AOL Releases Delayed Netscape Beta

KingFishKingFish
edited March 2005 in Science & Tech
America Online this week released the first public test version of Netscape 8, a new Web browser with features designed to protect users against online scams and malicious code.
The beta release was originally scheduled for mid-February, but was delayed to fix some last-minute bugs. A preview version of the browser has been available to a select group of testers since late November. The Netscape 8 beta version differs significantly from that preview.

With the release of Netscape 8 beta, AOL is taking aim at Microsoft's dominant Internet Explorer Web browser, which has been the subject of many security vulnerabilities. Also, AOL is looking to piggyback on the popularity of Firefox, the open source Web browser that was released in November and has since been downloaded about 27 million times.

The Netscape 8 browser includes features that are meant to protect users while surfing the Web. For example, the browser adjusts settings based on a list of known malicious Web sites to protect users from phishing scams. Also, trusted Web sites are displayed with fewer restrictions and use the IE rendering engine for maximum compatibility.
How about protecting unsuspecting users of the largest scam of them all, AOL itself? :D -KF

Source: PC World
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