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Standalone versions for other operating systems such as Unix/Linux were maintained up to version 4.8. A standalone version of Netscape Navigator was still available, but this was discontinued after version 4.08 for Windows. Only one month later, Netscape Communications Corporation was bought by AOL.
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This new version featured various functionality improvements, especially in the Mail/News component, but did not update the browser core (which, in its functionality, was basically identical with version 4.08). In October 1998 version 4.5 of Netscape Communicator was released. The Communicator suite was made up of Netscape Navigator, Netscape Mail and Newsgroups, Netscape Address Book and Netscape Composer (an HTML editor, which later became Mozilla Composer and eventually was split off into a completely separate product, Nvu). The new suite was successful, despite increasing competition from Internet Explorer 4.0 and problems with the outdated browser core. This new version, more or less based on Netscape Navigator 3 Code, updated and added new features (such as support of certain CSS1 elements, minimal dynamic font support and the proprietary object element). released the final version of Netscape Communicator in June 1997. Īfter releasing five preview releases from 1996 to 1997, Netscape Corp. Netscape 4 addressed the problem of Netscape Navigator being used as both the name of the suite and the browser contained within it by renaming the suite to Netscape Communicator. Netscape Communicator (versions 4.0–4.8)
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Netscape Navigator 3 was the undisputed web browser giant in its time with over 90% share, but it was later eroded by the free Internet Explorer included with Windows 95.
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Netscape 3.0 introduced many new features such as new plug-ins, background colors for tables, the archive attribute, and the applet element.
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Version 3.0 was also available in a "Gold" version which featured a WYSIWYG HTML editor (later added to Netscape Communicator as a standard feature), and was sold as retail software for profit. Version 3.0 of Netscape was the first to face any serious competition in the form of Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0, but Netscape held off Microsoft's challenge and remained the number one browser for the time. Around the same time, AOL started bundling their software with Microsoft's Internet Explorer. During this period, both the browser and the suite were known as Netscape Navigator.
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Version 2.0 added a full mail reader called Netscape Mail, thus transforming Netscape from a mere web browser to an Internet suite. Netscape's feature-count and market share continued to grow rapidly after version 1.0 was released. The browser was the most advanced available and was an instant success, becoming market leader while still in beta. The company's name also changed from Mosaic Communications Corporation to Netscape Communications Corporation. The first version of the browser was released in 1994, known as Mosaic and then Mosaic Netscape until a legal challenge from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (makers of NCSA Mosaic, which many of Netscape's founders had spent time developing) which led to the name change to Netscape Navigator. We moved to Safari nearly four years ago (with occasional ongoing Firefox use and some dabbling with Camino, Shiira, Opera, and others for testing and to keep up-to-date).Netscape Navigator was the name of Netscape's web browser from versions 1.0 through 4.8. But, what’s done is done and, really, Navigator’s been unofficially dead for years. Netscape got a really raw deal as Microsoft abused their monopoly position to kill them off by bundling the shiteous Internet Explorer into Windows. MacDailyNews Take: Our first real browser, Netscape Navigator, is a fond memory. Given AOL’s current business focus and the success the Mozilla Foundation has had in developing critically-acclaimed products, we feel it’s the right time to end development of Netscape branded browsers, hand the reins fully to Mozilla and encourage Netscape users to adopt Firefox,” Drapeau writes.
“AOL’s focus on transitioning to an ad-supported web business leaves little room for the size of investment needed to get the Netscape browser to a point many of its fans expect it to be.
Recently, support for the Netscape browser has been limited to a handful of engineers tasked with creating a skinned version of Firefox with a few extensions,” Tom Drapeau, director of AOL’s Netscape Brand, writes on The Netscape Blog. “While internal groups within AOL have invested a great deal of time and energy in attempting to revive Netscape Navigator, these efforts have not been successful in gaining market share from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. AOL will stop supporting Netscape Navigator (all versions) on February 1st, 2008. AOL, which in 1999 acquired Netscape Communications Corporation, has pulled the plug on Netscape Navigator.