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Netscape 6 Preview

Netscape 6 Preview — Netscape Communications has released a preview version of Netscape 6, its forthcoming Internet application suite based in part on the open source Mozilla project – though we recommend it only for the most adventurous of Web users. Netscape 6 permits access to multiple email accounts (including AOL accounts) and boasts a customizable sidebar plus much-improved support for Internet standards like Cascading Style Sheets and XML. Netscape 6 doesn’t resemble a Macintosh application – that could change with time – and demonstrates the results of Netscape’s acquisition by AOL with near-frantic integration of specialized content and services. The Netscape 6 preview requires Mac OS 8.5 or better with at least a 200 MHz 604 processor; be prepared to allocate at least 25 MB of RAM to the behemoth. The active installer is less than 200K, while a standalone installer is about 10.6 MB. You might also check out recent discussions in TidBITS Talk of Netscape 6 and Mozilla 5. [GD]

<http://www.netscape.com/download/ previewrelease.html>

<ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape6/english/6 _PR1/mac/macos8.5/sea/>

<http://www.mozilla.org/>

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