Information Research Weblog

Netscape has beaten MSoft to the punch by releasing its new browser, Netscape 8.0. Still officially in beta, it looks a pretty polished product, with features that are now becoming expected - tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, better security, etc. etc. Plus the ability to add RSS feeds It has a pretty slick looking appearance and, although developed in partnership with Mercurial Communications, obviously owes something to Firefox. In particular, when you click on Themes and Extensions in the Tools menu, you find yourself presented with the pages from Mozilla.org