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   Anonymous Coward, Nov 30th, 2004 @ 10:45am

   
   

   that extension is useful for businesses, because most businesses are using web-based software that require active X controls. It's a nice workaround, nothing more.

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   I agree

   

   Jamie, Nov 30th, 2004 @ 9:57pm

   
   

   All day since I have read that silly news.com article I have been trying to figure out why they are hyping the new Netscape. From the pictures it looked as if there was too muc going on, it was like watching Bloomberg or CNN when you just want the news.
   
   I have used the "user agent switcher" extension for firefox without a problem.

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   Jorgen, Dec 1st, 2004 @ 5:02am

   
   

   The IE link is a good idea: I generally use Firefox and once in a while you meet a webpage that demands IE.
   

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   Mike is wrong

   

   Kevin Benson, Dec 1st, 2004 @ 6:01am

   
   

   Mike,
   I must challenge your claim that the Netscape browser beta is just the "View in IE" extension included on top of Firefox. If you right-click a page in the Netscapre browser, you can choose "Display like Internet Explorer" and Netscape renders the page as IE, not opening a separate browser like the extension. It could not do this if it didn't use the IE engine and therefore the cNet article is right on. Your post discredits Techdirt at multiple levels and should be updated or removed.

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   Scott, Dec 1st, 2004 @ 12:58pm

   
   

   Could it be that AOL owns Netscape. The AOL browser is based on the IE engine.

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   Re: Mike is wrong

   

   hp, Dec 1st, 2004 @ 3:36pm

   
   

   Yea, mike you are dead wrong.

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   muhkuh, Dec 2nd, 2004 @ 10:21am

   
   

   no, actually theres a huge difference between ie view, and netscape, ie view just ads a link which allows you to start the page in ie, but netscape opens the page inside of netscape and renders it with ie engine, so its really integrated, nut just a pluggin which starts ie.

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   bigme, Apr 13th, 2005 @ 12:30pm

   
   

   It is cool that it renders in a tab within the current browser. The Firefox extension opens the page in an IE window seperate from your current Firefox session.

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