Firefox-Based Netscape 8 Beta Goes Live

pigmelon writes "According to BetaNews, 'America Online's Netscape team has opened its doors to the public, releasing the first beta of the revived Netscape Web browser. (screenshot) Based upon Firefox, Netscape version 8 focuses on security and user privacy, and supports rendering with both Mozilla's Gecko and Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser engines.' Before downloading the beta, remember that it uses Firefox 1.0, which contains some vulnerabilities."

Comments

Re:one word

[diegocgteleline.es]

Ugly.

Exactly. That's what Windows-brained people will like.

Re:Does it fix the shyte rendering of slasdot?

[giant_toaster]

Thats cool... never seen that before!

Re:Does it fix the shyte rendering of slasdot?

[jp10558]

I must say I have thankfully never encountered this as I use Opera, but where is the vaunted OSS quick fix to bugs?

I mean, why isn't it out in 1.0.1, the first mainstream release that came out after the fix is in nightlys (IIRC anyway)???

I mean, being in nightlies is great, but that's as helpful to the average user as having bugs fixed in internal builds for propriatery software.

And using an extension like slashfix, which DOESN'T fix the code(unless I'm mistaken, it just really quickly does the zoom in/out) is like using proxomitron to fix Opera rendering bugs.

To me, I'm not seeing any of the supposed benefits of OSS right now. Why isn't there some patch you can download(that fixes the actual problem), or better yet, why isn't the official release fixed yet? This isn't something new. . .

I'm not seeing the mozilla foundation behaving any differently than say Opera has on several longstanding bugs, which to me as a user who likes final releases (most users, esp corps) is just as frustrating as the GMail (Fixed, in - Opera beta for fricken ever, but STILL no final release).