Christopher Finke writes about software, woodworking, and other creative endeavors.

Category: Netscape

  • Netscape 9 Teasers: Week X

    This week’s browser teaser is a big one: we’ve released Netscape 9’s theme (Netstripe) as an add-on for Firefox. “Netstripe is compatible with Firefox 2.0 through Firefox 2.0.0.*. To install the theme, you can either download it from Mozilla Addons or just complete the following steps: 1. If you are running Firefox on Windows, install…

  • Meet your newest Digg friend

    It’s me! Well, at least if you’re signed into Digg, it is. As reported at TheGoogleCache, all you have to do to be added as someone’s friend on Digg is to get them to visit http://digg.com/invitefrom/yourname while they are logged into Digg. Visiting this URL adds you as their friend without requiring any confirmation, and…

  • Netscape now an OpenID consumer

    Netscape’s OpenID support is live. This release also greatly simplifies the signup process by removing the captcha and the request for other information that was previously required for registration.

  • Netscape to support OpenID later this year month

    The announcement just went public that, starting on Monday, Netscape.com and My.Netscape will support signup/signin via OpenID, and consequently, AOL screennames (AOL hosts an OpenID for each registered screenname). I’ve used the OpenID registration/signin process in our QA environment, and it is slick. Kudos to Blaine and Trey on this awesome new feature. P.S. I…

  • Netscape 9 Teasers: Week IX

    My latest Netscape 9 feature update is up: “In Netscape 9, we’ve built upon Firefox’s option to load a bookmark in the sidebar by extending sidebar browsing to all links. In order to properly support this feature, we’ve enhanced the sidebar browser by adding a navigation menu, address bar, and link target toggle.” Check out…

  • Netscape 9 Teasers: Week VIII

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  • RSS Advisory Board

    Now that it’s on the website, it must be official: I’ve joined the RSS Advisory Board as a representative of Netscape. Netscape was the original creator of RSS, which came about in order to allow sites to syndicate content to My.Netscape. Other board members include the lead of Yahoo!’s RSS platform, an executive vice president…

  • My My.Netscape

    Since everybody who’s anybody is doing it, here’s my My Netscape (click image below for full screenshot):

  • Firefox 3 to include URL Fixer?

    Update: URL Fixer was acquired and is now hosted at http://urlfixer.org/ I just found out that Mozilla is considering including the functionality of my URL Fixer extension as part of the base Firefox 3 install. A great idea (if I do say so myself); however, they won’t be the first browser to do so.

  • The Six Million Dollar Homepage

    My.Netscape: a website barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world’s best personalized homepage. My.Netscape will be that homepage. Better than it was before. Better, stronger, faster. Da-na-na-na-na-na-na.

  • Netscape 9 Teasers: Week VI

    This week’s Netscape 9 teaser is up at the Netscape blog; I’ve switched things up by having 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 person to correctly guess the name of the…

  • Netscape 9 Teasers: Week V

    My latest teaser for Netscape 9 is up at 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. […] We feel that having these tools in the browser by default will introduce the idea of social…

  • Life is good

    It’s a Friday, Netscape 9 development is humming along, tonight is Casino Night at my wife’s work, I found and bought a Wii today, and tomorrow is my birthday. Life is good.

  • Netscape 9 Teasers: Week IV

    Update: URL Fixer was acquired and is now hosted at http://urlfixer.org/ I just posted this week’s Netscape 9 update at the Netscape blog: Netscape 9 Saves You Time: “Netscape 9 will be the first major browser to automatically correct common typos entered in the location bar. The browser will watch for nearly 30 different types…

  • Content theft

    I noticed via a pingback to one of my posts that someone is scraping all of my blog posts, publishing them at netscape9.com, and displaying Adsense ads next to them. I don’t know which route I should take first: get their Google Adsense account closed for violating the TOS, contact GoDaddy about the user using…

  • Ahead of the curve

    Business Week reports: “Later this year, Digg will launch a recommendation tool able to expose members to fellow Diggers who appear to have similar interests, says Rose. ‘Digg will be smart enough to know what interests you,’ says Rose. The site will identify those with like interests in part by the previous stories they have…

  • Netscape 9 Teasers: Week III

    This week at the Netscape blog, I wrote about the allowances we’ve made in Netscape 9 for installing extensions targeted at Firefox 2: “Since Netscape 9 will share an architecture with Firefox 2, it is very likely that most Firefox 2 extensions will work in Netscape 9 without modification. This is why Netscape 9 will…

  • Netscape 9 Teasers: Week II

    My latest teaser/progress report for Netscape 9 is available at the Netscape blog. More discussion at UFAQ.org and the Netscape Community message boards.

  • Looking Foxy

    My “Firefox 2 Addons Team” t-shirt finally arrived in the mail! I’ll have to look into getting AOL to spring for shirts that say “I worked on Netscape 9 and all I got was this lousy t-shirt and a great browsing experience.”

  • Netscape 9.0 is coming

    I’ve posted the first in a series of teasers for Netscape 9.0 at the Netscape blog: […] Netscape 9 will be a standalone browser, and from this screenshot, you can infer several things: it will be tightly integrated with the Netscape.com service, as evidenced by the icons for the two available Netscape.com extensions (Friends’ Activity…

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