Netscape 7.2 (based on Mozilla 1.7.2) could be upgraded with an unofficial language pack based on Mozilla language packs. The last version officially available in German was Netscape 7.1, which was based on Mozilla 1.4. The last German version for the Macintosh platform was Netscape 7.02 for Mac OS 9. Since then, there has also been the modified Netscape Compact variant, which allows user-specific changes to be made easily.

The newer versions of the Netscape Navigator from version 6.0 are therefore based on the code of the Mozilla project and are an integral part of ' Netscape Communicator '. Netscape was therefore often only inadequately or practically not able to display websites optimized for Internet Explorer.įrom the start of the Mozilla project to the discontinuation of Netscapeįor versions after 4.x, Netscape placed the program code of its browser under an open source license in 1998 and founded the Mozilla Foundation to coordinate further development. Microsoft proceeded analogously with JavaScript, which Microsoft expanded as JScript with its own code that Netscape, unlike Internet Explorer, could not interpret. Netscape therefore also had display difficulties with Microsoft's Java. At that time Microsoft also relied on a self-developed runtime environment for Java applications that was not fully compatible with Sun's Java plug-in. The processing of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in particular often caused problems for Netscape in these versions. In addition, the further development was only continued hesitantly from the end of 1998, which contributed to the fact that the browser steadily lost market share. By the end of 2002, Netscape Navigator no longer had any significant market share. This allowed its user share to increase significantly and Netscape's market share quickly plummeted to an extremely small size. Netscape lost more and more market shares to Internet Explorer in the so-called browser war, as it was supplied with the Microsoft Windows operating system.

Until about 1996 Netscape Navigator was the leading web browser for the 16-bit operating systems from Microsoft (up to Windows 95) and Mac OS from Apple Computer. The main innovation of the Netscape browser included support for HTML frames. The publication took place in October 1994 under the name Mosaic Netscape 0.9. Netscape Navigator partially licensed code of the Mosaic graphical browser. The code name for the development was ' Mozilla ', a trunk word for 'Mosaic Killer' and 'Godzilla'. The Netscape Browser was developed in the early 1990s by Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape Communications (founded as Mosaic Communications Corporation ) and former developer of NCSA Mosaic.

1.3 From the start of the Mozilla project to the discontinuation of Netscape.

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