Netscape 8.0 disables Internet Explorer

[Osiris]

Microsoft has confirmed that installing the recenlty launched Netscape 8.0 on on your PC will stop Internet Explorer from displaying XML-files, like blog feeds.

In his blog, David Massy, a senior Microsoft program manager, said that users who install Netscape 8.0 and use IE to visit an XML file or XML file with an XSLT transformation applied, will get a blank page instead of the content they were after.

Microsoft is investigating, but in the meantime has posted a work around that involves removing the troublesome Netscape and fiddling with IEÂ’s registry settings.

 

[tribalsun]

He he, the funniest part is that Netscape 8 requires Internet Explorer just so that it can be installed to begin with.

Netscape 8.0 requires Internet Explorer.

 

[Fafnir]

personally i don't even see the point of installing netscape, especially if it requires internet explorer. There are alot of free and better browsers out there than netscape

 

[EricB]

the only reason it need IE is because some site will only be display properly with IE, no matter what. so when Netscape's engine (same as firefox) won't display a page, it automatically switches to the IE rendering engine.

this is a safer appoach than using IE by itself as those small sites for the most part are not malicous. it also beat firefox as FF can't display those pages.

 

[ZeroX]

i still see netscape 8 as a total flop.

it's funny that microsoft is calling there software junk. must feel funny for microsoft to say that

stick with firefox and opera i say.