Better Safe Than Sorry

Netscape 8.0 released

AOL Time Warner has released the latest (and last version) of the Netscape Browser. Based on the Mozilla Firefox 1.0.3 engine (including the security flaws?) this browser also promises to faithfully render sites that presently only view correctly in Internet Explorer. If this is accomplished using any part of the IE engine (can you say Active X) then this browser is a failed attempt. We'll see.

I would have downloaded and tested it but the licence aggreement indicated I would also have had to download AIM IM Client and AOL's Media Player. See below:



For some reason (Corporate Branding) AOL Time Warner has seen fit to bundle these applications with the browser. I consider both security risks and therefore won't try the browser.