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Firefox-Based Netscape 8 Beta Goes Live

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the fox-eating-lizards dept.

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."

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  1. Extensions by BobPaul · · Score: 5, Informative

    Unfortunately you can't install extensions cause they all say they don't support Netscape.

  2. Re:Does it fix the shyte rendering of slasdot? by drinkypoo · · Score: 4, Informative

    Slashdot misrendering actually happens MORE under Firefox 1.0.1 than on 1.0 - at least on my home PC. Kind of disturbing. It doesn't seem to happen at all at work (heh heh) using Mozilla 1.7.5. For what it's worth, slashdot seems to render properly, but the browser's interface is amazingly, astoundingly ugly.

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  3. Re:Mirror by OverlordQ · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes! Let's mirror the download page and not the file itself ;)

    Download

    it's on netscrape bandwidth so it should fare just fine.

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  4. Re:Does it fix the shyte rendering of slasdot? by Anonymous+Custard · · Score: 4, Informative

    Use Slashfix, and never worry about slashdot rendering errors again.

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  5. Re:Merged Menu Bar by DrXym · · Score: 4, Informative
    Probably not. In case you're interested, this effect is probably achieved by either a) overriding the paint routines for the non-client areas of the frame window or more likely b) producing a title-less frame window and handling mouse down events in the top area of the frame to simulate dragging the window around.

    I was going to suggest you load view-source:chrome://browser/content/browser.xul to see how the chrome does that top part, but their view-source: code seems to be broken. Ooops! Still, you could probably browse the .jar files if you were interested.

  6. Re:why? by Octagon+Most · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Supposedly the netscape version has built in the IE rendering engine for compatibility, while still maintaining the security of Firefox. We shall see. This may mean a browser that is vulnerable to every exploit."

    According to Walt Mossberg's review in the WSJ:

    "If a site is considered trustworthy, Netscape automatically renders it using the Internet Explorer method, for maximum compatibility. Internet Explorer's method for rendering Web pages opens security vulnerabilities that Firefox's doesn't. Netscape figures that, at trusted sites, it's OK to take that risk."