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James Aylard

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Netscape has released Preview Release version 3 of its long-awaited Netscape 6 browser. Having just installed it and given it a quick once-over, I have a few preliminary observations:
  • The most obvious change from PR2 is the updated skin or "theme". The old "Modern" theme -- which produced a chorus of howls for its excess plainness -- is out. Netscape now sports a more three-dimensional, blue-chrome design.
  • PR3 is based on the Mozilla Milestone 18 nightly build from 29 September, rather than the latest formally released M17 build.
  • As with PR2, PR3 offers an interesting selection of language choices, only moreso: German, French, and Japanese versions of English, and both Japanese and US versions of Japanese. Since there was no English English,US English, or UK English from which to choose, I settled on the German English, and so far it seems pretty Englisch to me.
  • The image-swap problems of M17 seem to have been fixed, although occassional artifacts do mar some rollovers
  • The Sun Java plug-in, though installed, doesn't seem to be working
  • Interestingly, the CSS :hover pseudo-class is broken -- a feature that has worked reasonably well for several Mozilla builds
  • The annoying and standards-defiant practice of displaying the <table> "summary" attribute as a tool-tip has been eliminated.

All-in-all, Netscape 6 PR3 appears to be a somewhat more stable browser than PR2, although a number of rough edges still remain.

Links to the full downloads of PR3:

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Submitted by djc on October 4, 2000 - 15:57.

Couple things I noticed as well about the new release:
  • The Netscape Messenger component is *much* better, faster, and stable. Its 99% usable now.
  • The new chrome is kinda cool. Its definently more streamlined.. Almost futuristic..
  • Kinda cool how the little folders in the Bookmarks menu change when you mouse over them..
  • Much more stable. Faster too.
Its a step in the right direction, hopefully those rough edges can get sanded down before final relase.. Oh, and if the Netscape FTP site is slow for you, the full installs are in our browser archive:
Windows
Mac
Linux

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Submitted by erika on October 5, 2000 - 22:16.

What, for goodness sakes, is "German English"???? Is it English with quotation marks inside of other punctuation? With Commas in funny places? Is is Englisch mit an accent? Are the nouns capitalized? Is it Pennsylvania Dutch? Klarify, please?

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