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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 conveniently search; improved instant messaging, including support for Buddy Icons, file transfers, and Buddy Alerts; Tabbed Browsing, allowing users to view multiple Web pages in a single browser window; plus much more.
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"Bring Back Support!!"
Version: Netscape 9.0.0.6
Pros
-Low memory usage, fast startup launch
-faster loads even on slow broadband connections
-gecko engine that makes it more competitiveCons
Not anymore supported :(
Summary
Netscape Navigator will be the hardest competitor of chromium if it is supported until now.
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"A once-great browser, now unsupported and unsafe."
Version: Netscape 9.0.0.6
Pros
-A nice trip down memory lane.
-An important piece of web history
-Still a functional browserCons
-Unsupported
-UnsafeSummary
I wish they still maintained this old browser. They should reboot the project.
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"A trip down memory lane"
Version: Netscape 9.0.0.6
Pros
This was one of my favorites for years
was always stableCons
no longer supported
Summary
I wish they would have kept it up it would have been fun to compare a recent version to firefox
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"None P ram modulus I"
Version: Netscape 9.0.0.6
Pros
Netscape.. its whatsZ?Z for breakfast.
Cons
Netscape doesn't take to long in order forms.
Summary
Basic could be better
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"Netscape was the best browser for years."
Version: Netscape 9.0.0.6
Pros
fast, simple layout
Cons
No longer supported
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"Try SeaMonkey from Mozilla...."
Version: Netscape 9.0.0.6
Pros
Liked the browser NN, always comfortable to use.
Cons
no longer in development, try SeaMonkey instead of NN
Summary
...looks strangely familiar to NN but with latest Mozilla code...try it if you like NN.
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"It's an excellent web browser."
Version: Netscape 9.0.0.6
Pros
It's good to see that it is still available. So Microsoft never totally killed it off.
Cons
I have found no faults with this browser.
Summary
Please continue to download it.
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"Wont Import Bookmarks from File, or FireFox, or from IE"
Version: Netscape 9.0.0.6
Pros
Looks Nice, good appearance.
Cons
Wont import Bookmarks, Might be ok for someone just starting out who has no bookmarks to transfer To new Browser.
Summary
If I cant Use existing bookmarks this browser is not for me.
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"wow..you people really dont know your stuff."
Version: Netscape 9.0.0.6
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Summary
NETSCAPE navigator = firefox...
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"Best Browser of All time.. Bring Back Support!!!"
Version: Netscape 9.0.0.6
Pros
Too many to list here...
Cons
How can you just stop supporting this? People still love it just read the reviews. AOL this is your last chance to do something right... or I am going to use those 1,000,000, minutes you still owe me.
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