Netscape Navigator 9.0 Beta 1 released
by Antony
After months of teasing, Netscape.com has finally released Netscape Navigator 9.0 Beta 1 to public.
New features of Netscape Navigator 9 includes visual refresh which saves screen space, URL correction, news menu and sidebar, Link Pad, news tracker and more. (Please refer to what's new page for more detail.)
Netscape Navigator 9 is available as a standalone installation for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.
We will update this MozInfo701 entry and Netscape Browser Archive's Netscape 9 section shortly. In the meantime, please join our discussion - “Netscape 9.0 beta1 released” for the latest development.
Thanks to SillyDog701 member orizng informing us about Netscape 9.0 Beta 1.
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Posted by Antony Shen on June 5, 2007 9:46 AM
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I am very disappointed with N9. It is just firefox with some Netscape makeup. If I wanted Firefox I would use just use Firefox!!! However, I happened to be a huge Netscape 8 fan. It's the best browser on the web for me. Firefox does not display many web pages correctly, has a cheap look and feel to it. As a web developer I need to design for IE and Netscape 8 had the feature to "display like IE or Firefox" and that worked great. Firefox's plugins annoy me. They always have to be updated and then many times they are not compatible with the new version of Firefox and so you lose the feature. The best feature of N8 was the password management which worked 100 times better than any other browsers. Please I loved the webmail feature which with 1 click you can log into any webmail server so easily. All these features are gone. I don't like the new look. It's supposed to save space but it has lost it's clean look and is very cluttery, hard to find things. I'm sorely disappointed. Why do we need another firefox browser?
