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Thursday, July 10, 2003

Netscape 7.1 reloaded
I should admit that, after reinstalling my system because of a hard drive failure, I've reloaded Netscape 7.1 and have been using that as my primary browser on Windows of late. Unlike previous Netscape 6.x/7.x versions, 7.1 has feature parity with the latest Mozilla version, the lack of which always bothered me before, and that includes pop-up ad blocking. So the new Netscape is actually pretty sweet, and I certainly like it's icons and throbber better than those of Mozilla or Firebird (though, to be fair, that's hardly a reason to switch). I was even able to download a Google toolbar, which is good, but not as good as the official Google one for IE. Some things I don't like: I can't add the Home button to the main toolbar, as I can in Mozilla, and there really aren't any themes available for this browser, as there are for Mozilla/Firebird.
UPDATE: The Mozilla hack that turns on the home button in the main toolbar does work with Netscape 7.x, but you have to switch themes and then switch back for the icon to display properly. Cool.

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