Gadgets & Tech – Netscape is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Netscape Navigator 9.0 Beta 1. The release is now available for download for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Very impressed. Many built-in features that enhances the Netscape.com site. Good job!
As a long time Netscape user going back to Netscape Navigator 2.1, I'd just like to say, will the browser team stop trying to suck up to the Firefox and IE users and concentrate on rebuilding the best browser and email programs out there. Not since version 7.2 with the seamless integration between browser and email has this team done anything right. Blame probably and rightfully goes to the fools at AOL.
Yes there are some nice improvements and yes whether Netscape and Mozilla users like it or not the two companies will be forever joined at the hip. There will always be comparisons, because under the hood they are twins.
If Netscape is ever going to regain it's prominence, it has to concentrate on upgrading the email program Messenger and forge a connection between browser and email again. Otherwise I like others will continue to use the 7.2 browser because the 7.2 email program automatically connects to it, duh!
Wow, I thought I must be the only person still using 7.2, but I should've known better if I thought about it. I've been using Netscape since whatever version was out in the Fall of 1995 and have always upgraded reluctantly. But, I've heard nothing good about versions post 7.2
I have tried Firefox. When the web has evolved to the point that NS 7.2 no longer can tolerate, I will switch to Firefox for good, I suppose. MSIE is installed on my system, but only used when an obnoxious website requires it AND it is important to me. If it isn't really that important to me and a rude website won't work properly with NS, I just move along. Forget them.
foggy and nccneon,
Very well put! My thoughts precisely!
I am not surprised that the Netscape navigators and rest of the team are promoting it.
I am extremely concerned about trying ANYTHING in a Beta version. The bugs just keep on biting until it becomes unbearable and you keep shaking your head wondering why you ever got suckered into trying a Beta!
Although I am curious about what Netscape has done in V9.0, I will wait until the final version is out.
In the meanwhile, I will be reading to comments from those who have taken the plunge!
I'm using 7.2 too. When I updated to 7.2 I lost all bookmark, mail folders, and address book. I didn't want to upgrade. It was done automatically. I don't know how but it made me mad. I've used Netscape since 1996 and really hate the so-called upgrades. I don't like Opera and will also probably go to Safari. Firefox isn't too bad. If it wasn't for Netscape's mail program, I'd quit it now. But e-mail is the only thing I like.
The longer I use it the worse it gets.
Slower and slower, many websites when links are clicked on don't come up till you hit the tab and many sites continue running according to the tab which slows it to a crawl.
Pretty messed up.
Yawn!
This might have been exciting news last year, but once again Netscape missed the opportunity.
I love Netscape 7.2 and hope I never have to switch although now and then there are websites that won't work with it. I've tried Netscape 8 but hated it. I like the simplisity of 7.2, the side bar, the personal toolbar, popup stopper, the placing of buttons and all that... I wish they'd stick to a format that works rather than adding so much crap to the browser nothing works right.
I am going to say this, and say it emphatically:
Why does netscape.com load VERY SLOWLY, while other sites load in a split second?
Is the site still in Beta?
Sure feels like it!
Can the whiz kids who developed Netscape V9.0 do something about it? Or is it going to be like the proverbial cobbler's shoes that never get repaired??
Congratulations on the new release; I like Navigator 9 very well so far. One thing I would like to see, however, is a button for getting system mail, and options for automatically logging onto webmail (Yahoo, Google, Netscape, etc.) As glitchy as Netscape 8 was, I always thought the automatic webmail logon was a great concept (which unfortunately ceased to work properly on my computer). Keep up the good work.
So why should a Firefox user switch to Netsape Navigator?
Also, would've been nice to have a utility that imports all of your FF extensions, bookmarks and settings.
I agree about the importing thing; hopefully, that will be an option in the final version.
Some features I like in Navigator are the url correction, the link pad where you can store links for later viewing, the sidebar minibrowser, and, my personal favorite, the ability to resize forms at will.
Of course, many of Netscape's features can probably be added to Firefox through extensions, but it's always nice to have new things that are built into the browser from the get go.
7.2 user and I abide by the one rule: KISS, keep it simple, stupid. Why should I "up-grade" to splitting my work between e-mail client and web browser when I have it all, and more, in one single manageable package, and storage profile - 7.2.
I'll wait until 7.2 is brought up-to-date or it's no longer practical to keep it on my system. Then I'll probably go the Firefox and Thunderbird route.
So, Netscape people, how about a new effort to support all your loyal 7.2 users and friends out here?
Definitely an improvement over 8.1, which wouldn't even render the new Netscape.com homepage properly. (Have to agree that 8.1 had a better skin, however.) Still prefer 7.2 as my all time favorite browser, although it doesn't render the new Netscape.com homepage properly either. Went with SeaMonkey for a brief spell but it doesn't render my My Yahoo page properly. Do hope different skins will become available. Love the 7x theme with the printer button in the upper right. Otherwise, this is very good for a beta. Can't wait for the final release.
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Will have to try this out, anythings better than internet explorer.
You should have been using Firefox by now.
The latest IE (I guess it's Ver.7) is the worse browser I've ever used (it came alrady installed in my new PC)! It crashes 4 out of 5 times I open it. I've switch to Firefox and Opera who are wayyyyyyyyy more stable than that piece of junk. I've already been also using the last version of Netscape that is still better than IE7.0. I will install this latest version and see how it works.
STAY AWAY FROM INTERNET EXPLORER 7.0XXX!!!!