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Seven posted 23rd May 2002

Netscape have released a Version 7 preview. Still based on the Gecko rendering engine driving Netscape 6 with a few added features.

While we’re on the subject, for a bit of fun trying downloading on old Navigator from the browser archive at evolt.

joey wrote:

hmm. netscape seems to be getting faster and faster these days.

23 May 2002, 15:21 GMT

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