Netscape 8? Here it is.
From Yahoo’s First Look: Netscape’s Two-Headed Browser:
Like something out of Dr. Frankenstein’s laboratory, the programmers at Netscape have resurrected a browser that most Internet users had left for dead. At the same time, they have created a two-headed monster of a browser in the new Netscape 8, which lets you choose to view pages as you would either in the Mozilla Foundation’s Firefox version 1.0.3 or in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6.
Is it remotely possible that this could become popular with the average user? Joe Internet Surfer has a hard time distinguishing between “a browser” and “the internet” anyway, so what interest does s/he have in a browser with multiple engines?
Of course, I’ve just read this article, I don’t know how AOL is/isn’t marketing this…
Checking…
Whoa — they are marketing it hard: Visiting netscape.com in FF/PC or IE/6 PC immediately redirects you to this page: Your Current Browser is Outdated
You can bypass it, and they cookie you so yu don’t see it again, but it’s a pretty hard sell. (Stupidly, they don’t seem to be sniffing for Mac users — I just got the message in Safari even though NS8 isn’t available for OS X.)
Let’s install it and see what happens.
More to come.