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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Re:Is Netscape still taken serious?

[coke_scp]

It's more used probably by most geeks, but I've been suprised to find it (Netscape) the corporate [well, university, they're screwy] standard in alot of places. 4.7, usually. Also worked in a variety of decent-sized places (3000ish computers) that haven't gone from 2000 to XP yet. It works, don't break it. At least in the corporate world. Personally, I'm happy with Firefox 1.5.something. Tried 2.0, it screwed my bookmarks, various other things. Instructions were available to fix that, such as a clean install, deleting the program directory first, etc., but I'm not upgrading .5 versions of something that works fine until the upgrade is seamless. Anway, back vaguely to the topic, if you've stuck all your eggs in the Netscape basket for the last 15 years, it might be more expensive to move them to a different/multiple baskets? (I don't agree, but I haven't tried.) IANASP