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?"

Comments

There's a Netscape 9? And 8? 7? 6?

[DogDude]

Wow. I had no idea that there were still "Netscape" browsers being made today. That's cute.

Re:There's a Netscape 9? And 8? 7? 6?

[Anonymous Coward]

Of course there is! Where have you been? You probably didn't notice that there is an Amiga OS/4 either, a 2008 Fortran standard, or a late 2005 release of the TinyCOBOL compiler. I'm sure a revised Gopher client is in the works, along with some juicy updates for our favorite C64 BBS program, Color64. It's great to live in the past!

Re:Who cares?

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe it will run on AmigaOS 4 - another cutting edge technology.

New netscape

[Guerilla* Napalm]

I remember Netscape like it was yesterday. *** assumes the foetal position, in a dark corner. ****

Re:There's a Netscape 9? And 8? 7? 6?

[OldManAndTheC]

What about punchcards? I want to be able to punch out "GET /index.html HTTP/1.1" on my IBM 029 and get the result back on a line printer...

revised Gopher client

[Tumbleweed]

Oh, man, that'd be awesome! If they could just add JavaScript to Gopher, it'd be perfect! And image support. And Flash. Yeah, that's all Gopher really needs to succeed. But that would be a pretty l33t Gopher, so we should probably spell it g0ph3r to save confusion. Either that or Bruce (since Archie and Veronica are already taken).

C64 BBS Software

[MagerValp]

Actually, C*Base is the preferred flavor nowadays, and 3.3 was just released:

C*Base 3.3

You gotta move with the times, man.

Re:Brand power

[spellraiser]

I mean, do I really have to mention AOL?

No, you really don't. You really, really, really don't. We got your point; there's no need to make evil threats like that.

Wha?

[KoldKompress]

Sorry, Net Who?

Re:The Underdog

[fistynuts]

In 1995, Widows and "internet" were synonyms to me I'm surprised your girlfriend put up with that.

Re:Is Netscape still taken serious?

[dcam]

To me it seems Netscape has lost his reputation as best browser.

Wow. Welcome to 1999.

Re:In a word...

[Dragonslicer]

Nutscrape is dead

Ah, Nutscrape Nadgrabber. Those were the days.

Re:Yes the Netscape Dev Team is working on Netscap

[Anonymous Coward]

I haven't a clue what an "anchor" is or does. Not much on a sinking ship.

not that bad

[noldrin]

Netscape 8 was actually a pretty interesting browser. It came preloaded on my laptop, it seemed pretty nice in several ways. I only used it to download seamonkey, but it did it really well.

Re:There's a Netscape 9? And 8? 7? 6?

[poot_rootbeer]

You probably didn't notice that there is an Amiga OS/4 either

It's half as good as IBM's OS/2, but way better than Tandy's OS/9.