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For a while Microsoft's Internet Explorer was virtually the only game in town. Then there was Firefox and, with lower numbers, Opera. Now there's Netscape 8.0, a sort of hybrid of Explorer and Firefox, a San Jose Mercury News blog reports. "To protect its users from the several high-profile security vulnerabilities in IE, [Netscape] will by default view sites using the Firefox rendering engine," according to "Good Morning Silicon Valley." "But when it encounters 'trusted' Web sites designed specifically for Internet Explorer, it will switch to the IE rendering engine" for better family PC security and prettier pages, apparently. Then a little editorializing (it is a blog, after all): "That's a neat trick, but really at this point I far prefer the security and elegant simplicity of Firefox to anything even remotely associated with Active X."

Speaking of Firefox, if you use it, make sure you have the latest version 1.0.4 - it's more secure, the BBC reports. And, just for fun, check out these Firefox promo videos.