Author: Greg

Thanks to Hanni, I found out that the Netscape Browser 8.0 beta has moved along since last summer when it was, by all accounts, an ugly piece of crap…

So, being the curious person I am, I’ve downloaded it and installed it over the old Netscape 7.2, I’ll wait for the Firefox evangelists to burn me at the stake for going near that, and here are my initial thoughts…

It’s still a bit cluttered, but a lot tidier than before… There are a few features I like, like the silly little weather pop-out in the personal toolbar bit, plus having multiple toolbars could come in handy on occasions. The one prolblem I have with it is the Print button located on the far right, you can’t get rid of it… Call me old fashioned, but I don’t like having a big ol’ “PRINT” button on my broswer toolbar, though I do have it on IE, so go figure… The option not to have it would be nice, plus the whole customization option is lacking in places and not very clear at all.

I do, on the other hand, like how the live RSS bookmarking appears in the address bar if a page has RSS feeds, it makes it a bit more noticable than the little icon in the bottom right of Firefox.

The sidebar is also very cluttered as it has everything in one as opposed to individual sidebars for bookmarks, history and what not, it also has AOL IM integration, but not as forced as it was in Netscape 7.2 in which you HAD to sign in to open up the browser. The import of bookmarks from Firefox went pretty easy, though Erika was having problems with it, it also imported the history, just incase you thought I’ve been using this for a while.

The position of the File, Edit, View menu’s is just WRONG! It goes against everything I know to be dear by being right aligned, infact it took me a few minutes to even notice they were there in the first place.

Overall, it’s based on Firefox 1.0 so it’s not as bad as Netscape 7.2 was… Essentially I see it as Firefox with a new theme and a few extra features, one I really like is when a pop-up does open, it open it in a new tab as opposed to a new window, that’s kinda cool, but I won’t be using it as my browser of choice though, there are to many unnesessary bits and bobs… But it’s a huge step forward for Netscape… I’d almost forgotten about them.

Michael Heilemann has posted this and two other high resolution images of Ralph McQuarrie’s Star Wars concept art from the mid 70’s in his Flickr photostream. It’s quite amazing how close the special effect guys got to recreating this painting.

Now to find a suitable printer…

And I’m starting to love this Flickr “Blog This” feature in case you didn’t already guess.

Falcon in Docking Bay

Originally uploaded by Michael Heilemann.

Yahoo celebrated today by giving away coupons for free ice cream at Baskin Robbins, so we took advantage of it… Hey, we’re not going to turn down free ice cream, especially from Baskin Robbins.

So we all got one free scoop, Phil and I got Very Berry Strawberry and Erika got some chocolate, mint & Oreo combination the name of which eludes me.

March 2005 Free Yahoo Ice Cream

Originally uploaded by WebErika.

This is a quick test post from Flickr to see if the “blog this” functionality works.

This is a picture of Erika’s with Phil and Charlie, cute no?

I’m not sure how often I’ll use this, but at least it works, so it’s there as a standby of sorts…

July 2003 Phil & Charlie

Originally uploaded by WebErika.