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1. Comment - Netscape Browser Becomes 'Navigator' Again

   (Jun 6, 2007 - 6:12 AM)

   i love NS8 and i hope it is still being improved. i like the fact you could add RSS feeds as buttons and read the headlines right there in the browser on the button (scrolling or ticking). that saved me plenty of useless "RSS READER" downloads. With NN9, i hate having to *click*click*click* just to see if news has been updated now. i dunno about other people but NS8 worked beautifully for me with each bug/security update. it actually got more stable with time.
   
   the feel of NN9 is too PLAIN too "FireFoxy". the reason i didn't like FF is because it was so light weight you had to download an extention FOR EVERY SINGLE THING! man i don't have the time to browse and keep updating little tweeks and functions that should already BE IN MY BROWSER. Sure FF has an abundance of themes/extentions but themes don't make up for NS8's functionality i mean the SECURITY CENTER, AUTO-FILL options, the WEB EMAIL button that kept all your e-mail accounts, the "site to site" options, the MULTIBAR, the dual engine (which was a god send) etc. i just hope they update NS8's core to FF2 too, making it compatible with the FF extentions also, so the people who LUV the look and functionality of NS8 can download and load little extentions like "add wikipedia to Browser Search engine". or being able to "slide tabs" left or right and place them in a customer order.
   
   I still love the netscape brand though...but NS8 was innovative, seriously. NN9 is more like FF's lil brother...
   and again NN9 is not an update of NS8 but a stand alone, but i hope they make that "stand alone" live up to that name! i mean stand out, be innovate, be refreshing! i remember when NS8 moved the "menu bar" to the right side of the browser and everybody on the web sh!t there pants, and hated it completely just because of that.
   but i loved that because it was taking advantage of "UN-USED/DEAD SPACE". a very innovative "UI" idea. dawg, i left IE cuz i was plain, and FF looked like IE's plain UI (i know it has themes and all) but the basic UI was/is the same! NS8 proclaimed "were're different" with it's release, and challenged what a "standard browser" should/is suppose to look and function like, and that's what impressed me about it.
   NN9's not competing in the browser market by making a carbon copy of FF2. end user will be like "what's the point?"
   
   Overall: NN9 is NOT IMPRESSIVE AT ALL! all the hype of "NN9 being sourced IN-HOUSE" made me expect WAY more NEW CAPABILITIES to BROWSE THE WEB. so far my eye browse didn't even raise a millimeter. and thats not good when it comes to a "DEBUT/MAJOR UPDATE such as this. (it is a beta though)...i and i love NS8.