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Netscape 8.0 Requires Internet Explorer

Tuesday, May 24th, 2005 - Eric-tile Dysfunction
When Netscape 8.0 came out a few days ago, I decided to read about its improvements. Well, I was sure as hell surprised when I saw that it gives you the option of rendering "trusted" pages (as to how it determines what to trust, I have no clue) with the Internet Explorer rendering engine.

It didn’t take long before this gave me an idea however. I decided to install Netscape on a copy of Windows that did not have IE installed. From there I would see how Netscape ran. As you can tell from this screenshot, I did this with 98lite.

Interestingly enough, it turns out that you must have Internet Explorer before you can even install Netscape 8.0!

This makes me wonder just how integrated the two are. Depending upon the way in which they've implemented the IE rendering engine, they may have opened Netscape up to a whole slew of vulnerabilities.