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Netscape Navigator is a discontinued proprietary web browser, and the original browser of the Netscape line, from versions 1 to 4.08, and 9.x. It was the flagship product of the Netscape Communications Corporation and was the dominant web browser in terms of usage share in the 1990s, but by around 2003 its user base had all but disappeared. [2]
Netscape Navigator was the name of Netscape's web browser from versions 1.0 through 4.8. 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 ...
Netscape Navigator 9.0. Netscape Navigator 9's features were said to include newsfeed support and become more integrated with the Propeller Internet portal, [66] alongside more enhanced methods of discussion, submission and voting on web pages. [67] It also sees the browser return to multi-platform support across Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. [68]
Netscape Navigator 4.51. In 1996, Netscape's share of the browser market reached 86% (with Internet Explorer approaching 10%); but then Microsoft began integrating its browser with its operating system and bundling deals with OEMs. Within 4 years of its release IE had 75% of the browser market and by 1999 it had 99% of the market. [39]
Mosaic's popularity as a separate browser began to decrease after the 1994 release of Netscape Navigator, the relevance of which was noted in The HTML Sourcebook: The Complete Guide to HTML: "Netscape Communications has designed an all-new WWW browser Netscape, that has significant enhancements over the original Mosaic program." [19]: 332
Browsers are compiled to run on certain operating systems, without emulation.. This list is not exhaustive, but rather reflects the most common OSes today (e.g. Netscape Navigator was also developed for OS/2 at a time when macOS 10 did not exist) but does not include the growing appliance segment (for example, the Opera web browser has gained a leading role for use in mobile phones ...
Netscape Navigator was the most widely used web browser and Microsoft had licensed Mosaic to create Internet Explorer 1.0, [10] [11] which had released with Microsoft Windows 95 Plus! on August 24, 1995. [12] Unlike Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer 1.0 was available to all Windows users free of charge, including commercial companies. [13]
2000 Lynx Netscape Opera IE Mac IE Mozilla; Jan Feb Mar 5.0† [1] Apr 2.8.3 May Jun 4.0 Jul 5.5 Aug 5.6 Sep Oct Nov 6.0 Dec 5.0 0.6 2001 Lynx Netscape Opera