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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."
Does it fix the shyte rendering of slasdot?
Jesus, that screenshot is like the browser version of my grandfather's "retirement shirts". Except, only if he lived inside Spencer's Gifts, and was a science fiction drama from 1963, and had ADD. And rabies.
Ok, so who's the brainiac that figured it would be a good idea to take a screenshot with a "Microsoft is making progress" headline/news item?
Don't think that a small group of dedicated individuals can't change the world. It's the only thing that ever has.
A browser with the security of MSHTML and the sleek looks of a morbidly obese person's arse.
Get $0.75/hr [tinyurl.com] for doing nothing.
Wow the dot-com bubble is back from the dead!
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
It's the same Slashdot you've always visited.
To alienate the hordes of mac/linux users on AOL unable to use this browser is unconscionable. This is not the AOL we know from commercials on TV.
That theme looks like a Howard Johnson's had sex with my clock radio.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
"this Firefox UI is great and easy to use, so let's add a bunch crazy buttons and just generally shit all over it! Oh and throw in a theme that makes our customers want to claw out their eyes. And for extra confusion, make sure some of the pages load with IE so people are never sure what behaviour they're going to get!"
Netscape releasing an ugly, bloated browser with millions of useless features that nobody in their right mind would use? Now there's a surprise.
No, no, no, you got it all wrong. Not all Windows users are going to accept that crappy interface.
That's what AOL-brained people will like. They're willing to take crappy software from anyone, as long as it comes with flashy buttons and a "Me Too!" auto-posting button, too.
(Not.)
The worst of all worlds.
(Now that was serious.)
I've been hoping someone would do this.
(Unserious, more like fearing someone would do this.)
I guess I'll switch.
(Nearly coughing after fit of maniac laughter.)
No, not really. Sticking with Firefox. It seems to be what Netscape could have been had Netscape not believed its own hype and what IE should have been if only MS could see past proprietarily customizing everything that doesn't move fast enough.
(Looks like that IE-based browser that came with Flyswatter prominently packaged, but forget the name of it off hand...)
If my grammar and spelling are off, I am [distracted/tired/careless] (take your pick)
I don't know much about the Mozilla license, but could AOL (AOL did buy Netscape right?) (a) stop the development of Mozilla (change the license to closed source/proprietary) or (b) sell Netscape (Gecko engine of coruse)?
ME TOO!
(Darn it! Had to do that manually, there's no automagic ME TOO button in FF). Oh, and you forgot the auto-caps-lock preference (on by default) so that they can post in ALL CAPS!
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
I'm pretty sure people were making more than 75 cents per hour during the dot-com bubble. Unless you meant the 17th century tulip bubble.
Use the operating system's default widget set? Pffft. That is SOOO 1993.
Can you imagine how boring it'd be if you already knew where to find, say, the 'minimize' button on EVERY application? Where's the fun in that?
*POOF*
My brain just exploded. The tin-foil hat did nothing to help me.
Keep your eyes to the sky.
Sure, my ATI card can rotate the screen, and I can put my trinitron on its side, which is flat along one edge and would probably tilt my screen at just the right angle given the position it would hold on my desk. However, I haven't yet found a good use for a 1200x1600 display...
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Yes! Let's mirror the download page and not the file itself ;)
What did you expect from someone whose username is "Broke Mirror"?
Me. I demand some hazard yellow added to the interface immediately! Perhaps in some sort of warning box. A big caution sign, that's the ticket.
And then, on to the neon! Wheeeeee! Neon green, neon blue (Do they make neon cyan?), maybe we can even get some neon yellow and use that instead of hazard yellow.
And, dare we dream it? Yes, we dare.
Pink. I said it. PINK. BRIGHT PINK ALL OVER!
But don't worry, all these bright colors will be balanced out by the cyan. And the black. (Maybe some purple?)
For Netscape 10, we can just have someone vomit on the screen.
If corporations are people, aren't stockholders guilty of slavery?
+ 5 smug