With Two You Get Netscape?

So here’s AOL’s latest and greatest plan to get back on track with the browser wars - The next version of Netscape will let you browse using either a Gecko or Internet Explorer engine. And you can switch back and forth between the two. Gecko, of course, is the basis for Mozilla, FireFox, and older Netscape versions. AOL spun off the Mozilla Foundation as a non-profit last year and it’s produced FireFox. (There are brilliant people in the back office at AOL!) The new version is based on FireFox 0.9.3 –and was done by Mercurial Communications in Canada, not inhouse. Huh?

The bottom line, of course, is that you get FireFox, which is currently popular, as well as the browsing capability of Internet Exploder, without, says AOL, the vunerabilities of IE, for those sites that are hard wired to work only with IE. Talk about Schitzoid! And it will probably catch on like WildFire.