Netscape 7.0 not worth it...

I just downloaded Netscape 7.0 and it is the same exact thing as 6.0 but with a few additions, It installs AOL icons on your desktop and ads AOL to the trusted zone in IE properties.... Seconds after I uninstalled Netscape I take a look at my firewall logs (BlackICE Pro) and see about 20 lines of this

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Time, Event, Intruder, Count
05/23/2002 17:09:35, HTTP GET data contains script, ads.web.aol.com, 6
05/23/2002 17:09:35, HTTP GET data contains script, ads.web.aol.com, 4
05/23/2002 17:09:24, HTTP GET data contains script, ads.web.aol.com, 1
05/23/2002 17:09:24, HTTP GET data contains script, ads.web.aol.com, 4

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It turns out that AOL was trying to send me the .exe file to put itself into my trusted neighborhood and on my desktop..... Interesting....

HAHAHAHAHA. What a pile of crap. Nerdscape taking the big dive. I love it.

Now you too can have unstable-nasty-slow-web-browser-spyware installed on your system.


Thanks for the official review..

You might want to try reposting this into the Product Reviews forum.

I never did like netscape.... Netscape has always been a pile of junk...


System_0verload

Ever since netscape 4.0 netscape has gone down the shiter.

Mosic replaced by netscape
netscape replaced by IE
IE replaced by ????

It's spelled N-e-t-s-c-a-p-e but it's pronounced Nut-Scrape.

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Originally posted here by cwk9
Ever since netscape 4.0 netscape has gone down the shiter.

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4.x??!? Think I even still have some 3.x boxes... ROFLMAO.

But yeah, you're right... I haven't gone past 4.7x myself.

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IE replaced by ????

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Lynx

lol @ draziw..... *Nut-Scrape* Thanks for that I needed a good laugh...


System_0verload

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Originally posted here by draziw





4.x??!? Think I even still have some 3.x boxes... ROFLMAO.



But yeah, you're right... I haven't gone past 4.7x myself.







Lynx

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IMHO the bad people at Netscape got it right with 4.7. After that the browser became a huge memory hog, slow to launch, slow to browse with a lot of extra features that just aren't needed. The word "bloatware" comes to mind......

NetScrape sux.... and im sorry to say this but so does Mozilla, i get pissed cus there are NO decent browsers for Linux, sure IE might have a few flaws but when it comes to compatibility its the BEST, i would think out of all the open source programs out there they would make a decent linux browser that worked well and was compatible with EVERYTHING that IE is compatible to.

Op-per-a! Op-per-a! :D

REAL computer users don't mind banners when the service is worth it.

Opera rocks. No doubt. I'm just not likin' the banners too much. Might actually buy the thing one of these days.:thumbsup:

I love Galeon. The tabbed interface is killer and the skins and spinners are wicked. You can make it look like IE, Netscape, Mozilla, Konquerer, or your own look. It has lots of great functions and supports all the Netscape plugins and so on. I tend to use it most. But I also have Opera, Mozilla and a couple of others. It's good to have a few to see what a web page that you are building performs and looks like in different ones. Onlong the lines of the old saying. Browsers are like opinions and as&**holes, Everybody has one............<grin>

I do have to agree on the new Netscape though. AOL has the doo doo touch when it gets its hands on anything. It turns to poopie....................

Well, You beat me to it P2P. I just put Galeon on my box, and I think I'm going to like it. I like the pop-up and advertising blocking features. Plus, it seems quick enough; at least on my box. I also like the option where you can create a tool bar with your favorite search engines and other stuff on it. Actually, I think Mozilla is good. I think the cookie blocking features are really convenient.

Well, IE sucks... it helps poor web designers design crappy, non-w3c compliant pages. At one point I seem to remember Netscape starting to "enforce" proper code... about that time all the "best viewed with Internet Exploder" seemed to pop up everywhere. M$ once again catering to the level of convenience/kidiot... but Apple proved long ago that by doing so your user base becomes loyal (though I think the real point there is that Apple also QA'd things well enough that, in similiar situation, you wouldn't even be allowed to write non-compliant code... then again, you probably wouldn't have been allowed to do anything but point and click at it in the first place).

Galeon rules! I run it and always have like 7 tabs up at once.!

LOL!