Netscape Navigator

Netscape Navigator was a web browser developed by Netscape Communications Corporation from 1994 to 2008. Netscape Navigator was the successor to Mosaic, developed by Marc Andreessen in the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign's National Center for Supercomputing Applications, who moved to California in 1994 and met Jim Clark.
==Mosaic Netscape 0.9==
===1994 (pre-release)===
Netscape Navigator was under development as Mosaic Netscape from October to December 1994. The name "Netscape" was coined by Greg Sands.
In November 1994, Mosaic Communications Corporation, Andreessen's and Clark's company which also owned the original Mosaic browser, was renamed to Netscape Communications Corporation, as the NCSA approved the Netscape name more than the original Mosaic name; the Mosaic browser would continue to use its original until its discontinuation in 1997. Mosaic Netscape would subsequently be called Netscape Navigator before its official release.
==Netscape Navigator (first era)/Netscape Communicator (version 4)/Netscape (version 6)==
===1994-2002===
Netscape Navigator would release to the public on December 15, 1994 as Netscape Navigator 1.0.
Netscape Navigator 2.0 was released on September 18, 1995, which included support for JavaScript.
Netscape Navigator 3.0 was released on August 19, 1996, which included support for Apple's QuickTime.
Netscape Navigator 4.0 was released on June 11, 1997. A suite version of the browser called Netscape Communicator would release in tandem with Navigator starting with 4.0, until Navigator 4.x released its last version in 1998. Communicator would release its last version in August 22, 2002.
A Netscape Navigator 5.0 was in development between versions 4.0 and 6.0, but was never finished outside of indev builds.
Netscape 6 was released on November 14, 2000, which removed the "navigator" brand altogether. The browser was now based on Mozilla Suite, which includes various things like a sidebar, integrated search, privacy, and more.
===2002-2005===
Netscape 7 was released on August 29, 2002. It added various features that were implemented in other browsers at this point, including tabs, full screen, and pop-up blockers.
==Netscape Browser==
===2005-2007===
Netscape would remove the numbered version on the branding for the browser with version 8 only, mow simply known as Netscape Browser, with version 8.0 releasing on May 19, 2005. It added features like password auto-fill. Netscape was now based off of Mozilla Firefox, essentially acting as a rebranded version of it.
This is the only version of Netscape browsers not to be developed by Netscape themselves; being developed by AOL.
==Netscape Navigator (second era)==
===2007-2008===
Now being developed in-house once more, the "navigator" brand was reintroduced with version 9. Netscape Navigator 9 would release on October 15, 2007, which included more compatibility with Firefox.
The final version of the 9.x line—version 9.0.0.6—would lose support on March 1, 2008, ending the line of Netscape browsers.
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