Comments on: HP to ship Netscape browser on new PCs

HP and Compaq consumer PCs and notebooks in the U.S. and Canada will come with the browser starting next year.

[NeverFade]

Down with IE

I hate IE. Never liked it ... Netscape was good for me back in the
90s.

Safari is great, but still has a few flaws. Once that gets polished,
Apple should cross platform that bad-boy.

[aabcdefghij987654321]

The Netscape browser of the 90's stank

It is/was so buggy that it made IE look like a paragon of stability and security. The only reason you'd have liked it would be because you didn't know that much about it.

Fortunately the Netscape browser of today bears only the name as a resemblance. Still I prefer Firefox, Netscape as a brand is a turn-off for me.

[NeverFade]

Down with IE

I hate IE. Never liked it ... Netscape was good for me back in the
90s.

Safari is great, but still has a few flaws. Once that gets polished,
Apple should cross platform that bad-boy.

[aabcdefghij987654321]

The Netscape browser of the 90's stank

It is/was so buggy that it made IE look like a paragon of stability and security. The only reason you'd have liked it would be because you didn't know that much about it.

Fortunately the Netscape browser of today bears only the name as a resemblance. Still I prefer Firefox, Netscape as a brand is a turn-off for me.

This might turn people off

My brief experience with Netscape 8 was a screaming horror, for the reason that the preferences of the IE core are not configured at all within Netscape, but have to be configued using the Windows Internet Options dialog. I.e., you have to do all the settings twice. Dual-core browsers may have a future, but not when they're just slapped together like Netscape's.

This might turn people off

My brief experience with Netscape 8 was a screaming horror, for the reason that the preferences of the IE core are not configured at all within Netscape, but have to be configued using the Windows Internet Options dialog. I.e., you have to do all the settings twice. Dual-core browsers may have a future, but not when they're just slapped together like Netscape's.

[Dachi]

Netscape, eww

No thanks.

[Dachi]

Netscape, eww

No thanks.

[ryeharris]

Go with Firefox...

Netscape's new browser is very user-friendy and hands down the best looking. It has great features that no other browser has even come close to exceding. Explorer is way behind the times and their add-on toolbar is annoyingly unsufficeint. Still, I have found Netscape does have a few compatability issues, causing me to stick with Mozilla Firefox!

[ryeharris]

Go with Firefox...

Netscape's new browser is very user-friendy and hands down the best looking. It has great features that no other browser has even come close to exceding. Explorer is way behind the times and their add-on toolbar is annoyingly unsufficeint. Still, I have found Netscape does have a few compatability issues, causing me to stick with Mozilla Firefox!

[ryeharris]

Go with Firefox...

Netscape's new browser is very user-friendly and hands down the best looking. It has great features that no other browser has even come close to exceeding. Explorer is way behind the times and their add-on toolbar is annoyingly insufficient. Still, I have found Netscape does have a few compatibility issues, causing me to stick with Mozilla Firefox!

[rapidfir]

Firefox

when you load firefox, does anything stored in IE get wiped out? like favorites, mail folders, address book, or mail in your inbox.

[ryeharris]

Go with Firefox...

Netscape's new browser is very user-friendly and hands down the best looking. It has great features that no other browser has even come close to exceeding. Explorer is way behind the times and their add-on toolbar is annoyingly insufficient. Still, I have found Netscape does have a few compatibility issues, causing me to stick with Mozilla Firefox!

[rapidfir]

Firefox

when you load firefox, does anything stored in IE get wiped out? like favorites, mail folders, address book, or mail in your inbox.

[PCCRomeo]

This isn't a new thing...

I bought my Compaq PC 3 years ago and it came with Netscape 6 included. My favorite Netscape was 7, 8 is a joke. They should have went with Firefox or Opera instead.

[PCCRomeo]

This isn't a new thing...

I bought my Compaq PC 3 years ago and it came with Netscape 6 included. My favorite Netscape was 7, 8 is a joke. They should have went with Firefox or Opera instead.

[googlesaurus]

Wasted Space

The moment the end user attempts to run Windows Update, Internet Explorer pops up and asks "would you like to make IE your default browser"? User says YES.

Waste of time and drive space for them to bother spooling it onto these systems.

[googlesaurus]

Wasted Space

The moment the end user attempts to run Windows Update, Internet Explorer pops up and asks "would you like to make IE your default browser"? User says YES.

Waste of time and drive space for them to bother spooling it onto these systems.

[googlesaurus]

Wasted Space

The moment the end user attempts to run Windows Update, Internet Explorer pops up and asks "would you like to make IE your default browser"? User says YES.

Waste of time and drive space for them to bother spooling it onto these systems.

[Lynn_S]

Wasted time..

.. making us read your inaccurate/disingenous comment twice.

The Windows update site doesn't make IE pop up and ask to be the default browser.

Result: FUD busted!

What it does do is say that it is checking to see if your computer has the latest version of windows updating software for use with the site and then warns you that it is going to try to run ActiveX controls on your poor unsuspecting system.

When running Netscape 8 after a few minutes it says there is a problem displaying the page. It then advises you to refresh the page or delete your Temporary Internet Files like it used to do back in the early IE 4.x days. Unfortunately the instructions that it gives you for deleting the temp files is for IE, not for Netscape 8.

Refreshing the page runs the same drill again.

Not a very helpful website considering that the OS is desperately in need of patches if you have just installed it.

Or if a[nother] new severe vulnerability has just been announced.

It's good to know in advance that they don't want to help me though. I'll just download the service packs and patches with whatever browser I want off of a server on my network.

When you hear the sound of my voice you will return to full wakefullness. Since this is a text based comment page that will be never...

[Oscar Rat]

IE?

The worse thing to this rat about IE is that you just can't kill the thing. I set browser traps and it just eats the cheese and keeps on coming.

I've tried deleting it, and a minute later its back. I've tried ripping the insides out of the Exe file and it comes right back like new. Its a monster that eat us guys right up.

As far as I'm concerned, IE is the worse browser on the Internet. I use Firefox. Or any other, for that matter. The only time I see IE is when it pops up unwanted ads, by the hundreds.

Just let me start looking at Skunk porno with my Firefox and, BAM, hundreds of ads pop up on the resurrected IE. Jeeze. The only good thing is that the ads are all blank. I can keep IE from accessing the Internet.

Oscar Rat

[Lance_Davis]

hmm

I wonder if HP can change IE to not pop that message up...

[googlesaurus]

Wasted Space

The moment the end user attempts to run Windows Update, Internet Explorer pops up and asks "would you like to make IE your default browser"? User says YES.

Waste of time and drive space for them to bother spooling it onto these systems.

[Lynn_S]

Wasted time..

.. making us read your inaccurate/disingenous comment twice.

The Windows update site doesn't make IE pop up and ask to be the default browser.

Result: FUD busted!

What it does do is say that it is checking to see if your computer has the latest version of windows updating software for use with the site and then warns you that it is going to try to run ActiveX controls on your poor unsuspecting system.

When running Netscape 8 after a few minutes it says there is a problem displaying the page. It then advises you to refresh the page or delete your Temporary Internet Files like it used to do back in the early IE 4.x days. Unfortunately the instructions that it gives you for deleting the temp files is for IE, not for Netscape 8.

Refreshing the page runs the same drill again.

Not a very helpful website considering that the OS is desperately in need of patches if you have just installed it.

Or if a[nother] new severe vulnerability has just been announced.

It's good to know in advance that they don't want to help me though. I'll just download the service packs and patches with whatever browser I want off of a server on my network.

When you hear the sound of my voice you will return to full wakefullness. Since this is a text based comment page that will be never...

[Oscar Rat]

IE?

The worse thing to this rat about IE is that you just can't kill the thing. I set browser traps and it just eats the cheese and keeps on coming.

I've tried deleting it, and a minute later its back. I've tried ripping the insides out of the Exe file and it comes right back like new. Its a monster that eat us guys right up.

As far as I'm concerned, IE is the worse browser on the Internet. I use Firefox. Or any other, for that matter. The only time I see IE is when it pops up unwanted ads, by the hundreds.

Just let me start looking at Skunk porno with my Firefox and, BAM, hundreds of ads pop up on the resurrected IE. Jeeze. The only good thing is that the ads are all blank. I can keep IE from accessing the Internet.

Oscar Rat

[Lance_Davis]

hmm

I wonder if HP can change IE to not pop that message up...

[DarkHawke]

BIG news...IE takes it in the shorts!

At last proof that the whole Microsoft anti-trust suit wasn't a damn waste of time. Before that case, a PC manufacturer wouldn't have DREAMED of doing something like this. And it will take this kind of out-of-the-box configuration option to get folks away from using the gaping security hole that is IE. I too would have preferred they choose Firefox, but Netscape still has something that Firefox lacks: an integrated e-mail client. Yeah, some folks may still choose to run Outlook Express, but for the n00bs, who'll just use whatever the default choices are, they'll not only get a great, secure web browser, but an e-mail client of the same caliber. This is a big win for the neophyte/casual comptuer consumer and, in the fullness of time, everyone who wants a more secure and less hazardous 'Net.

[DarkHawke]

BIG news...IE takes it in the shorts!

At last proof that the whole Microsoft anti-trust suit wasn't a damn waste of time. Before that case, a PC manufacturer wouldn't have DREAMED of doing something like this. And it will take this kind of out-of-the-box configuration option to get folks away from using the gaping security hole that is IE. I too would have preferred they choose Firefox, but Netscape still has something that Firefox lacks: an integrated e-mail client. Yeah, some folks may still choose to run Outlook Express, but for the n00bs, who'll just use whatever the default choices are, they'll not only get a great, secure web browser, but an e-mail client of the same caliber. This is a big win for the neophyte/casual comptuer consumer and, in the fullness of time, everyone who wants a more secure and less hazardous 'Net.

[Mendz]

Opera is now FREE!!!

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[Mendz]

Opera is now FREE!!!

Opera is now FREE!!!