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Netscape 7.2 Released

Posted by michael on 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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  1. Does it matter? Opera's still the best browser... by WIAKywbfatw · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Opera's still the best browser out there, and well worth the money for the ad-free version.

    Even the free, ad-supported verstion is preferable to anything else out there, including Mozilla.

    Virtually all those cool features that you take for granted in Mozilla came from Opera, and Opera has a ton more yet still has a much smaller footprint. It's faster, richer, smaller and just plain better than the competition.

    Frankly, if you haven't tried it recently then you're doing yourself a great disservice.

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  2. Re:Article Text Stolen! by the_mad_poster · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Down down down! Parent post is confugins! Down down down!

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  3. Re:What keeps me from using netscape by Brandybuck · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I see that their news blurbs aren't praising Kerry as the savior of all mankind, but other than that I can't detect much of a political bias.

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  4. Re:MOD ABUSE! by angrykeyboarder · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How about when CNN spent hours and hour sucking up to the dead right-wing "God", Ronald Reagan? OR how they and the rest of the media were incessantly harping on the Monica Lewinsky scandal. How "right wing" of them....

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  5. Re:MOD ABUSE! by angrykeyboarder · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    oops. LMAO. I meant "how 'left-wing' of them" (with tongue in cheek of course).

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