Remember Netscape?

[Vlad]

I just saw this article on Slashdot about Netscape. You never hear about them anymore do you? For the longest time I never knew there was Netscape for Linux, but I'm glad to have it back. Seamonkey (the Mozilla suite continued) was ok, but I was growing tired of it. Firefox is pretty good though. Opera = WTF? in my opinion. (although that speed dial thing is nifty.)
But I'm typing this with Netscape 9 on my Linux distro, and I really like it. But here's something interesting, look at my user agent:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5pre) Gecko/20070604 Firefox/2.0.0.4 Navigator/9.0b1Intresting eh? Firefox 2.0.0.4 based, or was it rebranded and given a new UI? Either way, I like it the best.

[barythrin]

Actually Solaris came with Netscape in version 8 on sparc so I was using that once in a blue moon to get browse for packages here and there.

I'm absolutely not sure what their code is based on anymore though. AOL bought them years ago and almost killed it, plus I just use native applications when possible so I rarely install 3rd party browsers except to see if something works correctly in both.

- John

[Vlad]

True. Konqueror is the build in one of me, and it has issues with some sites. Historically I remember using Netscape back when it was in the 2.x version range. It was a pretty good browser until AOL got their hands on it.

[CP/M User]

From an OS/2 point of view I used Netscape v2.0.2? which came out for OS/2 Warp (under v3). It wasn't a bad combination having a 486 DX2-66Mhz processor with 8Mb and was obviously a bit more powerful than the webrowsers which came with OS/2 Warp - can't remember the name! :-(

The only drawback was a 486 was recommended with at least 8Mb of Memory for good results. All the other webrowers which came with OS/2 Warp could run just fine on a 386, though were limited in HTML standards.