Microsoft Advises IE Users to Uninstall Netscape 8

Microsoft’s IEBlog confirms an issue reported on newsgroups and forums that after installing Netscape 8 the XML rendering capabilities of Internet Explorer no longer work. Since installing Netscape 8, I’ve been affected by this issue too. Unfortunately, the only fix currently available for IE users is to completely uninstall NS8:

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.

We currently have the following work around for people that are hitting this issue:
1. Uninstall Netscape 8
2. START->RUN
1. Type: regedit
2. Hit ENTER
3. Navigate to the following:
4. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftInternet ExplorerPluginsExtension
5. Highlight and right-click the node titled "xml" and select delete.
6. Restart Internet Explorer

Unfortunately if Netscape 8 remains installed then the registry key is continually rewritten so this is an essential step if you are to be able to view XML content in IE.

ZDNet - This issue could be another blow to Netscape, which released Netscape 8 only two weeks ago. Just a day after launching Netscape 8 and touting the browser’s security features, the company released an update to fix several serious flaws.