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License:
Free
- Editor's Rating:
- Average User Rating:
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Downloads:
2,482,208
- Operating Systems:
Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 98
- Additional Requirements:
Pentium 233MHz Processor;64MB RAM;50MB HDD space
- Limitations:
No limitations
- Date Added:
February 20, 2008
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Publisher's description of Netscape Navigator
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.
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Editor's review of Netscape Navigator
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- "Navigate your life"
- Version reviewed: Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.6
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.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 3.6 stars out of 344 votes
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Version: Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.6
Pros: I always download Navigator on my computers because it works better than any others. Everything is so nice about it. It just works better on my downloads and my e-mail accounts. Hardly ever have a problem with it.
Cons: None that I can think of.
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Version: Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.6
Pros: a long time navigator fan, it does it all well
Cons: may be my comp, but firefox crashed regularly after installing nav. Also some plgins not available
Summary: a good browser, but i can't use it (see cons).
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Version: Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.6
"Old? Netscape is a nice browser and very good program"
Pros: I like this browser cause itīs safe, stable and the transfer download tax is faster than IE 8
Cons: Nothing. is a good experience
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Version: Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.6
"I find a trojan virus after downloading the file"
Pros: don't download the file
Cons: don't download the file
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Version: Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.6
Pros: It WAS a nice browser.
Cons: No longer supported. No more security or programming updates as of 2008.
Summary: Netscape WAS a good browser, and it's fun to download and use a little for nostalgic reasons, but it's long gone. Use Firefox. Firefox was the successor as Netscape developers contributed to the birth of Mozilla. So long Netscape.
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