Netscape 9 to Undo Netscape 8 Mistakes?

An anonymous reader writes "MozillaZine reports that Netscape 9 has been announced. The most interesting thing is how they seem to be re-evaluating many of the decisions they made with Netscape 8. Netscape 9 will be developed in-house (Netscape 8 was outsourced) and it will be available for Windows, OSX, and Linux (Netscape 8 was Windows only). Although Netscape 9 will be a standalone browser, the company is also considering resuming support for Netscape 7.2, the last suite version with an email client and Web page editor. It remains to be seen whether Netscape will reverse the disastrous decision to include the Internet Explorer rendering engine as an alternative to Gecko but given that there's no IE for OS X or Linux, here's hoping. After a series of substandard releases, could Netscape be on the verge of making of a version of their browser that enhances the awesomeness of Firefox, rather than distracts from it?"

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Nothing worthwile?

[Hurricane78]

So you think that *proper* CSS 2.1 (3?), XHTML 1.1, DOM 3, SVG, clean minimalistic ui and tabs, popup blocker, adblocker and tons of other plugins are nothing worthwile and that firefox is an unstable memory hog?

*lol*

Building sites with any browser before mozilla 0.8 and newer versions of opera (including ANY version of IE) was a sheer *nightmare* of tables and transparent pixels, woven in style (font- and similar tags!) declarations and general non-working chaos.
Using those sites with it was looking at *really* ugly sites while living in popup- and advertisement-hell.

Sure Netscape 3 could be fast without including any of nowadays technology and being just an ugly hack of the W3C-standards.

About your stability rant: You're just writing the same wrong crap some poeple like to rant about for the last 3 years, and you *know* it.
You know that FF is no memory hog but has a feature (wich i appreciate btw), so you can restore tabs and go backwards trough your history more quickly (= without reloading the whole thing). And you can disable that if you don't like it. Try changing such internal settings (=design decisions) with any other browser.
And you simply keep ignoring it.
I don't know where you got the rest from, but the only crashes and memory losses i had were from crappy plugins. I found a blacklist, disabled them, and i was back to normal.
And you're ignoring that too.

The simple fact is: If you want more features, you *have* to use more resources. And if not... well, there's still netscape 3 for you.
It's the same thing as with java: Automatic buffer-overflow-protection, garbage collection and bytecode OR absolute 100% speed. You can't have both. But you can choose.

So stop to slate FF for things you chose to ignore... FORVER.
And: Welcome to the year 2007!