The newest offering from Netscape is reputed to focus on security. It uses both the Gecko rendering engine from Mozilla/Firefox and the one from Internet Explorer to allow almost every site to render well. I have no idea if this can be made secure enough. Only time will tell and you can be sure the security researchers will be probing for vulnerabilities from now on.
Right now, Netscape 8 is a Windows-only proposition. I've downloaded it and installed it on my Windows 2000 Professional desktop. In what can only be described as a brief trial, I found it performed well enough. As far as I can tell, it is a little bit slower than Firefox on the same machine. Pages rendered well and there were no operational problems to report. I'll be trying it on XP Home and Pro in the next few days.
Jack
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ReplyDeleteJust hours after its official launch, Netscape has published a security update to its new Netscape 8 browser, plugging more than 40 security homes. Netscape 8 is the first major update to the browser in three years, and exploits like these so soon after release does not bode well for the Internet giant. The browser is based on the Mozila Foundation's Firefox 1.0.3 browser, but didn't include any of the recent security updates included in 1.0.4.
I'm guessing more info, eventually,
here Netscape Security Alerts
Its a sad state of affairs that being safe on the internet requires so much work.
--MissM
P.S. apologies for the links not appearing correctly,oops I fixed it :)