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Netscape 7.2 Released
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."
Releasing new versions from beyond the grave!
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.
But alas, all of the other AOL "bonuses" counteracted the new features.
Does it include a feature to allow right-mouse button clicking even if a web page's code disables it?
Probably the marketing department.
Non, je ne veux pas coucher avec toi ce soir.
That AOL charm we have all come to know and love.
alot of old baggage and memories of a ship's-wheel icon.
If a tree falls in the forest, and there's nobody around to hear it...
I have to admit, I was wondering the same thing too, time to go check those timestamps.
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
If a browser is available for download, and nobody downloads it, it is really released?
Netscape family is like the Griffeys of baseball, the offspring is infinitely better then the parent.
I thought the lasts dying gasp was when the original developers stopped trying to make a better product and decided to just start lawsuits as a means of generating revenue. Granted Microsoft wasn't playing fair, but that was no excuse to go around whining like a little kid.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
Yep, they did, and it's only US$9.95 per month. I use it at home, and I'm fairly happy with it. They did screw up on one billing by charging twice, but they fixed it before I even noticed, and they credited me with three free months.
I'm hoping they don't fire the person in Accounting responsible. I want it to happen again!
Friends, geeks, slashdotters, lend me your bandwidth;
I come to bury Netscape, not to praise it;
The evil that AOL does lives after it,
The good is oft interréd with their bones,
So let it be with Netscape....
"...all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness..." yada yada
The Underpants Gnomes, it has something to do with step 2.
I'm still using Firebird, because I've been too preoccupied to keep up. Wasn't there some issue with one of the names conflicting with the database system? Is it Phoenix, or has that been confused a BIOS of the same name and they're moving on to another?
Here's a thought! They just found a a previously undiscovered bird species in the Philippines, they could name it after that and beat every other software product!
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Finally, a browser that can defeat reigning champs NCSA Mosaic, Arena, and Cello! *Anything* that breaks their monopoly-like dominance of the Web browser market will be welcomed!
"users mostly don't notice a change." except you have to switch themes. The address book disappears. E-mail disappears. There's some goofy xor trick to delete mail.
And somebody mods this as informative, rather than funny?
Uhoh... my Netscape 7.2 seems to be broken. It's blocking all popups except those on Netscape.com!!! HELP!!!
>I wrote a perl script to this but it's so easy to do that I won't bother to provide it :)
Could you just scribble it in the margins of this page? Thanks, that would save alot of us about 300 years worth of pain.
The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
except for some caveats (like address books disappearing)
Wow, that sounds pretty serious. But at least they didn't lose any mail--
Also sometimes email disappears
I'd say that at least none of your users had their hard drives spontaneously reformat themselves, but I'd be scared to read your reply.
Oh and I forgot to mention, your* tax dollars paid for this, so I hereby release it into the public domain. I hope that's not exceeding my authority but I doubt anyone will care because it's not patentable.
* If you live in the US, especially California.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
I'm a non-technical type, and I use IE 6 exclusively. I find it laughable that people would use that Mozilla 1.7 thing when IE is clearly 4.3 better.
Though I do plan to switch to Netscape because it is, of course, 1.2 better than IE.
Yeah, and 3MB of that is Google adverts!
Mostly on-topic, fairly humorous and requires a bit of geek knowledge to understand it.
One of the best "first post"'s in a long time.
Cheers!
Netscape simply rebrands Mozilla, and that obviously takes time to do
s/Mozilla/Netscape/g
> Mozilla = Netscape
A message from the slashdot compiler:
Thanks a lot, you've just overwritten all the fixes in mozilla since the last AOL fork.
Next time please pay more attention and write the proper Mozilla == Netscape statement