Netscape Releases Netscape Version 6 Final

Netscape announced this morning (3:01AM Pacific!) the release of the final version of Netscape 6. While I'd love to download a browser that's more stable than NS 4.76 (though I admit NS 4.76 doesn't crash nearly as much as NS 4.72), Netscape is offering a lot of stuff I don't want, like Instant Messaging and E-Mail.

Still, in the interest of Progress, I'll probably download it and take a look. I hope it's not long before the final version of the new Mozilla is available ( http://www.mozilla.org ).

By the way, if you're technically involved with Web development, you may have heard about David Flanagan's article on Netscape 6 and its failure to comply with open standards. You can read David's original article of 6 November at http://www.oreilly.com/ news/flanagan_1100.html . A bazillion responses later, he posted an update at http://www.oreilly.com /news/flanagan2_1100.html .

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