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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista
- Date added: February 20, 2008
- Total Downloads: 2,578,645
- Downloads last week: 4,229
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 350 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
The new Netscape Navigator takes a Firefox foundation, some neat Sidebar innovations, and an inside track to the Netscape.com social-networking and news site to create a browser that has some great features with minimal wonkiness.
Netscape.com is a huge part of the new Navigator: some new features might not be of interest if you don't hang out there. The Share button inside the address bar connects you directly to Netscape.com. Highlight content from the page and hit Share. The content becomes a summary, in a box that just needs a few tags to be submitted to the collective. Already-posted articles show Vote and Discuss icons instead of Share.
Bookmarks and History are self-explanatory sidebars, but a series of Netscape.com-related ones work well, too. Netscape Friends' Activity shows you what your friends have been doing, Netscape Tracker tracks the latest site updates, and Netscape News tracks only news posts. Non-Netscape.com users--a small, rebellious group, no doubt--will appreciate the Mini-Browser sidebar, which is essentially two tabs opened simultaneously, and the Link Pad, a savable URL notepad. Drag-and-drop adds a URL, clicking on the saved link opens it in a new tab. This is one of Navigator's new tricks that we love, but wish had more traditional notepad functionality. All Sidebar features have toolbar icons that you can add at will.
Most of the bundled features from version 8 have been removed. IE mode, integrated AOL IM, RSS reader, form filler, and security suite are gone, but the compatibility with Firefox 2 extensions and LinkPad more than make up for the loss. The innovations here might make this more than a backup browser.
Publisher's description
From Netscape Communications :In addition to high-speed browsing and instant-messaging capabilities, Netscape features one-click searching from the address bar; Quick Launch, which reduces the browser start-up time; Click-to-Search, which allows users to select a word within a Web page and search; improved instant messaging, including support for buddy icons, file transfers, and buddy alerts; and tabbed browsing, which allows users to view multiple Web pages in a single browser window.
Version 9.0.0.5 includes unspecified updates.
What's new in this version:
Security Fixes: These security fixes included in Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12 have been included in Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.6; Migration: An add-on has been included in this version to help users migrate to either Flock or Firefox; WeatherBug: The WeatherBug add-on has been removed from this version of Navigator.
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- Average user rating: 3.6 stars out of 350 votes
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Version: Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.6
Pros: Was stable and well made
Cons: Is now no longer maintained and is considered a junk browser as far a security goes it is outdated take Firefox or SeaMonkey instead this browser is seriously dead
Summary: Don't use it it is outdated and has loop wholes in it's security system
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Version: Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.6
"I have always used this browser."
Pros: It never lets me down.
Cons: It looks like In won;t be able to use it much longer.
Summary: It is so stable and deasy to use that I use it all the time.
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Version: Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.6
"really like the colors and style"
Pros: colors, style, ease of use.
Cons: no future updates since AOL won't be providing them
Summary:
doesn't crash like firefox.
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Version: Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.6
Pros: Fast and customizable.
Cons: No longer secure or supported. No more updates.
Summary: Netscape Navigator WAS THE BEST BROWSER EVER. AOL deserves to be flogged with a cat 0' nine tails(ancient,barbaric torture whip; I'll leave out the messy floor details;Jesus was whipped with one; you get the idea) and verbally crucified for stopping... read more >>
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Version: Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.6
Pros: Bug free, clean interface, smooth browsing, fast loading
Cons: Lack of future support, will eventually stop using in a year or so
Summary: Great browser, found it much more bug-free than the ever-unreliable Firefox (though it's based on the same platform) and IE (absolutely terrible for me).
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