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.
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Netscape 8.0
Requires Internet Explorer