Netscape Navigator 9.0b1 has been released and is available as a standalone installation for Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows.
Note that the automatic update feature in your current Netscape browser will not upgrade to 9.0. Please download the new version now for the newest updates.
Navigator 9 Features:
• Social Integration: Share and vote for webpages that you find interesting. Add friends and get their favorite stories in your sidebar.
• News in the Browser: Follow the latest news directly from your browser. Customize your News menu to only show your favorite sections.
• URL correction: Let Navigator fix common typing mistakes in URLs.
• Link Pad: Save interesting links for later without cluttering your bookmarks.
More info and download link here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dennis C.” for the heads up.]
Who the fsck cares? Does anyone really use Netscape anymore?
Camino 1.5 was just released today. A light, fast browser without all this social disease stuff.
God that brings back memories.
Whatever happened with that company? Did Aol destroy them?
My earliest memories of the internet a filled with netscape. With the internet boom, its a amazing how fast this Co. vanished.
It isnt much beta than Safari if any.
I am feeling nostalgic tonight. I care about Netscape because it’s one of my first browsers (aside from Mosaic).
Perhaps I’m just feeling this way because I just had a conversation with my wife and gave her permission to have s e x with another guy. I’m feeling pretty wired right now. Hope it works out/ Kinda like, if you love them, set them free.
Quite a confessional for the MacDailyNews crowd, dontcha think?
MadMac,
Please tell me your joking. That is messed up.
Madmac.. I suggest you cut loose from this website for a few months…
Wow. The last time I used Netscape was in 2001, just before I ditched my Windows machine and switched to Mac. It was already a bloated piece of crap back then…
love you guys. I’ll see you on the other side.
MW = “care”, how do they do that???
Still trying to think of a clever [lame] way to tie this in to some obscure [and likely very poor] joke about that car company selling their brand name SUV to some software engineers and being perplexed why no one wants to drive it anymore…
Oh, well, it’s late.
MadMac – gotta agree – that was way beyond messed up. Run, don’t walk, and get some help. Please.
@Ed
Netscape is now from Mozilla – the same folks that made FireFox and Camino, as well as a bunch of other software.
Three different browsers, three different architectures, three different design philosophies.
FireFox – universal, for Mac, Linux, Windows
Camino – mac only, and better for it
Netscape – still bloated after all these years
Take your pick.
How many mozilla variants do we need?
Madmac – yup that’s messed up.
Interesting things today with the new Netscape beta and Marc Andreesen switching to Mac. You may hate Netscape, or you may not think that it matters, but Netscape was the next big thing before MS illegally used their monopoly status to crush Netscape. Navigator was a great browser before they bloated it out. It was far superior to IE. Unfortunately, as MS has done so often, they crushed a good company. It ended up as part of AOL, RIP…
My first internet browsing was using the text-based Lynx. My first web page was built in 1992, back when we built them using text editors with straight HTML, well before animations, plugins, Java, style sheets, etc. Netscape Navigator was a dream app back then – it amazed people! I had used Mosaic (also built mostly by Andreesen) and Netscape was far superior to that!
Ahh, those were the days! I may need to download the beta version just for nostalgic reasons!
Link Pad sounds very useful though
MadMac
You are Ok, you are over 40 ( mosaic gave you away) and sure enough to let her test the marriage I do hope there are no kids inlvolved, they don’t take well to that. All the best
I used the bundled Netscape, as a Newbie, on my first generation iMac (333hz.) I was advised to rid my machine of the addtionally bundled Explorer. It was explained that I should search out every last vestige of Explorer and trash it as soon as possible. I dutifully did so, and strangely enough my random freezes pretty much stopped.
Those were the days of dial-up and OS8.6. . . . After I got a digital camera, and saw what Photoshop could do, my machine had gracefully aged but was now severely obsolete.
About the time that Jaguar came along, I plunked down the money and got a Twin 1.25 G4 with a full gig of RAM. This was at an early Apple Store. The sales guy thought I was some kind of hero or something.
By the specs you can see that almost five years afterwards this remains as a formidable machine. Oh yeah, and I got a screen that remained the highest rated in the industry for nearly three years, the 23 inch Cinema Display.
Now, for the price I paid for the screen alone, I could get a Macbook and a 24 inch iMac. . . . But man, I’ve had a first-rate computer and screen for five years. . . . Wow!
But now I see an upgraded Leopard Mini in my future. I can use the G4 for backup, and I won’t have to listen to the jet engines (fans) anymore.
MadMac,
Hope you won’t mind me voicing my opinion, but I wouldn’t have taken the passive route. Sometimes a firm stance is enough to cause a change of heart. Maybe that’s what she needed… I’m not pointing fingers; just hope my words will help.
Wish you all the best.
msr…
I care. I’m the one person in the world who still uses Netscape. I mean it’s just FireFox anyway, right? I feel honored the company went to all the trouble to upgrade my browser. What happened to version 8 I’ve been waiting for.
i remember mosaic and i’m no where near 40, i’m 34, and i remember when it transitioned to netscape.
Giving your wife permission to have s.e.x with another guy. What are you, stupid? Have you lost your balls COMPLETELY????
Spines aren’t just for books.
I had not heard that Mozilla got Netscape. I thought AOL still had it and was continuing to destroy it. If I separate the bad stuff AOL injected into it, I still like it and use it on occasion. Maybe this new version will fix some of the things that needed fixing though.
MadMac’s relationship with his wife may in fact be healthier than most: many couples have affairs on the sly, whereas at least MadMac and his wife are being completely open with eachother about it. And many people have affairs because of the temptation of the ‘forbidden fruit’; if you just let them go, they will often gain a new apprecviation for you (because of the freedom you give them) and come back to you. And if she doesn’t come back, then it probably wasn’t working out anyway.
Still, I’m sure this isn’t what we came to a mac forum to read!
MadMac doesn’t own his wife nor does he own her will you dipstik, all spouses are free individuals. The fact that they discussed it at all and he might have said “I hope I’m here when you are done” shows a lot of self respect and balls, So what do you think that intimidating someone into staying leads to a healthy relationship…sssssshh dreamer.
@Madmac
Well your news is certainly more interesting than a new release of Netscape. Wow. Marriage is not a “pick and choose” arrangement, however. Does your wife still expect the social prestige of being married; the joint financial support; the emotional support etc? And how does she propose to support you emotionally in your disarray and discomfort as she desports herself with the men of her choosing?
Yes, by all means set her free. Set her free right out the door.
And change the locks.
mw=former (as in wife)