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Netscape 4.7 Arrives on the Scene

Posted by Hemos on from the hearts-unfold-like-flowers-before-thee dept.

Stephen Donner wrote to let us know that Netscape 4.7 is out and ready for download, albeit for UNIX/Macintosh systems. The FTP server is behaving like a slug so be patient. Here's to hoping that when I download it, it fixes some of these JavaScript "issues".

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  1. Yes, with X resources by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5

    I don't know where the documentation (if any) is, I figured most of this out by reading the XFE code. From my .Xdefaults:

    Netscape*toolBar.search.isEnabled: false
    Netscape*toolBar.destinations.isEnabled: false

    Netscape*toolBar.numUserCommands: 1
    Netscape*toolBar.userCommand1.commandName: findInObject
    Netscape*toolBar.userCommand1.labelString: Find
    Netscape*toolBar.userCommand1.commandIcon: Find

    Netscape*MailThread*toolBar.numUserCommands: 2
    Netscape*MailThread*toolBar.userCommand1.commandNa me: separator

    Netscape*MailThread*toolBar.userCommand2.commandNa me: compressAllFolders
    Netscape*MailThread*toolBar.userCommand2.labelStri ng: Reveal
    Netscape*MailThread*toolBar.userCommand2.commandIc on: Search
    Netscape*MailThread*toolBar.userCommand2.documenta tionString: Reveal filed messages

    I haven't downloaded, but I bet I'm going to be adding a "shopping.isEnabled: false" line real soon now..
  2. Re:Mozilla Feature Req: Easy image autoload toggle by Jamie+Zawinski · · Score: 5
    Here's my "All I Ever Wanted From Netscape Or Mozilla" list, for which I've been waiting since Netscape 3.01:
    • Image autoload on/off from the Options menu with one click, like NS3.01.
    • Java/Javascript enable/disable from the Options menu with one click, unlike any Netscape version ever released.
    • GIF animation enable/disable from the Options menu with one click, unlike any Netscape version ever released.

    Heh. I implemented these in the 3.02 codebase years ago. Plus S/MIME. Too bad they wouldn't let me release it as 3.1 back before 4.0 shipped. It would have been a "distraction", apparently.

  3. Re: async DNS by Jamie+Zawinski · · Score: 5
    Netscape always eats 100% CPU when doing gethostbyname from it's external async DNS process. This happens regardless of whether you type the site name on the command line or in the location bar.

    It isn't really a bug, since it is implemented exactly the way it was designed. It is still a bad design. Maybe you should send them a note.

    The hell it's not. It was not designed that way, it was designed so that both processes would be idle until such time as the DNS server responded. See unix-dns.h. Someone must have botched things so that netlib is looping calling DNS_ServiceProcess() repeatedly, even though the fd returned by DNS_SpawnProcess() has not yet been marked readable.

    This isn't too surprising, though, since netlib is such a mess that this "looping" failure mode is one of the most common things to go wrong.

  4. Amen to that by Skyshadow · · Score: 5
    Good point; real PNG support is critical now.

    If they fully implement PNG tomorrow, it'll still be 1-2 years before I can justify using it in site design (because you gotta let the don't-wanna-upgrade sect catch up). I don't wanna use UNISYS's .gifs anymore, but .jpgs don't work in all situations.

    Another thing: let me shut off the ability for sites to spawn new windows. It don't want every damn site I go to sending me to porn sites and casino sites so the damned site owner can make a few cents. Shut it off, I'll turn it back on if I ever feel like smacking gophers.

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  5. Wait for Mozilla-Based Netscape by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5
    The Mozilla team is wrapping up M11, which should be feature-complete for the beta version (which should follow not terribly soon after). We're in the home stretch now. Sure, you could download Netscape 4.7, with its wonderful new "Shop" button, but if you want to use an increasingly stable, fast, ground-breaking browser, use the Mozilla nightly builds and report bugs. AFAIK, the only major features we are missing are encryption (because we legally can't put them in at the moment) and OJI (which is implemented for some platforms, but I can't remember if Linux is one of them). New features we have, if you haven't seen the nightly builds, include a Search function which is similar in functionality to Apple's Sherlock (only better) and a whole slew of bug fixes since M9. Common. Go try it.

    Think Mozilla.