Although NetScape owners (AOL) focus on browsers, some developers are still working hard for upgrading bad Netscape 6 browsers. It is not perfect - there are a lot of vulnerabilities to hide them and have some key features to be ignored. From the preview version released by Netscape, these developers have reached 6.0 to 6.0 should be achieved. But Qiao Wei 鞱 ETSCAPE 6.1 can compete with IE to a certain extent.
Performance test
on the low-end hardware setting (eg, we serve as the IBM ThinkPad 560x, 64MB of the test machine, Pentium-233 MMX), both Netscape 6.1 Preview Release 1 with Internet Explore 5.5 The ratio is still slow. We have not formal testing to the beat version, when our readers complain about 6.0
And 6.01 is when it is a beta version, we think they are right, 6.1 is still can't compete with IE, but its performance can be tolerated, not as bad as before.
Improved user interface
comes in Netscape always build a new user interface for the web, although they don't seem to have successful, from the preview of our opinion, the 6.1 version of the interface is more simplified. Tight and rearranged The toolbar, Netscape releases more screen space to display a web page, which is a browser.
Applications other than Netscape browser, such as Netscape Messenger mail client software, created a new icon on the toolbar on the left of the main window. They are now not dynamic buttons or click on the display icon, now just simply point to applications you need, for example, in Messenger, the icon is a small envelope - we like this feeling very much.
This is an unnecessary interface change: a drop-down emotional expression menu, in general, an emotion is expressed with the face of the text, such as a smile :-), Netscape 6.1 provides you a new one The drop-down menu is inserted into the emotional icon of the image in your Netscape mail. Maybe we are a bit conservative, but we are not sure if the Internet is ready to accept mail full of stupid yellow face.
Still existing vulnerabilities
We hope that Beta's products can be less bug, I hope that Netscape 6.1 can get its own market share, despite this, some bugs in this version make us feel very surprised, because these features in Netscape 6 are originally running Very good.
The first vulnerability occurs in the netscape HTML Editing Tool Composer, when we choose one allows you to download any page from the Web to the composer, no happens - our PC has not collapsed, the web page is not Load.
We also found that there are some problems in the search bar. It is in a small page on the left side of the browser, and Netscape6's 6.1 version allows you to choose search engines for search (although the search engine in its list is less than 6) For example, you use Google, when you type a search keyword in the Tools, your primary browser will jump to Google.com to display search results. The toolbar will show a small number of links, which in theory can let you quickly see the search results through tools. Unfortunately, this feature cannot be used on many search engines, including Google, just working on Netscape its own search engines.
Full of hopeful prospects
Some other new features are not attractive in Netscape 6.1, such as the Winamp player, let you listen to the network broadcast or CD. But a small part of Netscape 4.x is missed in 6 but is missed, such as convenient drag new bookmarks, and set to wallpaper menu, so you can't conveniently make it easy to make the picture on the network. Settings for your wallpaper
