Netscape Navigator

(networking, tool, product)/Mozilla/ (Often called just"Netscape") A World-Wide Web browser from Netscape Communications Corporation. The first beta-test versionwas released free to the Internet on 13 October 1994.Netscape evolved from NCSA Mosaic (with which it shares atleast one author) and runs on the X Window System undervarious versions of Unix, on Microsoft Windows and on theApple Macintosh.

It features integrated support for sending electronic mailand reading Usenet news, as well as RSA encryption toallow secure communications for commercial applications suchas exchanging credit card numbers with net retailers. Itprovides multiple simultaneous interruptible text and imageloading; native inline JPEG image display; display andinteraction with documents as they load; multiple independentwindows. Netscape was designed with 14.4 kbps modem links inmind.

You can download Netscape Navigator for evaluation, or forunlimited use in academic or not-for-profit environments. Youcan also pay for it.

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Netscape Navigator

An earlier Web browser for Windows, Macintosh and X Windows from Netscape Communications Corporation that provided secure transmission over the Internet. Soon after its introduction in 1994, Navigator, or just plain "Netscape," as it was commonly called, quickly became the leading browser on the Web. As of Version 6.0, the Navigator name was dropped, and February 1, 2008 was its last update.

Initially a paid product, Netscape was forced to give Navigator away after Microsoft launched its Internet Explorer (IE) browser as a free program. Soon after, Microsoft integrated IE into the Windows 98, and it quickly became the primary Web browser.

Website Ratings and Integrated Toolbars
In 2005, Netscape 8.0 was introduced for Windows with a website rating system that warned users of suspicious sites. For trustworthy sites, it rendered pages using Internet Explorer technology, but for dubious sites, pages were displayed in Gecko, the rendering engine used in Firefox.

Version 8.0 integrated toolbar buttons for weather, movies, stocks and other information, and a Webmail button could be configured to go to the user's Web-based email accounts. It also let family members have their own and settings. See Netscape.

Netscape Navigator

The Navigator Web browser was part of Netscape's Communicator package, which included a variety of additional Internet utilities. (Web page example courtesy of Pyramid Studios, www.artistexpo.com)