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AOL Releases Netscape Beta, Based on Firefox
An anonymous reader writes "Netscape has released their new prototype browser for Windows based on Firefox 0.9.3. The prototype's development was outsourced to Mercurial Communications and includes several Netscape specific extensions. The biggest difference from Firefox, however, is the ability to switch to the Internet Explorer rendering engine from within the browser using an IE ActiveX control. The browser is currently available for a limited download."
The prototype's development was outsourced to Mercurial Communications and includes...
That's the perfect name for a company hired to knock-off the Firefox browser:
Mercurial:
Having the characteristics of eloquence, shrewdness, swiftness, and thievishness attributed to the god Mercury.
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
In Korea, only the old use ActiveX controls.
hahahahhahaha.
worst. slashdot. cliche. evar.
That's like saying: it's got the ability to piss it's pants when it lacks a toilet!
Where's my free iPod!? Until then, I'll settle for a kiss...
Morpheus: Microsoft is our enemy, Firefox, but when you're on the internet, you look around. What do you see? Business men, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still IE users. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to switch to a browser that doesn't come included on their desktop when they bring their computers home from Best Buy and pop in the "2000 Free Hours!" AOL CD. And many of them are so inert, so hopelessly dependent on Microsoft that they will fight to protect it. Were you listening to me Firefox, or were you looking at the woman surfing the hot lesbo porn?
Firefox: I was...
Morpheus: Look again.
Woman has turned into Bill Gates, introducing new "standard" to break non-IE browsers.
Morpheus: Freeze it!
Firefox: What is it?
Morpheus: IE-only standards. That means that anyone we haven't converted over is potential audience for crappy sites who only QA against IE. On the internet, you see this everywhere. We have survived by being standards-based, by working to be compatible. But these false "standards" are the gatekeepers.
Firefox: Whoa.
Morpheus: I won't lie to you, Firefox. Every single company or product that has stood their ground, everyone who was fought Microsoft has been crushed or aquired. But where they have failed, you will succeed.
Firefox: Why?
Morpheus: I saw Microsoft crush Netscape's market share. Men have come up with fantastic innovations only to find them incompatible or MS copies already included in the next version of Windows. Yet their programs are still based on factory-style programming and decisions made by pointy-hairs. Because of that, they will never be as secure or as functional as you can be.
Firefox: What are you trying to tell me, that I can block pop-ups?
Morpheus: I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.
Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
Yes, you take a shower with your toaster. Right after masterbating with the garbage disposal.
If that's a mirror, then I really need to stop drinking so much if THAT is my asshole after last night.
Woohoo, that is the deal clincher. Sign me up for AOL today.
I shall go and tell the indestructible man that someone plans to murder him.
I don't understand... why would I want to be able to switch to an automated virus downloader?
... and in the DRM, bind them.
Ok, so...
Netscape is making a browser based on Firefox, Mozilla's browser that is based on it's bigger Mozilla browser which is based on Netscape's old browser.
My head asplode:/
. . . is that the lame IT guys at my school might finally replace the Netscape 6.x on all the machines with something a little closer to Firefox.
all the benefits of firefox, and the biggest downfall of IE!
AOL couldn't of made a better decision on this one.
No wonder why it's #1!
Runnin' On Empty
Didn't this kinda go around in a sort of weird Karma circle?
The new Netscape, based on Firefox...which itself is based on Mozilla...which is the off-shoot of Netscape.
Wow...just blew out me mind...
"Leo Fender was in a 'state of grace' when he designed the Stratocaster." -- Paul Reed Smith
Come on, this is AOL-TimeWarner we're talking about. It's not like zero-profit Mozilla was unique in that sense.
The biggest difference from Firefox, however, is the ability to switch to the Internet Explorer rendering engine from within the browser using an IE ActiveX control.
Netscape FAQ
Q: How do I enable exploits and viruses, that my friends are enjoying on IE ?
A: Go to Preferences/Web Features and check "Enable Virus and Exploits". Note that in the (rare) case where you don't get infected immediately you might have to surf on a few pr0n sites.
I wonder what people in Beverly Hills use for their fake zip code...
Required reading for internet skeptics
"The site you are viewing uses insecure extensions. Would you like to go into insecure mode?
Yes | No"
-- The act of censorship is always worse than whatever is being censored. Always.
I'll say this for them: they've completely killed the myth that OSS has less-polished, uglier UIs than commercial alternatives: that is one bumofugly browser.
*shudder*
Ah, alright - I'll look for this one then! Perhaps one can move away from IE completely when using it. :)