Netscape Navigator 9.0 beta 1 released

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.]

62 Comments

  1. @ MadMac, Invite this man over for an interview so that you know what she is getting into, the last thing you want is picking up some M$ virus that could require you to Ctrl+Alt+Delete your life.

    Give him a cup of fresh warm Camels Milk, make sure he drinks it.

    He will fart the Dallas theme tune causing your Mrs. to run for her wife!!!

  2. @MadMac,
    You’ve got BALLS! Hope it all works out for the best!

    @Camel Milk Drinker
    I suppose your advice is tried and tested? ” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”tongue laugh” style=”border:0;” /> And where do the heck you get Camel’s milk?

    MW: nature, as in its human nature to be curious…

  3. @MadMac

    You deserve to have your testicles removed. You are not a man!

    By the way, can I cum all over your wife’s face after making harcore anal sex with here?

    I love when people talk about this like if it was a beautiful thing to let a couple play around with other people… that’s not love, that’s just sperm, sweaty balls, anal sex, breast stroking and such.

    Geeee I can only imagine him kissing the wife goodnight and smelling her cum breath.

  4. Navigator was the first browser I ever used, which is why I downloaded it for old times’ sake. There is just one web site I need to access that isn’t available to me on Safari, Camino, Firefox or Mac IE. I usually have to access it via VirtualPC.

    However, the new version of Navigator opened this once inaccessible site without any problems. It is therefore a valuable browser for those minority sites that don’t work for Macintosh.

  5. What’s the point of it? Wax nostalgic all you want, but that was then and this is now.

    Its main purpose probably is as a tax writeoff.

    I won’t bother downloading it to find out, but if it won’t accept Mozilla’s extensions, particularly one or the other variiations of Adblock, it would be no better than IE.

    And if it does accept Firefox’s extensions, why would I care, anyway? I’m going to waste my time duplicating my Firefox setup?

    Consider the question rhetorical.

  6. Boy, this got off subject real quick.

    I believe in a Christian based marriage. I love my wife, and my wife loves me. I am not here to cast stones. People make their own decisions, and must deal with it. So, good luck to you and your wife.

  7. @MadMac: Dude, I agree with SydneyStephen. Kick her right out for even asking such a thing. Marriage is marriage, remember those vows? You’re either in or you’re not. The horror is not somehow reduced by her asking. She clearly isn’t committed, and you’re clearly not okay with it, and pretending to be okay with it does not make you a man! Just my opinion, but grow a set before it’s too late! I certainly hope you were just joking around!

    Er, about the article though. Netscape is still around? I had no idea.

  8. navigator did ‘feel’ like a mac application as opposed to IE. I used naviagator while studying graphic design back in 1996. gees has it been that long!!
    cant remember what we had on campus but they could have been quadras. pretty damn slow, mind due they probably had very little ram in them by todays standards. them were the days of Quark Express, Illustrator, and Photoshop. thats all you needed to know back then. ahhhhh memories.

  9. Madmac, when my wife gets some drinks, she start asking me if I like another lady. I say yes and she says: see I know it and goes beserk. When I say no, she goes beserk as well saying: I know you like but you don’t want to admit…
    Now how to solve that?
    Agree with most people here, unless you tell her she’s allowed to do that, she should never ask for herself or leave the house and find what she likes.
    MW: Three…lol, three-some troublesome…

  10. Hmmmmm, My Netscape Navigator went out with another browser one time and got a terrific virus.
    After having to look at better browsers that worked better, I ended up leaving navigator and using FireFox, well, most of the time. But sometimes I run back and embrace my old browser, er . . . just for the fun of it. ” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”grin” style=”border:0;” />
    I guess you could say that I am a multi-browser type of buy. I know my browser has other users and I am, . . . mostly . . . OK with that. But sometimes it wants to crash a lot and then I feel used!!!

    I guess that is the price of having someone else’s browser, even if its great when its new, they all get old and tired after a while. Just becareful of using IE. Its full of viruses. LOL

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  11. Taking a break in the action here, folks – it appears that the MadMac comments are just slightly ahead of those actually related to the topic at hand.

    So, will it be a photo finish? Will those wishing to wax nostalgic for Netscape emerge victorious? Or will MadMac’s completely off-the-wall and socially polarizing comment manage to totally and uttery hijack this thread?

    Stay tuned to find out… ” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”wink” style=”border:0;” />

  12. My aplogies guys are was bored stiff with MDN crap and didn’t know what to do to spice up my date. I’m 19 I don’t even have a girlfriend and after hearing your comments not sure if I’ll ever get married, sorry to rattle your cage people

  13. Yup!! I do 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.www.destinol.com

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