Comments on: Netscape launches browser beta

Antiphishing browser is designed to resist online fraud, taking aim at IE's growing spate of vulnerabilities.

[yfan]

Buggiest browser ever

I am wondering how they took such a great browsing engine - Firefox - and managed to screw it all up. It crashed three times in my first 5 minutes of use... twice while trying to switch between browsing engines. The Gecko implimentation is so bad Yahoo Mail keeps logging me out. The default engine is IE and I hate it that there is no way to change the default.

I am uninstalling it right now. I'll see if they've matured in their non-beta release.

[Willy Wonker]

Mozilla FF Vs NS 8.0b

NS8 crashes every single time I open it. Firefox only did it once this year. I found tons of adwares flowing into NS8 on this article itself. Dont download this beta it suck.

[System Tyrant]

I have the beta...

and so far so good. I am really liking it too. I haven't had a crash yet. I have been switching back and forth between render engines and trying out all the different features.

Depends on how things go, but at first glance I think I will really like this version of netscape. Of course it's still in beta and I haven't been using it long, but if they make it solid it will become my browser of choice, I think.

I will still keep Firefox handy though.

[BrianM]

Buggiest browser ever

It seems every time AOL or Time Warner get involved with Netscape they screw things up. This thing isn't even ready to be a beta with Windows 98, it opens and just sits there trying to open a Netscape paage but a blank page and this is after importing my start page. I'll stick with Mozilla.

[System Tyrant]

I suppose

I should feel lucky then. I have a Windows XP Pro with SP2 and it has worked fine for me. The only problem I have had with it is when you tell it to open a new tab it opens it in the tab you have open.

I figure Win 98 support isn't high on their priority list. Just for the record though I like the new Netscape browser. In the end it may fall flat on it's face, but they have some very interesting concepts.