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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."
What is this Netscape software you speak of?
Just looking at the Netscrape icon reminds me of my high school where they used Nutscrape 4.x (despite what you might be thinking I graduated in 2003...yes my high school sucked when it came to software). This memory alone is enough to make me want to stray away from the newest Netscape. But on a more serious note, is there anything that the Netscape release offers that Mozilla/Firefox doesn't? If there is nothing, then the only purpose that I can see to Netscape is as a possibly more comfortable way to switch people from IE. It seems to me like more people probably remember Netscape and feel comfortable with it rather than some "open source", animal toting browser that they probably have never heard of before.
SIGFAULT
So. What.
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vk.
AOL supports IMAP now, so we can use whatever mail client we want to check it.
This move was in response to people dropping AOL because they had to use the lousy mail tools.