Netscape Navigator 9 released
AOL officially released Netscape Navigator 9 yesterday. It's based on Firefox 2.0.0.7. It's available for Mac and Linux too. I'm not sure if the Windows version still carry the bloated Internet Explorer also, but the Linux version was a 9 MB download. I downloaded the file and extracted it. It created a folder called Navigator. I used Ubuntu Feisty Fawn.
To run Netscape Navigator, all you have to do is, go to the navigator folder and double click Navigator and run it (Picture below). If you are using GNOME, it might give multiple options when you double click Navigator. Select Run. It'll work.
Alternatively, you can create a launcher as shown below and add it to the menu bar (GNOME). All you have to do is, right click on the top menu bar, select Add Panel, click on Custom Application Launcher and enter as shown in the picture. Browse to the navigator folder and select navigator under the Command option.
The browser started pretty fast. The responses were as good as Firefox.
The following features were added to Netscape Navigator 9:
- The default theme was updated
- Navigator 9 will automatically correct common typos in URLs
- Link Pad - The Link Pad is a new sidebar feature that allows you to save
links/URLs that you want to visit later without cluttering your
bookmarks. I think it might be pretty useful. - Compatible with Firefox 2 extensions
- You can restart Navigator from the file menu, preserving your tabs.
- History is preserved across tabs
- OPML support for bookmarks
- Combined stop/reload button
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