Netscape 7.2 Released

Posted by michael on Tuesday August 17, 2004 @04:50AM from the mozilla-inside dept.

scottfi writes "America Online has just released Netscape 7.2. Based on Mozilla 1.7, this latest version features better popup blocking, vCard support, an improved junk mail algorithm, better standards support, performance enhancements and several hundred other bug fixes. It also includes patches for recent security vulnerabilities. It is a little over a year since AOL shut down the Netscape browser division, laid off or reassigned the remaining engineers and withdrew from the day to day running of mozilla.org. At the time, they said that new versions of Netscape were unlikely. Earlier this year, they changed their minds and announced Netscape 7.2. More details about Netscape 7.2 are available at Netscape Browser Central, together with download links."

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Given IE and Netscape battles of the past... by FerretFrottage · 2004-08-17 05:00 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I wonder if this is WinXP SP2 compatible? I suspect that it is since Mozilla 1.x has been working for me with SP2 installed, but I wouldn't put it past MS to stick it to Netscape one more time.

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What keeps me from using netscape by sugarmotor · 2004-08-17 05:21 · Score: 0, Flamebait

is the right-wing propaganda and idiotic articles on their homepage (netscape.com)

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Say it ain't so by Rick+the+Red · 2004-08-17 07:56 · Score: 1, Flamebait

vCard support
One of the crappiest ideas ever, second only to the [blink] tag. Why should I use a browser that supports this shit? Oh, because they all do and I have no choice? I was afraid of that.

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