, That all future versions of their browser software would be available free of charge.Īt the same time an open source project was announced, which was the old internal code name of Netscape's Mozilla. In January 1998, announced Netscape Corp. Until October 1998, the release level has been reached 4:08. In version 4.0, fast showed teething, so that Netscape Corp. The Microsoft released Internet Explorer had in fact already built at that time, the implications for the future web technologies.Īlthough Netscape Communicator brought, for example, improved CSS support, but was far from the already former ways. Netscape had great hopes in his suite, but at the same time lagged a little behind. In June 1997, Netscape Communicator published in its final version. Thus, a version that was shipped with the browser part). The project for the Internet suite is continued until today by an independent programmer group called SeaMonkey.Ī name change was necessary in 1996 because Netscape Communications Corporation wanted to distinguish the new version from the old, to express that the Navigator, the browser part, should only be a part of this new complete internet suite.ĭue to the version sequence, " 4.x", again continuity should be expressed, after all, also set Netscape Communicator completely on the old Navigator predecessor versions on (the name "Navigator" incidentally remained for the so-called " stand-alone" browser exist,
With the latest stable version 1.7.13 of the Mozilla suite in April 2006, the Mozilla Foundation has set the official development in favor of the Firefox web browser and email program Thunderbird. The Netscape Communicator, first available in 1996 to the public as a beta, the successor of the Netscape Navigator 3.x, one of the first software packages that a web browser, WYSIWYG HTML editor ( the gold version ) as well as a mail and news wasĪfter the so-called browser war Netscape tried a fresh start, which was made through the acquisition of the company by AOL in November 1998 in question with the Netscape Communicator 4.5 in October 1998.Īfter 1998, when Netscape Corporation, the source code of Netscape Communicator was released, developed on the basis of the Mozilla Application Suite, whose version 1.0 was released on June 5, 2002.