According to The Inquirer's
AOL: New Mozilla-based Netscape 7.x coming shocker
There might be a new Netscape 7.x (behind 7.1) based on new Mozilla.
From the article,
引言回覆:
After the Save Netscape online petition reached two thousand signatures, I sent my original article and petition URL to a few AOL execs, the kind of folks that "should care" - and people who I now think should remain nameless for protection from any possible Volish dirty tricks. Frankly, I didn't expect much.
Finally, last week, I almost fell off my chair when I received an official reply:
"I am writing you in response to your e-mail to [exec name here]. The next (Netscape Browser) version will be a "point" release based on the latest Mozilla code."
The message continued saying that this version "will be made available in the very early summer timeframe". For the record: this came straight from AOL's Corporate Communications department.
Now Netscape 7.1 users can rejoice in anticipation. And this is proof for those once skeptic readers who told me "why bother?" that there's some truth in a local [Ed: doesn't it exist up there??] saying which goes "don't complain (now), if you never complain". It's a rare event in this galaxy, and it doesn't happen too often... but sometimes, just sometimes, corporations do listen.
I now have my fingers crossed, hoping that AOL delivers Netscape 7.2 - or whatever they want to call it - as promised.
Let keep our fingers crossed!
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