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First Peek at Netscape Navigator 9

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the check-out-them-peepers dept.

lisah writes "Netscape released a beta version of Navigator 9 (Linux.com shares corporate overlordship with Slashdot) today that includes several new components while giving some old ones the boot. This release will no longer ship with mail or composer but does have URL correction, a pre-populated RSS feed menu, and a neat clipboard in the browser's sidebar that will hold links to websites you want to visit again but not necessarily bookmark."

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  1. Re:How well does it work with Napster? by Kelson · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Believe it or not, at one point AOL actually had a low-cost connection service that they branded as "Netscape." They were convinced that they should be able to get something out of the brand name, even if they were practically ignoring the browser and didn't own the server (IIRC, Netscape sold their server division to Sun before AOL bought them), so they were slapping it on anything they could think of.

  2. Re:Netscape eh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I thought the Microsoft monopolizing juggernaut that is Internet Explorer wiped out the once famous net browser...guess I was wrong. Err.. Firefox pretty much is Netscape, isn't it? Maybe there's no code left from the original open sourced Netscape anymore, but still - Mozilla Browser was based on Netscape, and Firefox is based on Mozilla. So Firefox is a heavily forked/rewritten Netscape, right?

    Or maybe I'm just an idiot.