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The new Netscape 8.0 is getting hit from all sides:

Mozilla Firefox

Ben Goodger has written that Netscape 8.0 is unsafe.

He also talked about the new Google hire Brian Ryner, who is known for his XForms work.

IE

Over at the IE Blog they give you the fix needed to get XML support working again with IE. It seems like Netscape got a bit naughty:

We’ve just confirmed an issue that has started to be reported on newsgroups and forums that after installing Netscape 8 the XML rendering capabilities of Internet Explorer no longer work. That means that if you navigate in IE to an XML file such as an RSS feed http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/rss.xml or an XML file with an XSLT transformation applied then rather than seeing the data you are presented with a blank page.