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The Rebirth of My.Netscape »
Posted by: tdrapeau 2 years, 10 months agoAt long last, the Netscape team is proud to release a Beta of the next generation My.Netscape, at: http://my.netscape.com. This site will be live tomorrow (Tuesday 3/6). My.Netscape will retain its identity as a personalized homepage, with a minimum of ad clutter. The initial release will in fact have no ads at all! Our programming staff has worked hard to create a framework that allows for scalability and UI elegance.
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Tom Drapeau was until recently the Director of Propeller social news. He now builds other community systems for Aol. He is still a geek. For ...
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evtraut
March 5, 2007, 4:47 p.m.I am so happy! I loved the old Netscape, and now they have a new one! I'll addmit, it did take longer than I thought to up load, but at least it is finally happening! I can't wait to use it and all of its new features! Hope to see it working on the 6th! :)
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coreyspring
March 5, 2007, 5:02 p.m.We've been playing around with it internally and really like it, we hope you do too. There really is hardly any clutter, the entire page is content added and personalized by you.
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Bkumm
March 5, 2007, 5:13 p.m.It's about freakin' time!!!! LOL. Hey, I hope they took the time necessary and got it right. I really liked the MyNetscape home page. All of my stuff right where I wanted it. Sort of like one stop shopping.
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ROGERWISOM45
March 5, 2007, 5:14 p.m.This I Gotta SEE!!!! I'm curious as to what it will be LIKE!!!! Actually my VERY FIRST sight on the web was NETSCAPE!!!!
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TimALoftis
March 5, 2007, 5:25 p.m.I think the Netscape community will like it. Its clean and very much clutter free. Very easy to customize and set up.
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alexrudloff
March 5, 2007, 6:34 p.m.Clean and clutter free.. Oh, and it has block breaker. you heard me... block breaker. Trey is the man.
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coreyspring
March 5, 2007, 7:19 p.m.Questions related to the Netscape browser should be asked on the community page for the browser. The folks there have a lot more experience and an better help you with specific issues.
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BhaktaRajPrabhu
March 5, 2007, 8:21 p.m.Aieee!! The strobe flashes made me feel like I was having an acid flashback from the 60's...or that I was being "programmed" by those pesky Greys. Thanx for sharing your experience, RH; now I know I'm not alone.
Gotta tell ya...I was getting so disgusted with the browser freezing up during this downtime, I downloaded Firefox. Hey whaddya want...I'm a gadget kinda guy! LOL
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1-2-Oscar
March 5, 2007, 8:34 p.m.Perhaps this is the first step in an honest effort to save the Netscape brand from utter oblivion.
I hope so.
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Taganan
March 6, 2007, 1:06 a.m.I liked the old Netscape too. The good thing added was the news postings and comments, but that should not be the Home page, but a page to choose. I HATE having to select which mail service to send e-mails by. If I forget to select @netscape.net it sends it default as AIM mail and people don't recognize the address and delete it. I want to use ONLY netscape.net for sending and receiving e-mail.
I dumped AOL long ago, didn't like it or its price.
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BhaktaRajPrabhu
March 6, 2007, 4:59 a.m.Amen to all of your comments, guys! I LOVED the old Netscape with the cool anchor logo. And what in heaven's name is going on with the email...why is AOL getting into the picture?
I was a longtime Netscaper, 'cause it was refreshing to take a break from Internet Explorer. Now I'm getting the same feeling about Netscape. They "fixed" something that was working fine, and that seems to be a common problem in western civilization: we just can't let a good thing be!
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GLee
March 6, 2007, 7:38 a.m.With all of the problems N'scape has had, I'll wait until after the time change before attempting a look %^)
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Justice4All
March 6, 2007, 9:52 a.m.Nope. Just tried it. It still is not there. Just the same old message about the site being worked on.
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ETproductions
March 6, 2007, 11:31 a.m.Looks good. Signed up for a bunch of interesting feeds. Good work, Netscape team.
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mickeyatray
March 6, 2007, 11:42 a.m.I, like a number of other responders, am a long time Netscape user. I am glad the MyNetscape is back but am sorry to see that it didn't stay a little closer to the old version. I preferred the lay out a little better but will give this new one a chance. My initial response is that I would like it better if the modules had a little more configuration control besides color. I also ran across a small bug in the weather module regarding zip code references which I have already submitted feedback on.
Still gotta say welcome back to MyNetscape and the crew behind it.
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fatpatmurray
March 6, 2007, 11:58 a.m.Is anyone else having touble getting to the old info you had stored on my netscape page. I had a crap load of stocks listed in my portfolio and can't seem to find any of my old info etc. I hate it so far!!
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sfxphil
March 6, 2007, 12:05 p.m.Too little too late, i switched to Safari and use the Apple home page. The old 7.2 browser does not work well with Mac OS 10 hence the reason why the My Home page is all messed up
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cbowers18
March 6, 2007, 12:38 p.m.My Verizon DSL e-mail does not work in My Netscape Beta! I can neither send nor receive. Everything was fine until this morning when Beta appeared. None of my "preferences" settings has changed; plenty of new mail available through the Verizon home page, but it's cumbersome. Suggestions?
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Shadow1
March 6, 2007, 12:42 p.m.Finally having a homepage back is nice, however, I would like to add ZDNET.com as one of my options as it was an original choice under the old "My Netscape."
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