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AOL Releases Netscape Beta, Based on Firefox

Posted by michael on from the browser-wars-still-over dept.

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."

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  1. Also by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    There are screenshots and comments over at Planet Mozilla.

    1. Re:Also by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Just install the Tab Browser Extension for Firefox. It supports moveable tabs, saving tabs when you close, multiple rows of tabs, etc. Firefox lacks them because not everyone wants them, and they're available with a simple extension download for those that do.

    2. Re:Also by tvadakia · · Score: 5, Informative

      Try the Tabbrowser Extensions (http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/_tabextensions.html. en) extension for Firefox. Beats anything even Avant can fassion. Enjoy IE free browsing.

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  2. Yet at the same time... by the_mighty_$ · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...they are beta testing a new IE based browser.

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  3. Re:Perfect Name for a Ripoff Artist by Jugalator · · Score: 5, Informative

    They did support the Mozilla development environment for a good many years for like 0 profit

    Actually did far more than that...

    They donated $2 million to the Mozilla Foundation to get them going and willingly donated the mozilla.org domain name, the Mozilla-related trademarks, and related equipment such as the mozilla.org servers, to Mozilla Foundation. They was obliged to do none of this, just having purchased Netscape and got all this along with them.

    See also this story.

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