A decade with Netscape. I’ve been wavering between IE, Opera and Mozilla over the last few months, and have come a full circle. IE: Default browser. Works with BCG’s intranet. Opera: Great offline browsing. Fast downloading. Tabbed browsing. Mouse gestures. Mozilla: Powerful plugins. IE: A9 toolbar. Fantastic way of searching. IE again: Google desktop. Solves all offline browsing problems I had.
Netscape 7.01 is out. Preview release, mind. No, I haven’t tested it yet. Awaiting reviews. (24 May: No reason to switch)
Will OggVorbis beat MP3 Pro? Will Netscape 6.1 beat IE 5.5? Will OpenBSD 2.9 overtake Linux? Unlikely. But should be interesting to watch.
I shifted from Netscape Navigator to Internet Explorer because I could cut and paste tables from IE to Excel. But now that I’ve downloaded Opera 5.11, used its zoom function, it’s gesture keys, and so on, I’m moving over to Opera. Long live Opera! (Which, given Netscape’s fate, is perhaps no more than a fond hope.)
Cool Site of the Day: another way to learn about interesting sites. Google recommends Netscape’s new and cool, USA Today hot sites, The Internet Tourbus, and the Glassdog.
The latest browser stats say that 69% of the world uses, Internet Explorer, while only 27% use Netscape. BrowserWatch says 57%-26%. Netscape 6 might do something about it, given that Microsoft’s split.