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Category: Netscape Blog

  • Netscape 9 Mystery Menu Revealed

    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 the menu, and since voting is built directly…

  • Netscape 9: What’s my line?

    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 or any previous version of Netscape. The first…

  • Netscape 9 and Social News

    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 been submitted and you haven’t voted for it…

  • Netscape 9 Saves You Time

    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 it fails. That wait is a waste of…

  • Extensions and Netscape 9

    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 to add it. We’ve even released several extensions…

  • Netscape 9 Target Platforms

    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, and Mac OS. Because there’s not much else…

  • Netscape 9.0 Teaser

    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 (a.k.a. Live Bookmarks); it will also have tight…

  • Long Live RSS

    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 host this file indefinitely. We apologize for any…

  • To DTD or not to DTD

    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 provide definitions for a set of character entities…

  • FAS Updated

    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 FAS options dialog via Tools > Add-ons >…

  • The Netscape Digg Tracker

    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 on what stories your Digg friends are submitting,…

  • Browser Extensions

    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 the latest release of Flock. Sitemail Notifier The…

  • Video Player Revisited

    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 player on your site, simply replace the “embed”…

  • WTB: Software Engineer, Designer

    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, and DOM manipulation skills A solid understanding of…

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