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Arcanetrance

(2,670 posts) Sat Jan 25, 2014, 02:31 PM Jan 2014

I have a really odd question does Netscape still exist

I saw this thing about the 90s and it made me think of using Netscape on my computer. So I was curious what happened to it

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I have a really odd question does Netscape still exist (Original Post) Arcanetrance Jan 2014 OP

It lives on in FireFox and Seamonkey. Gidney N Cloyd Jan 2014 #1

And Yahoo shut down Alta Vista last July as well. dipsydoodle Jan 2014 #2

Google it Boom Sound 416 Jan 2014 #3

Yes, it does. blogslut Jan 2014 #4

Gidney N Cloyd

(19,847 posts)

1. It lives on in FireFox and Seamonkey.

Reply to Arcanetrance (Original post)

Sat Jan 25, 2014, 02:38 PM

Jan 2014

dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)

2. And Yahoo shut down Alta Vista last July as well.

Reply to Gidney N Cloyd (Reply #1)

Sat Jan 25, 2014, 02:54 PM

Jan 2014

Last edited Sat Jan 25, 2014, 03:39 PM - Edit history (1)

That's Yahoo Yahoo : not Benjamin Netty Yahoo.

Boom Sound 416

(4,185 posts)

3. Google it

Reply to Arcanetrance (Original post)

Sat Jan 25, 2014, 03:45 PM

Jan 2014

Oh wait. I whiffed

blogslut

(38,016 posts)

4. Yes, it does.

Reply to Arcanetrance (Original post)

Sat Jan 25, 2014, 04:05 PM

Jan 2014

Netscape is the company and it still exists as a email/homepage portal. Netscape Navigator was the browser.

AOL bought Netscape in 1998, with the provision that Netscape developers would be allowed to continue as a nonprofit research division. That division is Mozilla and from Mozilla came new browser software (initially named Phoenix) called Firefox.

The last official release of the Netscape Navigator browser was in 2007. You can find downloads of it here:

http://www.oldversion.com/windows/netscape/

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