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."

Comments

Why use NS instead of Mozilla?

[wackysootroom]

Aside from being a propreitary product, what does netscape bring to the table that Mozilla does not?

Nostalgia

[AviLazar]

While Netscape is in my heart (well prior to AOL corrupting my teenage fav program) unfortunately netscape 4.7 was the last decent netscape. IE was so integrated that it flew past netscape :(
But in all honesty -why would I use netscape over firefox? Is there an advantage?

Re:Why though?

[linuxci]

Branding, your average PHB has heard of Netscape, not Mozilla.

Well funnily enough when I was looking at the Netscape home page I was redirected here. They're now using the Mozilla brand to push their browser:

Download the NEW Netscape® 7.2 browser (built with Mozilla) to take advantage of the latest security and popup blocking features and enjoy the best from Netscape.com.

Re:....and I'm posting from it.

[mobby_6kl]

>VERY lightweight (11.5MB installer for Windows)

compared to what? The latest Opera is 3.4 MB ;)

Re:Why though?

[drinkypoo]

Oh ok ok, here is my script. Please be warned that I am not a programmer (I am one who programs, but not as a vocation) and this is probably the absolute worst way to do this. It's just something I tossed together.

#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# nsundelete.pl - undelete messages not yet purged from netscape folders
#
while (<>) {
print STDERR $_ if ( $_ =~ "^Subject:.*" );
if ( $_ =~ "^X-Mozilla-Status:.*" ) {
chomp;
( $trash, $status ) = split(/\ /,$_);
print STDERR "Status: $status\n";
@chars = split(/ */, $status);
$chars[3] = $chars[3] - 8 if ( $chars[3] >= 8 );
print STDOUT "X-Mozilla-Status: " . join('', @chars) . "\n";
print STDERR "X-Mozilla-Status: " . join('', @chars) . "\n";
} else {
print STDOUT $_;
}
}

Note also that Slashdot may have inserted whitespace. I tried to replace all my greater than and less than symbols with the appropriate HTML entities but I might have missed something, so don't try this on your only copy of something and delete the source file before examining the output.

And finally, I LOVE PERL, MWAH!

Windows Annoyances

[gfxguy]

I listen to Neal Boortz. Before you start booing, let me finish. He recently had a problem with his computer and spyware bringing it to it's knees.

He actually said that computer nerds can hold their calls with advice and "told-you-sos", he bought the computer into the shop where he purchased it (and hawks continuously on the air).

A couple of days later he was back on the air talking about what a great job they did cleaning off all the junk - and installing Firefox to keep it from happening again. He went on to talk about how great Firefox was, and that it was free, and why would anyone want to keep using IE, etc., etc.

AFAIR, he even included a link on his web pages to the Mozilla site.

Pretty good publicity from a famous talk show host, even if you don't like him...