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7 out of 12 people found this review helpful
5 stars
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
3 stars
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
4 stars
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
4 stars
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
3 stars
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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