Dear morons at Netscrap(e)....

The BBQ Pit
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My browser is NOT outdated, in fact, it just came out in the last couple of weeks (Safari 2.0), and interrupting my browsing experience to lie to me and attempt to sucker me into downloading your browser will NOT work…

in fact, all it WILL do is make sure i DO NOT download the latest Netscrap(e) browser, so there

why don’t you try HONESTY in advertising for a change (hey, it worked in “Crazy People”, right? :wink: )

“We’ve noticed that you’re not running the latest version of Netscape, the new version has <marketing lingocrap designed to sucker the gullible> and it detects tachyon emissions, tastes great on toast, and is an interesting and terrifying shade of mauve, would you like to give the new Netscape browser a try? it’s free, you like free…”

all my current browser is, is…NOT Netscrap(e), and that’s NO reason to HIJACK (Hi, Jack! ) my browser to attempt to shill your crap

…isn’t it enough that i use Firefox as well?

just when you thought it couldn’t get worse than pop-ups/pop-unders, a new technique occurs, “BrowserJacking”

get a clue, Netscrap(e) and stop annoying potential customers, m’kay?

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Or alternatively, you could replace the first “e” with a “u”.

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It blows my mind that they’re still releasing browsers. Yeah, I know, Mozilla core and all that, but after the astoundingly poorly programmed crap that was version 4, I’m surprised anybody stuck around to try new versions.

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I’m using version 7.2, and, well, what’s not to like? I understand there were some problems between versions 4 and 7, which is why I didn’t upgrade for a long time. But the new version seems to work very well for me. Blocks popups and unwanted cookies, you can delete spam without opening it, you can train it to delete spam automatically… and it’s not Internet Exploder. As I said, what’s not to like?

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This looks new:

It also uses the IE engine as well as Gecko - I’ve already found that it can cope with the drop-down login menu here, which Firefox doesn’t render.

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I tried 8, it’s not bad. One annoying bug though, even though I told it not to open a personal bar link in a new tab, but overwrite, it still sends 'em to a new tab. Otherwise, I think it’s worth a shot.

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Browser-jacking? How does that manifest itself? And how is it that a brand-spanking-new Safari is susceptible? Oy.

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Yeah, I like to hear more about this alleged browser-jacking. You aren’t simply talking about the “pre-mercial” one sees when they go to netscape.com, are you? Calling that a browser-jacking is quite a stretch.

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well, it’s not going to my netscape homepage, it’s instead playing the netscape advert for NS 8.0 (which incidentally is NOT currently available for the Mac), so instead of taking me to my intended homepage, it’s tring to “sell” me a browser that’s not even compatible with my system, it’s showing me a page i didn’t want, that’s “browserjacking”

when i want to go to my default start page, i want to go to that page, not “buyourcrap.com”, my spam/browserjacking criteria are simple, if i didn’t request it, it’s spam/browserjacking, stop bothering me with ads and bugger off!

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I use Netscape 7.2 and have no problems with it. I’m more than willing to try v8.0, but I’m going to wait until it’s out of beta testing.

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That’s an understandable sentiment, but most people consider a browser-jack to be when a home or web page is diverted because of malware or a registry setting being hacked.

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The current release is not a beta version, or isn’t labeled as such anyway. In fact, they’re apparently up to v8.0.1 already. Note though that it’s a Windows-only release. There is no MacOS X version, and I can’t find a promise for one on the website. I don’t know whether that means there won’t be one.

Personally I’m happy enough with OmniWeb and Safari, but I’d be willing to give Netscape 8 a try, for sentimental reasons if nothing else.

Version 4 was actually pretty good in my opinion, and was my primary browser at the time. It was Netscape 6 that stank like a barn in June. Version 7 basically atoned for the sins of version 6, not that many people were paying attention anymore by that point.

I don’t remember now whether there was ever a v5 release. Seems to me they skipped that number.

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I think they skipped it because version 4 had so many intermediate releases. I remember having various 4.xx versions, all the way up to 4.7 or so.

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[Wayne Campbell]
I was not aware of that!
[/WC]

I just downloaded it, and it seems fine to me. The tabbed browsing is a bit different and will take some getting used to, but I like that there’s an X on each tab now so I can close out a window without actually navigating to it. Also, I can have a new tab open each time I open a bookmark, which is neat.

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People should be aware that by default, Netscape 8 is NOT really a Netscape browser – by default it renders sites with the Microsoft IE rendeering engine. For most users, almost all of the time, it’s just a particularly ugly version of Internet Explorer.

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Are you sure about that? Mine defaulted to Mozilla rendering.

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Netscape is annoying people? After it was taken over by AOL?

How likely is that?

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Mine too. (Was there an option to choose the default during setup? I can’t remember)

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I didn’t see an option on install about rending engines.