can't believe it, Netscape 7.01 comes with pop up blockin??!

betz · Post by **betz** » November 26th, 2002, 9:15 am

ok, I downloaded 7.01 and suddendly there was this icon at the bottom right, clicked on it and the pop up blocker opened! Whats next, hell freezes? Bill gates gives me all his money?
Great move, netscape!

michel v · Post by **michel v** » November 26th, 2002, 9:51 am

CNN reports active volcanos have been seen spewing ice today!

bim · Post by **bim** » November 26th, 2002, 9:59 am

Seems obvious since AOL stopped selling pop-ups themself. I assume you still can't block normall ads?

Sander · Post by **Sander** » November 26th, 2002, 10:52 am

This is the download manager as was present around 1.2beta? (Don't know if it made a return in the trunk yet as I'm sticking with the 1.2 branch for now - that is, until I can't stand waiting for bayesian filters anymore.)
If so why are you surprised about that? I think from reading the various bugs on its implementation it was pretty clear Netscape was pushing that manager and wanted it for N7; major shame this came after the release of Netscape 7 of course - now they're going to have to do a lot of marketing to get reviewers to notice this change. (I wonder what excuse CNet and the like will now use to still rate it with a 7...)
Makes it a hell of a lot easier for me to convince people to use a Mozilla-based browser though (beyond the geek-crowd which I'm recommending Mozilla itself to anyway).

bim · Post by **bim** » November 26th, 2002, 11:32 am

Sander wrote:This is the download manager as was present around 1.2beta?

Euhm, I think you'll notice this topic is about pop-up blocking, not the download manager. Or am I missing something?

ishopnude_com · Post by **ishopnude_com** » November 26th, 2002, 11:44 am

Where is 7.01?

mesostinky · Post by **mesostinky** » November 26th, 2002, 11:45 am

Is this the 7.01PR or did you get ahold of 7.01 final?

axl · Post by **axl** » November 26th, 2002, 12:00 pm

Netscape 7.01 Setup

after installation About Page says
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01

Post by **Alex Bishop** » November 26th, 2002, 12:05 pm

ishopnude_com wrote:Where is 7.01?

Netscape 7.01 is not out yet. Anyone who claims to be using it is probably imagining things. They may think that they're using 7.01 but they're really just using whatever Netscape chooses to test their FTP servers with.

fruitcake · Post by **fruitcake** » November 26th, 2002, 12:47 pm

A Netscape 7 with built-in pop-up blocking already exists: 'Netscape 7.0 compact'.

see: http://www.hmetzger.de/net7comp.html

Hendikins · Post by **Hendikins** » November 26th, 2002, 8:51 pm

I don't think of it as 7.01 Final, but I did get the build.

It does indeed include popup ad killing by default.

Also of note, the Linux full installer didn't include Java.

betz · Post by **betz** » November 27th, 2002, 1:25 am

Alex Bishop wrote:
ishopnude_com wrote:Where is 7.01?

Netscape 7.01 is not out yet. Anyone who claims to be using it is probably imagining things. They may think that they're using 7.01 but they're really just using whatever Netscape chooses to test their FTP servers with.

well, I know it may not be the final version netscape releases, but I am surely not imaging things when the about screen tells me I am using 7.01...

staunovo · Post by **staunovo** » November 27th, 2002, 1:49 am

I wanted to download the setup.exe file (http://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape7/e ... SSetup.exe) but I receive the following message:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /pub/netscape7/english/7.01/windows/win32/NSSetup.exe on this server.

Why? Have the guy of Netscape blocked the server?

AJUK · Post by **AJUK** » November 27th, 2002, 2:41 am

WTF I didnt even know netscape 7.01 was out
PARTY

Hendikins · Post by **Hendikins** » November 27th, 2002, 3:35 am

It's not out, and the links have been made inaccessible - which is what they were supposed to be in the first place.

can't believe it, Netscape 7.01 comes with pop up blockin??!

can't believe it, Netscape 7.01 comes with pop up blockin??!

No permission to download the file