for instance you can report that you are internet explorer running on a commodore-64.

  3. Re:The best idea by linuxci · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Mozilla project if I am not mistaken is funded by Netscape.

    Well, since the formation of the Mozilla Foundation in July 2003 then Mozilla was totally independent of Netscape, they did get some cash off them and they still host some of mozilla.org's FTP mirrors (others are hosted at various volunteers) but now mozilla.org are not controlled by any way with Netscape. I'm sure they've done what they can to help Netscape with this release, but the Foundation are concentrating on standalone apps now rather than the Netscape style suite.

    If Netscape decides to make a Netscape 8.0 based on Firefox, great for them, but Firefox is now becoming a brand in its own right.

  4. Re:bloated by PaulJS · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, firefox is the best for most people, but it still may not suit everyone. There's reasons some people may install netscape:

    - They've always used it, happy with it and don't want to change even though there's obvious benefits (the same sorta people who still use IE) - at least Netcape is standards compliant.
    - Some people prefer the suite to standalone apps, Netscape builds on Mozilla by adding common plugins which make it easier for the normal user.

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