Netscape mail includes a fast new search option, as well as color-coded message labels that you can apply automatically using filters. You can also opt to block pop-up windows by unchecking Open a Link in a New Window, which is hidden in Edit | Preferences | Advanced | Scripts & Plugins. The manager then protects the whole feature with a master password. Netscape 7.0 includes a privacy and password manager, which lets you fine-tune and edit information. You can easily specify your default search engine as Google, Lycos, Netscape, Overture, or. When you right-click on a word on a Web page, a pop-up menu lets you search the Web for other uses of the word. Pages in Netscape 7.0 open at similar or better speeds than they do in IE 6 but not quite as fast as in third-party browser Opera ( With its strict reliance on open Web standards, Netscape 7.0 doesn't display some dynamic HTML drop-down menus and transition effects that display in Internet Explorer or Netscape 4.x, but we couldn't find any major sites that were seriously affected. Not only can you customize My Sidebar using options from Netscape's preselected list, but you can also add your favorite Web sites, so they're always within reach.

A tabbed My Sidebar panel at the left of the browser displays news, weather, bookmarks, a history list, and anything else you choose, and it's far more flexible and customizable than IE's Explorer Bar. You can save any set of tabbed pages as a single bookmark and reopen the whole set with one click. Like Mozilla, Netscape 7.0 has a tabbed interface that lets you open multiple pages at top speed in the same window, without waiting for Windows to build the menu bars and icons required when you open a page in a second browser window. Fortunately, you can turn off the shopping links, bookmarks, and other clutter and turn Netscape into a sleek, fast, friendly browser that may make you consider switching from Microsoft Internet Explorer as your default browsing tool. Just released as a free download, Netscape 7.0 packages the open-source, developer-oriented Mozilla browser into a consumer-friendly package, complete with shopping links, Net2Phone, Web radio, and integrated AIM with an option to display your AIM buddy list in the browser. Best Hosted Endpoint Protection and Security SoftwareĪll but the Netscape name has taken a giant leap forward in Version 7.0.

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