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Moreover, AOL maintains the Netscape website as an Internet portal. AOL allows downloading of archived versions of the Netscape Navigator web browser family. Netscape’s Mozilla Suite also served as the base for a browser-only spinoff called Mozilla Firefox and Netscape versions 6 through 9.ĪOL formally stopped development of Netscape Navigator on December 28, 2007, but continued supporting the web browser with security updates until March 1, 2008, when AOL canceled technical support.
#Netscape navigator 1994 code#
Netscape Communicator’s 4.x source code was the base for the Netscape-developed Mozilla Application Suite, which was later renamed SeaMonkey. The Netscape Navigator web browser was succeeded by Netscape Communicator. The decision came too late for Netscape however, as Internet Explorer had by then become the dominant web browser in Windows. The business demise of Netscape was a central premise of Microsoft’s antitrust trial, wherein the Court ruled that Microsoft Corporation’s bundling of Internet Explorer with the Windows operating system was a monopolistic and illegal business practice. This was primarily due to the increased usage of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser software, and partly because the Netscape Corporation (later purchased by AOL) did not sustain Netscape Navigator’s technical innovation after the late 1990s.
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It was the flagship product of the Netscape Communications Corporation and the dominant web browser in terms of usage share, although by 2002 its usage had almost disappeared. Netscape Navigator was a proprietary web browser that was popular in the 1990s.
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15 December 1994 (Netscape Navigator 1.0)