New Netscape Browser - Yawn.
I hear there is a new and exciting Netscape browser out - I don't care.
After AOL bought Netscape and essentially abandoned the browser, the game was over. It's still over. Netscape had quite a few horrible buggy and close to unusable releases. They slowly lost their user base. I know - I may have been their last user!
I switched to Internet Explorer for a while - but it's too big a target for hackers as it's used so widely (and has quite a few security holes regularly popping up as well). Now I'm with Firefox and happy. Yes, it has security issues too, but since it's much more of a niche browser, it doesn't have a target painted on it's back.
Netscape has a new browser? I'd be more interested in watching reruns of the news, or maybe the Gong Show in Japanese.
Netscape used to have a great browser, I used to be thin, and my father was once young. Netscape is not news. Now a Google browser, that would be news! And a reasonable step in their road to world domination :)
After AOL bought Netscape and essentially abandoned the browser, the game was over. It's still over. Netscape had quite a few horrible buggy and close to unusable releases. They slowly lost their user base. I know - I may have been their last user!
I switched to Internet Explorer for a while - but it's too big a target for hackers as it's used so widely (and has quite a few security holes regularly popping up as well). Now I'm with Firefox and happy. Yes, it has security issues too, but since it's much more of a niche browser, it doesn't have a target painted on it's back.
Netscape has a new browser? I'd be more interested in watching reruns of the news, or maybe the Gong Show in Japanese.
Netscape used to have a great browser, I used to be thin, and my father was once young. Netscape is not news. Now a Google browser, that would be news! And a reasonable step in their road to world domination :)
posted by Ted Demopoulos at 12:09 AM
Comments on "New Netscape Browser - Yawn."
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Nervous Rodent said ... (Monday, October 17, 2005 3:36:00 AM) :
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Ted Demopoulos said ... (Monday, October 17, 2005 6:50:00 AM) :
post a commentFirefox is hardly a niche browser. My web logs, and from what I've heard others match this, so Firefox and IE in a near-tie at about 45% market penetration each.
Firefox hasn't seen quite as many security holes as IE, but it has a few. All browsers have them, but the more popular the browser the more often people find them.
Personally, I use Opera, which I don't consider a niche browser, but the also-ran third-place entry on the list. If you really want a niche browser, there are a couple like Safari...
Nervous One,
No, not a niche browser, but far less popular than IE. I called it "more of a niche browser" - none of my corporate clients use it for example.
My server stats show it far less popular than Internet Explorer, although gaining popularity.
I'm happy with it!