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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: November 22, 2006
- Total Downloads: 2,398,524
- Downloads last week: 4,657
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 349 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 8.1.2 makes updates to the anti-spyware protection, dynamic security center, profile manager, and enhanced RSS support features.
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User reviews of Netscape 8.1.2
- Average user rating: 3.6 stars out of 349 votes
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24 out of 38 people found this review helpful
Version: Netscape 8.1.2
Pros: Netscape has been an alternative browser for a longtime.Good security, has a security center and antispyware protection.Interface looks cool.Has some Firefox features.
Cons: Can become confusing at times.Tabbed browsing on Netscape is plain.Not many programs support this browser.Use Firefox or Opera.
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77 out of 136 people found this review helpful
Version: Netscape 8.1.2
"Whats all the complaining about?"
Pros: The browser works good. It's no faster or slower than IE 7 or Firefox. It has one great feature, easy navagation. Opens multiple tabbs at one time with one click. Only Opera 9.2 does that as easy as Netscape. It has yet to crash on me once and has a cool new skin. So, it sets up with the tools on the right instead of the left, no big deal at all. More people should have an open mind and not be so damn set in there ways. I did not download the browser here, but at Netscapes homepage. Oh. did I forget the free security and that it's based on the Firefox engine? Recommended but get it from Netscape and give the darn thing a fair chance.
Cons: Psging is slower than Slim Browser! LOL! Whos isn't?
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7 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Version: Netscape 8.1.2
"Good popup controls, switch between IE and Firefox"
Pros: - Pop up controls are better than IE7 and Firefox 2.0 (are on the tabs).
- Menus have more options and you can control almost everything in your browser.
- Security options are very good.
- You don't need to download add ons, like fire-fox
Cons: - Sometimes crash.
- The engines of IE and Firefox are out of date.
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6 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Version: Netscape 8.1.2
Pros: Netscape is a enhanced Firefox. It looks great, you can customize it, and it's not a IE.
I enjoyed really the Security Center.
Cons: Netscape likes to use RAM memory.
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3 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Version: Netscape 8.1.2
"Firefox ,Opera And Internet Explorer Are Better..."
Pros: Its a decent browser but could be better. has a security center but not much power in it
Cons: It has jerks and if you use a anti-virus like
zone alarm with anti virus (witch i have) it shouts at you in netscape security center spyware protection not available the same with identity theft and could have a better skin libary
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