http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/netscape/ en-us Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:07:58 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974985/posts Stony Stevenson writes to point out that Netscape has finally reached end of line with the release of version 9.0.0.6. A pop-up will offer users the choice of switching to Firefox, Flock, or remaining with the dead browser, but no new updates will be released. "Nearly 14 years after the once mighty browser made its first desktop appearance as Mosaic Netscape 0.9, its disappearance comes as little surprise. Although Netscape accounted for more than 80 per cent of the browser market in 1995, the arrival of Microsoft's Internet Explorer in the same year brought stiff competition and surpassed Netscape within... Slashdot http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974985/posts#comment Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:07:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1946433/posts NEW YORK (AP) - Netscape Navigator, the world's first commercial Web browser and the launch pad of the Internet boom, will be pulled off life support Feb. 1 after a 13-year run. Its current caretakers, Time Warner Inc. (TWX)'s AOL, decided to kill further development and technical support to focus on growing the company as an advertising business. Netscape's usage dwindled with Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s entry into the browser business, and Netscape all but faded away following the birth of its open-source cousin, Firefox. "While internal groups within AOL have invested a great deal of time and energy in attempting... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1946433/posts#comment Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:17:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1945463/posts Excerpt - Soon, Netscape Navigator - the first highly successful graphical web browser (yeah, yeah, I know Mosaic came before Netscape, but I don't remember seeing Mosaic floppy-disks bundled with my PC World and Macworld magazines in 1995, at least not under the name "Mosaic") - will be nothing more than a footnote in Internet history. Let's take a moment of silence for the big N. OK, that was long enough. AOL, the parent company of this blog and Netscape, has announced that they will cease support for the current version of Netscape as of February 1, 2008. Netscape, which... tuaw.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1945463/posts#comment Sat, 29 Dec 2007 04:40:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1945417/posts An historic name in software will effectively pass into history in February as AOL discontinues development and active support for the Netscape browser, according to an official blog. AOL will keep delivering security patches for the current version of Netscape until Feb. 1, 2008, after which it will no longer provide active support for any version of the software, according to a Friday entry on The Netscape Blog by Tom Drapeau, lead developer for Netscape.com. The Netscape.com Web site will remain as a general-purpose portal. Netscape was the original mass-market Web browser and helped to popularize the Internet in the... PC World http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1945417/posts#comment Sat, 29 Dec 2007 02:05:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1591132/posts Is there a way to block a website from being accessed via IE version 6 and Netscape version 7.2? Advise. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1591132/posts#comment Mon, 6 Mar 2006 21:09:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1549920/posts CHICAGO, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Fifteen years ago this Christmas week, Tim Berners-Lee, an obscure scientist working in a European laboratory, invented the Internet browser, now a fixture of the digital economy, experts tell United Press International's The Web. Sir Berners-Lee today still lives a simple professor's lifestyle, bicycling around town, as his browser was supplanted by the Mosaic browser developed by a college student, Marc Andreessen at the University of Illinois, a few years later. Andreessen's invention led to the creation of Netscape, the Netscape Navigator and other technologies that enervated to the go-go 1990s run in investment in... UPI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1549920/posts#comment Sat, 31 Dec 2005 21:11:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1531876/posts "Wow, in just one day, Firefox 1.5 has already been downloaded more than 1.5 million times. That smashes our 1.0 first day downloads by half a million," said Dotzler in his blog. "If you haven't downloaded Firefox 1.5, get it while it's hot!" This demand appears to be continuing, according to a blog post from Chris Beard, the vice-president of products at Mozilla. "There are now more than two million people enjoying a better Web experience with Firefox 1.5. Demand continues to be high, greatly exceeding what we saw last year with the release of Firefox 1.0," said Beard. Firefox... ZDnet http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1531876/posts#comment Thu, 1 Dec 2005 13:47:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1418252/posts One evening this spring, Marc Andreessen, the first outsize icon of the Internet era, caught a glimpse of his former life while mingling at the San Francisco launch party for Current, Al Gore's new 24-hour cable station. In 1994, when Andreessen was only 22, he and a high-tech veteran named Jim Clark created the Internet-browser company Netscape Communications. Two years later, there he was on the cover of Time, sitting barefoot on a golden throne, dressed in jeans and a rumpled black polo. The magazine cast him as the king of the ''golden geeks,'' a group that popularized the formerly... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1418252/posts#comment Tue, 7 Jun 2005 18:10:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1412422/posts Microsoft has alerted consumers that Netscape's latest browser appears to break the XML rendering capabilities in Microsoft Internet Explorer. Dave Massy, a senior program manager for IE, warned users in a blog posting that after installing Netscape 8, IE will render XML files as a blank page, including XML files that have an XSLT transformation. Microsoft did not make clear what versions of IE were affected, but a user of the DeveloperDex forum said he experienced the problem on version 6 of IE, which had been patched with Windows Service Pack 2. Microsoft said it is investigating the problem and... Cnet http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1412422/posts#comment Sat, 28 May 2005 21:37:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1406925/posts AOL's Netscape has finally unveiled its long awaited Netscape 8.0 browser in the "gold version" which combines the best of Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer browsers. Its underlying engine is FF but it can automatically switch to an I.E engine when that's necessary on certain websites that are designed to work only with I.E. Its finally here! Netscape.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1406925/posts#comment Fri, 20 May 2005 08:08:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1391698/posts Web analytics company OneStat.com reported Tuesday that Mozilla’s Web browsers, including Firefox, comprise 8.69 percent of the global market for Web browsers. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer dominates with 86.63 percent of the market, but Apple’s own Safari Web browser is in third, with 1.26 percent. Netscape makes up about 1.08 percent of the global market, according to OneStat.com, with Opera trailing the pack with about 1.03 percent. OneStat.com reports that Mozilla browser use has increased 0.24 percent since February, while Microsoft’s Internet Explorer usage has dropped 0.65 percent in the same time . By comparison, Apple Safari usage has increased 0.05... MacCentral http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1391698/posts#comment Wed, 27 Apr 2005 00:25:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1355211/posts America Online's Netscape team has opened its doors to the public, releasing the first beta of the revived Netscape Web browser. Based upon Firefox, Netscape version 8 focuses on security and user privacy, and supports rendering with both Mozilla's Gecko and Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser engines. As reported by BetaNews, AOL originally planned for a February beta, but pushed back the release to March citing the need for more time. The company has been polishing the numerous changes and enhancements that were added since the prototype of Netscape 8 last November. Betanews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1355211/posts#comment Thu, 3 Mar 2005 18:34:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1338881/posts Experts: International domain names may pose threat The new trick is a variation of the 'homograph attack' The new trick is a variation of a known technique called the "homograph attack" and takes advantage of loopholes in the way some popular Web browsers display domain names that use non-English characters. It could allow malicious hackers and online identity-theft groups to trick unsuspecting users into divulging sensitive personal information, according to an advisory from The Shmoo Group, a hacker collective, and from Secunia. snip For example, attackers could register a Web domain "bloomberg.com," which looks identical to the popular business news... Computerworld http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1338881/posts#comment Tue, 8 Feb 2005 22:05:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1337958/posts All non-Microsoft browers include a flaw that allows URL spoofing using Unicode characters, which can be exploited by phishing scams seeking to steal login information for online banking accounts. The spoofing flaw, which is demonstrated on the web site of the Shmoo Group, works in the Firefox, Mozilla and Opera browsers, as well as the Safari browser for Macs. The spoof exploits flaws in how the browsers interpret Unicode characters. A link using Unicode characters to replace the letter "a" in "Paypal" will display as www.paypal.com in the browser, but send users to www.xn--pypal-4ve.com - which then displays "www.paypal.com" in... Netcraft http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1337958/posts#comment Mon, 7 Feb 2005 19:29:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1326297/posts From the beginning of December through mid-January, 4.78 percent of Internet surfers studied by online measurement company WebSideStory used the Mozilla Foundation's FireFox browser, a gain of 0.88 percentage points. At the same time, IE usage declined 0.7 percent to 92.7 percent, the firm reported. WebSideStory said IE use has declined from 96.7 percent since June. Cnet.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1326297/posts#comment Sat, 22 Jan 2005 21:46:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1291343/posts AOL has unveiled a prototype of its revived Netscape Browser, which serves as a test bed for several new features. The new Netscape is based on Firefox, but with a twist - it includes support for switching to Microsoft's IE engine. BetaNews has also learned that Netscape's development was not done in-house by AOL, but rather outsourced to Canadian software firm Mercurial Communications. The Netscape prototype is built upon Mozilla Firefox 0.9.3, which means it utilizes the same user interface toolkit and Gecko browser engine. The browser's theme has been redone to match Netscape's traditional green style and, as expected,... BetaNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1291343/posts#comment Tue, 30 Nov 2004 20:24:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1271041/posts ANOTHER UPDATE: You can see a more complete statement on CNN's homepage -- click the "Netscape responsible for Bush photo insult" link at the top right. But since that's a java box and can't be directly linked, and probably won't be archived anywhere, I'm going to reproduce the full thing in the "extended entry" area below. Hit "read more" to read it. Read More » Text follows: Netscape responsible for Bush photo insult Disparaging image tags used to identify photos of President and Mrs. Bush currently circulating on the Internet were not created, disseminated or posted by CNN at any... CNN via Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1271041/posts#comment Fri, 5 Nov 2004 01:27:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1269986/posts Check out the name of the picture of George and Laura Bush at the top of this page at CNN. Does it give you an "idea" of the slant of CNN? CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1269986/posts#comment Thu, 4 Nov 2004 07:27:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1269897/posts Right click on the picture and look at the file name. Netscape news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1269897/posts#comment Thu, 4 Nov 2004 05:03:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1218406/posts I’m not a Microsoft-basher; I use their products productively virtually every day of my life. Excel is my workhorse, Word my constant companion for nearly a decade, PowerPoint my standard for presentations, Visio Professional a powerful tool in my arsenal, and I rely on Outlook to keep track of notes, emails, contacts, tasks, and my calendar. I have also been using Internet Explorer since about 1996, when it came pre-loaded on a computer I bought. I found it to be adequate, and certainly seemed to be on the cutting edge (anybody remember “push technology”?). But increasingly over time it came... TechTrax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1218406/posts#comment Fri, 17 Sep 2004 02:02:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1181091/posts In the last few minutes, when attempting to access the web via Netscape with Free Republic designated as my home page, it freezes. I changed my homepage to another site and I had no problems. I accessed the internet via Internet Explorer with FR as my homepage and no problem. Is this a Netscape or FR problem? My cache files are cleared and I do not have a problem with other sites. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1181091/posts#comment Thu, 29 Jul 2004 18:59:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1141881/posts I have not been able to get online at www.netscape.com for the past four days. Self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1141881/posts#comment Tue, 25 May 2004 15:44:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1131498/posts I guess this is a dreaded vanity. I just recently downloaded Netscape 7.1 as my browser and am having a problem with Mail. I cannot save a copy of a sent message into my 'sent' folder. I go to the menu selection: Edit -> Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings -> Copies and Folders and in the box When sending messages, automatically: select the check box Place a copy in:, but whatever I select, it salways defaults to the other selection. Even when I deselect the Place a copy in: and select OK it always defaults back. I can, when composing... self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1131498/posts#comment Fri, 7 May 2004 19:03:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/949722/posts In the First Era of browser history Mosaic and the other early browsers ruled. The Second Era was that of Netscape dominance. Microsoft's challenge to Netscape marked the beginning of the Third Era, the Heroic Age of the Browser Wars. Netscape's bleeding to death marked the start of the Fourth Era of Explorer dominance. The recent news about Explorer shows that this Era has come to an end, too. We stand at the beginning of the Fifth Era of browser history. What will it bring? This article gives an overview of recent events and tries to predict what will come.... Evolt.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/949722/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jul 2003 11:41:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/948025/posts The death knell is sounding for the Netscape browser, industry observers said, following America Online's decision Tuesday to lay off about 50 Netscape software developers and end development work on the Mozilla browser technology. "I would not say the patient is dead, but certainly it is more zombie-like. I don't see a new version of the Netscape browser coming out anytime soon," said Jonathan Gaw, research manager at market researcher IDC in Mountain View, California. Geoff Johnston, vice president for StatMarket, a division of San Diego-based Web tracking company WebSideStory, agreed. "It sounds like AOL is really throwing in the... Yahoo! News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/948025/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jul 2003 21:24:29 GMT