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HP to Install Netscape on all new PCs

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the bring-back-the-browser-wars dept.

TJ Parisi writes "News.com is reporting that HP / Compaq will begin to install all PCs sold in the US and Canada with Netscape. Users will be prompted with the option to set either Netscape or IE as the default browser." From the article: "The agreement, which the companies are set to announce Monday, is the first browser distribution deal with a major PC maker since the end of the browser wars in the 1990s, according to Netscape, a division of Time Warner's America Online subsidiary."

23 of 401 comments (clear)

  1. About time? by cdn2k1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow, its good to see HP getting with the times... the times being 1991...

  2. Great! by Paris+The+Pirate · · Score: 0, Funny

    What a fucking awful idea. "With HP... Now you get two shit browsers for the price of one!"

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  3. First post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    First post!

  4. So... by Anyletter · · Score: 1, Funny

    Are we going to see Firefox and Opera on more machines, or is this just another attempt by AOL to infect the world?

  5. Middleman by patrickclay · · Score: 3, Funny

    Great! Now users can use Netscape instead of Explorer to navigate to www.getfirefox.com

  6. Don't worry! by callipygian-showsyst · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't worry! Microsoft will buy AOL so they'll win no matter what the customers choose.

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  7. There's a Netscape Browser? by Pii · · Score: 3, Funny

    Other than Firefox?

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  8. Just in time... by Osrin · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... for 1997. Do they have a secret plan to offer Firefox in 2026?

  9. Netscape? by jmilezy · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...What's netscape?

  10. Dichotomy by ndansmith · · Score: 2, Funny
    What about Opera? Is a two-browser system better than a IE monopoly, or should there be more choices? It seems sort of arbitrary in 2005 to force a choice between Netscape and Internet Explorer. 1995 called . . .

    . . . wait, I hate those jokes.

  11. Grammar nazi says... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The browser wars is something that really shouldn't of happened.

    SHOULDN'T *HAVE*!!!

    1. Re:Grammar nazi says... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      How about shouldn't've?

    2. Re:Grammar nazi says... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      How comes you caught that one and let 'loose' go unnoticed. Shame on you!

    3. Re:Grammar nazi says... by TossCobble · · Score: 1, Funny

      maid perfect sence 2 me.

    4. Re:Grammar nazi says... by sharkey · · Score: 2, Funny

      Nothing to say about the subject of his post? Half-assed grammar nazi if you ask me.

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    5. Re:Grammar nazi says... by smellsofbikes · · Score: 2, Funny

      I wouldn't'v'd the guts to propose such an awful-looking solution.

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  12. Netscape is faster!! by Professor_UNIX · · Score: 2, Funny
    Haven't you seen that Netscape is up to 5 times faster than Juno or Netzero's standard dialup service?

    /loves brand whoring

  13. Re:I've had issues with Mozilla - firefox is bette by Guardian+of+Terra · · Score: 5, Funny

    Please return RH7.1 and generally consider to stop robbing musemus.

  14. Mozilla 8:16-19 by twitter · · Score: 2, Funny
    ... and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.

    "Fools!" cried their second in command, who most resembled Uncle Fester. He then made a great commotion with chairs in his office and moaned like a Wildebeast, "I will KILL NETSCAPE! I have done it before and I will do it again."

    And he laughed a cruel laugh as he ordered his Developers to craft all manner of Evil for Netscape. "My master says this is His Platform and none can compete therein. HP shall be punished and blamed for their insolence." Before a single unit was shipped the trap was laid.

    So the New XP, according to it's master's instructions, reported the offenders who dared challenge the The Browser and there was a great plague on device drivers for the unfortunate users and other dependents.

    For Yeah, HP had not learned the Digital Research Lesson, and though they slew their own son, the Beast of Redmond is impossible to satisfy without perfect Obedience.

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  15. Re:Netscrape is still around? by acebone · · Score: 1, Funny

    Firefrocks - that's funny, I'd love to see a firefrog logo tho'. Take out that dog and put in a frog :)

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  16. Capitalism! MEH! by dud83 · · Score: 2, Funny

    "a division of Time Warner-America Online-Netscape-HBO-Turner Broadcasting Systems-New Line Cinema-Time Inc-"!
    Excellent... :/

  17. Re:netscape sucks by NanoGator · · Score: 4, Funny

    "who analy raped netscape when i wasent looking? seriously i used it in 1997 and it was good but every new version just seems more bloated and slow"

    That sounds more like marriage than anal rape.

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  18. Great.. by StikyPad · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now if they'd just refrain from installing all the other crap like Easy Internet Setup, 30 WildTangent Spywa^h^h^h^h^hGames, Compaq Control Center, Crippled AntiVirus, and 3 Day Trial MS Office.

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