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Tag: netscape 9

  • Netstripe: Netscape 9’s Theme for Firefox

    This post originally appeared on the Netscape Blog. Netscape 9 is on its way, but to tide you over until it gets here, we’re releasing Netscape 9’s theme (called Netstripe) as a separate add-on for Firefox. Here are some previews of the great work done by our designer, Andy Fraley. (You can install the theme…

  • Netscape 9’s Sidebar Browser

    This post originally appeared on the Netscape Blog. In Netscape 9, we’ve built upon Firefox’s option to load a bookmark in the sidebar by extending sidebar browsing to all links. (Right click on any link and choose “Open Link in Sidebar;” you can also drag and drop a link onto the sidebar if it is…

  • Netscape 9’s Revolutionary Feature

    This post originally appeared on the Netscape Blog. What is the biggest feature lacked by Web browsers today? Security? No. Advanced privacy settings? Not even close. Full-size 24×24 activity indicators? Absolutely. For Netscape 9, we’ve brought back the big throbber from days of old and stuck it right on the end of the toolbar –…

  • 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…

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