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Peeking at Netscape 8

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the under-da-hood dept.

Andrew Sayers writes "It seems like Netscape 8 has hit blogland, with generally positive review at blogspot.com - although it makes the point that the IE rendering mode could hurt Firefox in the long-run, because it gives sites an excuse to stick with their old IE-only designs." Ah, remember when the release of a Netscape mattered?

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  1. Its a imitator! by solafide · · Score: 5, Informative
    It is *based* on Firefox 1.0, yet it *imitates* IE, and it has its own new toolbar that is _ugly_. So why is it different from Opera which can imitate any browser, yet looks reasonable?

    Even 6.2 is nicer than 7.0, and any new release is a step further on the road to a horrendious browser that might be orange, black, and royal blue for its theme colors!

  2. Firefox has a small footprint? by fons · · Score: 4, Informative


    Don't get me wrong, I love and use firefox, but you won't get it installed on an old PI-233 with 32MB RAM.

    Internet Explorer DOES install and work on that configuration.

    1. Re:Firefox has a small footprint? by Ayaress · · Score: 5, Informative

      Just to test things out, I dug my P200 out. It has 16 megs of RAM and runs windows 95. Firefox was a bit slow to load up on it, but works fine once loaded. My laptop is a P166 with 90-some-odd megs of RAM, and it runs Firefox without a hitch.

  3. "positive review at blogspot.com"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    blogspot.com is a free hosting site for blogger.com weblogs. Saying "a review at blogspot.com" is like saying "a review at geocities.com" - it's meaningless, as anyone could have written it. If Slashdot is going to link to random bloggers, at least make it clear that the author is a random blogger as opposed to part of some semi-legitimate sounding site.

    At any rate, the reviews by Danial Glazman (author of Nvu and Mozilla Composer) and Blake Ross (of the Firefox team) are far more enlightening.

  4. Blogspot? by Lshmael · · Score: 4, Informative
    "It seems like Netscape 8 has hit blogland, with generally positive review at blogspot.com...
    Technically, the review is at the blog "Smiler's Scribbles," which is hosted on Blogspot. The post makes it sounds as if the Blogspot staff got together and reviewed the browser themselves, which they did not.