Netscape has posted Netscape 6.2, which offers support for OS X. The changes are not yet available online. [Classic, Carbon]
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for saving me the time of downloading this piece 'o c***. I don't understand why it's so damn hard for Netscape developers to surpass IE5 on the mac...after all it's not even a moving target! It's been ages since M$ updated IE for Mac, yet Netscape continues to suck at a constant rate.
It's kinda purty, tho...
Well, seems Netscape 6.x does not work well when viewing iTool photos using the new slideshow feature Apple provides.
Not sure if this is bad javascript that Apple wrote, or bad javascript processing of Mozilla/Netscape.
Even the installer has bugs! thanks aol
Nothing more...now that Mozilla 0.9.5 is out, Netscape is behind a revision. Visit http://www.mozilla.org. Not to mention you can get AIM separately for free.
I remeber the good ol' days, when there was nothing else I would touch than Netscape.
Things are not going very well in Netscape development lately,
:(
Well I guess I am going to have to disagree with the majority opinion expressed here.
I downloads 6.2 for OS X and it installed without any problems and has been working just fine - speedy rendering, no crashes, etc.. This is on a B&W 400 MHz G3 running OS X v10.1
I then also downloaded it and installed it on a 533 MHz G4 where it is also performing quite nicely. Again no problems with the install or the speed of operation on these platforms.
Frankly, at first blush I kinda like Netscape 6.2 on OS X...
I'm currently evaluating IE 5.1, Netscape 6.2 and OmniWeb 4.05 (and intend to check out other browsers as well) and have to say right now I'm finding 6.2 is giving IE 5.1 a run for its money IMNSHO.
Maybe my experience would be different on different platforms than what I am using but who knows.
BTW, the G4 is a on a 56K dial-up connection while the B&W 400 MHz G3 is on my office LAN connected to the Internet via SDSL.
Also for the record I am absolutely amazed at how well OS X v10.1 performs on this 3 year old hardware! It is definitely suitable to do reall day to day work on.
Netscape is usually a point or so behind the main Mozilla development tree. I have had Mozilla on OSX as my standard browser since 0.9.1 and it has been on the whole very good. It is MUCH faster than IE5 and it's standards support is brilliant. There is one pitfall though, and that is that many sites still have proprietry Javascript in the form of document.all or document.layer which produce, of course, no result in Mozilla. 0.9.4 has been the least stable yet, strangely, but 0.9.5 is good again. 0.9.6 should finally have java support as is listed in the bug tree and 1.0 is just around the corner. These people are good. Thye have produced a browser that works on every single known OS.
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6.2 is a dog
I just downloaded netscape 6.2. This version of netscape is even slower and more cumbersome than 6.1 on OS X. At least on 6.1, you could organize bookmarks in a timely fashion. As near as I can tell, I cannot move multiple bookmarks (like my toolbar b-marks), and only one at a time and REALLY slow. I tried NS 6.1 on OS X.0.4 and it was twice as fast as this new release....I am dying for a full featured browser replacement for IE, but this is not it....oh, omniweb, where are you...we hardly new ye!
Chad