Thursday, May 19, 2005

Netscape's Two Headed Browser

The title said it all. Netscape has created two-headed browser (or is it two-headed monster?). Firefox and IE all rolled into one.

Seems to be pretty good idea, combinding the best of both world into one. But does it work? PCWorld has some doubts because Netscape 8 are lacking some of Firefox's important features like pop-ups control.

Even with the ability to reload misbehaving Web pages in either the Firefox or IE engine with a single click, the new Netscape browser feels like a case of subtraction by addition. The features added to Netscape 8 may make it look more like a conventional browser, but it loses Firefox's simplicity (and some of that browser's most useful features) in the process.

-Dennis O'Reilly, PC World

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