May 17, 2005

Netscape 8 To Be Released On Thursday

You heard it here first. Apparently it's quite different to the beta, because several features which weren't ready then are now.

My informant tells me: "tell anyone you like, as long as it doesn't end up on blakeross.com."

Posted by gerv at May 17, 2005 06:48 PM
Comments

Who releases software right before star wars?

Posted by: Axord at May 17, 2005 07:14 PM

The ones that have nothing to loose ?

:-)

Posted by: jhermans at May 17, 2005 07:18 PM

The ones who lost the Episodes I and II ;-)

Posted by: funtomas at May 17, 2005 08:04 PM

Yes, blog criticism is _so_ pesky. It lets people talk about our product, even if they don't like it!!!

Posted by: Blake at May 17, 2005 08:27 PM

Blake's undressing of NS8 in his blog has been, and will shortly be very important. If NS have *still* not fixed these most basic of issues highlighted then... No wait, let me rephrase that - If NS *do* fix these most basic of issues, it'll be a miracle!

Posted by: Kroc Camen at May 17, 2005 08:52 PM

For reference: Blake's What's wrong with Netscape 8.

Posted by: Ross Shannon at May 17, 2005 09:38 PM

bwahaha

Posted by: Daniel Glazman at May 18, 2005 08:11 AM

Where are the Mac and Linux versions of NS 8? Will they be released as well??

Posted by: JuggerNaut at May 18, 2005 03:36 PM

Oh yes, dreaming of Netscape 8.0 for Mac and Linux.
I always wanted an easy way to switch between Gecko and IE-Engine on Linux ... oh, wait a minute ... ;-)

Posted by: Christoph at May 18, 2005 04:26 PM

I'm starting to seriously doubt whether Netscape's development tree is even going to extend to Mac and POSIX. Netscape already exists at version 8.0.2 for windows. i think we should all send emails to netscape in rapid succession- the resulting DoS will give them time to think long and hard about how worthwhile it is to lose the mac and POSIX markets.

Posted by: Horst BURKHARDT at July 1, 2005 01:07 PM