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Category: Netscape Blog

  • Netscape 9 Mystery Menu Revealed

    This post originally appeared on the Netscape Blog. Congratulations to Sebastian Moser, who correctly guessed that the new menu in Netscape 9 is “News.” The News menu (and sidebar) will display stories from the channels at Netscape.com, where the popular articles are decided by the site’s members. You can customize which channels are displayed in…

  • Netscape 9: What’s my line?

    This post originally appeared on the Netscape Blog. Rather than just posting a new browser feature or an update on Netscape 9’s development, I thought I’d switch it up this week and have a little contest. Netscape 9 will have a new top-level menu (as in File, Edit, etc.) that does not appear in Firefox…

  • Netscape 9 and Social News

    This post originally appeared on the Netscape Blog. Netscape 9 will include built-in tools to share, vote for, and discuss interesting things you find on the Web directly from the browser’s URL bar. The image below shows the state of the address bar for a page that a) hasn’t been submitted to Netscape.com b) has…

  • Netscape 9 Saves You Time

    This post originally appeared on the Netscape Blog. Ever tried to visit google.cmo? How about irs.gvo? I’m sure that everyone has, at one time or another, made common mistakes like these when typing addresses in the location bar. What normally happens is that you notice your mistake after waiting for the page to load and…

  • Extensions and Netscape 9

    This post originally appeared on the Netscape Blog. It has been established that Netscape 9 will be based on Firefox 2.0. One of the greatest things about Firefox is its community of extension developers – if you want a feature that is not built into the browser, chances are that someone has written an extension…

  • Netscape 9 Target Platforms

    This post originally appeared on the Netscape Blog. After last week’s announcement, many of you inquired about the target platforms for Netscape 9. The previous version of Netscape (8.x) was only available for Windows, but the news that I have to bring this week is that Netscape 9 will be released simultaneously for Windows, Linux,…

  • Netscape 9.0 Teaser

    This post originally appeared on the Netscape Blog. What you are looking at is a draft of the main toolbar of Netscape 9.0, running on Windows XP. Netscape 9 will be a standalone browser, and from this screenshot, you can infer several things: unlike Netscape 8, Netscape 9 will contain more standardized support for newsfeeds…

  • Long Live RSS

    This post originally appeared on the Netscape Blog. Earlier this week, I wrote about our decision to stop hosting the DTD for RSS 0.91 after July 1, 2007. Since then, we have received a torrent of feedback from users in both support and opposition to our plan. Based on this feedback, we have decided to…

  • To DTD or not to DTD

    This post originally appeared on the Netscape Blog. Over the weekend, the tech community noticed that a file crucial to the operation of certain RSS readers was MIA. This file, the DTD for RSS 0.91, had been hosted at my.netscape.com, and its purpose was essentially to explain the structure of RSS 0.91 documents and to…

  • FAS Updated

    This post originally appeared on the Netscape Blog. We’ve updated the Friends’ Activity Sidebar Firefox extension to include the option to be notified of your friends’ votes (in addition to their stories and comments). To use this new feature, install version 1.1 of the extension from Mozilla Addons, and after restarting your browser, open the…

  • The Netscape Digg Tracker

    This post originally appeared on the Netscape Blog. In the spirit of holiday generosity, we give you this: The Netscape Digg Tracker Based on our own Friends’ Activity Sidebar and by using the public Digg API, this extension allows you to monitor your friends’ activities on Digg! Netscape’s Digg Tracker extension helps you keep tabs…

  • Browser Extensions

    This post originally appeared on the Netscape Blog. Today we released two Firefox extensions that hook into Netscape.com: the Sitemail Notifier extension and the Friends’ Activity Sidebar. We hope that these extensions will allow you to get even more value out of Netscape. Both extensions are compatible with Firefox 1.5 through 2.0.0.* as well as…

  • Video Player Revisited

    This post originally appeared on the Netscape Blog. We rolled out two major changes to the Netscape video player today: 1. You can now syndicate videos in a cleaner, more minimalistic video player: As you can see, the title bar is hidden, as are most of the icons on the splash screen. To use this…

  • WTB: Software Engineer, Designer

    This post originally appeared on the Netscape Blog. We’re expanding our team! Software Engineer We’re currently looking for a developer to supplement our browser development team that could also lend a hand with Web development. The ideal candidate will have: 3+ years experience in software development. Strong PHP/MySQL skills Substantial C/C++ skills Strong Javascript, XML,…

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