[gden]

I wonder if you people can tell me when Netscape 8 will be coming out for the Macintosh?
Greg

[d00d]

Probably never. A good portion of Netscape 8 is its ability to use Windows APIs to selectively use Internet Explorer rendering, which isn't available on Mac OS X.

[mdawson]

Having used Netscape 8 on the PCs in my lab I would suggest you avoid it even if a Mac version did surface. Netscape made great strides when version 7.x came out, but version 8 is a bear. It could take several minutes for Netscape to launch at the beginning of the day. Often after hitting a link Netscape looks like it is searching for the site, but the software is not communicating with the network based on the network activity monitor in the system tray. The more tabs I have open in the browser, the worse the communication issue gets. Netscape 8 also crashes more often than Netscape 7.x by several orders of magnitude. In fact, if I have to restart Netscape 8 less than 3 times in a workday, it was a good day.
As for viewing PDF documents through the browser, forget it. When the PDF plug-in activates it literally takes several minutes for the document to be loaded regardless of the documents size. Netscape intermittently goes between Running and Not Responding when I check the softwares status in the Task Manager and when, or rather if, the page finally loads I find myself staring at a blank white screeneverything inside of the browser window (e.g., toolbar, status bar, etc.) disappears; it is literally a blank window.
I notified Netscape of the issue with version 8.0.0 and four revisions later, the problem has not been fixed. As d00d mentioned, Netscape 8 uses a number of Windows APIs to mimic that relic Internet Explorer and it has obviously caused Netscape to implode. We use FireFox in our lab now. FireFox is what the University recommends and supports anyway.

[d0csp33d]

I prefer Safari.