Microsoft: Netscape 8 breaks IE
eWeek | at | by Mike
America Online on Thursday confirmed that a bug in its new Netscape 8 Web browser was breaking certain XML configurations in Microsoft's IE.
The issue first surfaced on Microsoft's Internet Explorer Weblog, where chief IE developer Dave Massy recommended that users completely uninstall Netscape as a possible workaround.
AOL spokesman Andrew Weinstein insists the bug only affects "a very small percentage of IE users" who visit pages using XML technology.
"We are actively working on a fix, and we hope to deploy an automatic patch to users that will address it next week," Weinstein told Ziff Davis Internet News.