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- Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/NT
- Date added: May 19, 2005
- Total Downloads: 2,398,524
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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.
Netscape 8.0 offers enhanced protection for phishing and other security threats. New features include extended address-bar searching, enhanced tabbed browsing, and improved downloading.
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User reviews of Netscape 8.0.1
- Average user rating: 3.6 stars out of 350 votes
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7 out of 12 people found this review helpful
Version: Netscape 8.0.1
Pros: tabbed browsing, lots of nice features,google search
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12 out of 25 people found this review helpful
Version: Netscape 8.0.1
"Its just FireFox with a Netscape skin."
Pros: Its built off FireFox.
Looks and feels like a Netscape browser.
Cons: Its just FireFox with a Netscape skin. There is no more "Netscape" browser...its just another FireFox version.
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Netscape 8.0.1
"Nice browser but will prefer to work on my opera."
Pros: 1.facilities like mail checking directly without going to the site of your HTTP mail server(gmail,yahoo).
2.greatly customisable eg. news headlines etc.
Cons: 1.Not as fast as opera.
2.Ostentatious but not upto mark,it slows the computer and also takes a longer time to load and start.
3.no in-built feed device.
4.crashes,buggy.
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Netscape 8.0.1
Pros: As i still prefere fire fox, i am amazed at the improvement from beta to final, its not as clutterd, it has faster boot, and pages load good.
Cons: Lack of themes, Splash screen on start.
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Netscape 8.0.1
"Use Firefox, Opera, or Mozilla."
Pros: Some standard features such as tabbed browsing and pop-up blocking, but nothing special. That's why I am giving a average rating.
Cons: The "IE mode" can be useful to view web pages properly, but this could be a prelude to a security flaw. Imagine browsing through a hacker's website and they tag their website for use with IE. Yeah that's real smart. It's best you control your browser instead of the browser doing what it wants to do. I would of been more impressed if they engine that emulated IE, but not quite IE. Netscape uses MS IE and the Gecko. The program is not stable compared to Firefox and Mozilla. Uses more memory and processing CPU. It seems Netscape makers are trying to make the browser like a Gecko version of AOL with features such as weather. These features are not important since I get them as separate program from another third party vendor. Personally I will look for security, stability, speed, and useability, which Mozilla developers are clearly shooting for as well as the Opera developers. I really don't understand the faithful Netscape users. There is clearly better browsers out there. If you like Netscape fine with me. Use it.
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