

The browser even includes a link to both Firefox and Flock. However I felt it all looked a little cluttered, especially when you can open pages in multiple tabs instead.Įnding support for Netscape essentially means this version will slowly turn into a museum piece. It essentially shows websites in simple text, in case there's some pages you just want to browse through quickly.

The mini browser, on the other hand, seems a bit out of place.

I found this quite useful for things I didn't really wanted to bookmark but still wanted to store somewhere. To configure Netscape for email, please follow. I quite like the link pad, which lets you drag and drop any link in the sidebar. The following article explains how to download mail from your account using Netscape Communicator. Two features that Netscape offers that you won't find in Firefox though are the link pad and mini browser. Netscape also has a number of similar security features like master password and SSL and TLS encryption. It also gave Download Manager a meaningful upgrade, and added support for Site Icons that appear in the URL field and alongside bookmarks.In terms of performance, you can also expect identical speed and memory usage as Firefox. For example, Netscape has restored the Print Preview feature, dropped from Netscape 6.x. The Netscape 7.0 preview release improves what felt like unfinished work with the Netscape 6.x browser. Highlights of the new features include Tabbed Browsing e-mail management tools and which hooks into AOL's Spinner online music division. SetNetscapeMailPreferences() will let you change your Netscapes mail. Businessman linked to Texas AG Ken Paxtons impeachment charged with lying to get 172M in loans. Netscape expects to ship the final version this summer, says Catherine Corre, Netscape communications director. Since the version 0.07 the possibility of reading mail archives in the format Netscape Messenger and Netscape Collabra is added. But download Netscape 7.0 Preview Release 1 at your own risk, recognizing there are reasons it's still in beta testing. A cursory review of the beta version of Netscape 7.0 running on the Windows XP operating system was stable compared to prerelease versions of Netscape 6.x. division has ratcheted its software with some nifty new features and even some copycat Internet Explorer tricks. The browser-building AOL Time Warner Inc. It was founded under the name Mosaic Communications Corporation on April 4, 1994, the brainchild of Jim Clark who had recruited Marc Andreessen as co-founder and Kleiner Perkins as investors. Opening this week is "Browser Wars: Episode 7." Like a sequel lumbering into the cineplex, Netscape Communications Corp.'s latest preview of its Netscape 7.0 browser will battle with Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer. Netscape was the first company to attempt to capitalize on the emerging World Wide Web.
