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Now HP says ditch Netscape

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Internet Explorer isn't the only browser companies are being urged to drop due to ongoing security problems. Hewlett-Packard (HP) is now also recommending users erase America Online's (AOL) Netscape browser from their hard drives due to a hair-raising list of "potential" vulnerabilities allowing denials of service, information leaks, unauthorized access and remote malicious code execution.

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TCO ·
I am assuming they are referring to the old version of Netscape. (Netscape 4.7) They can't mean Netscape 7. I believe Netscape 7 and on is based upon the newest version of Mozilla.

AOL mixed Mozilla and ICQ with AIM. Not the thinnest browser. But not the security problem Microsoft's IE is.

Is there a Netscape 7.1 that runs on HP-UX?
sbergman27 ·
No. It seems to be Linux/Win32/Mac only.

Weird story, though. It almost seems like something thrown out there just to muddy the waters regarding this whole embarrassing IE exploit episode. Now who would want to do that?

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