Previous
Netscape 6 Good As Gold
News Netscape 6 is finally being released, but critics say it offers little if any improvement over the reigning browser champ, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5. Netscape 6.0 is the first browser developed by Netscape under the auspices of its merger...
[November 14, 2000, 8:14]
Netscape 6 Beta Due Next Month
News On Monday, America Online's (AOL) Netscape Communications subsidiary announced that the beta version of its Netscape 6 Web browser and email software will be available by mid-April. Netscape also announced that IBM, Intel, Liberate Technologies...
[March 22, 2000, 15:10]
Report: 'Unofficial' Netscape 6 Beta Hits The Web
News According to the Windows enthusiast site Betanews.com, an "unofficial" pre-release of the long-awaited Netscape 6 Beta 1 client was available for download briefly late Wednesday night. Betanews reports that Netscape has since removed the software...
[March 30, 2000, 16:18]
IE 6 Gains Foothold In Browser Market
News Microsoft's recently released Internet Explorer 6 has taken 2.4 percent of the browser market, quickly closing in on AOL Time Warner's Netscape 6, according to a new study. StatMarket would not release the figures for Netscape 6, but it said that...
[September 7, 2001, 9:32]
AOL Time Warner Releases Netscape 6.1 Browser
News AOL Time Warner's Netscape Communications has released the first major upgrade to its browser software, Netscape 6. The upgrade, Netscape 6.1, was spotted by several beta testers on Netscape's Web site briefly on Tuesday before its official posting...
[August 8, 2001, 16:24]
Mixed Reviews For Netscape 6.0
News Good and bad news for Netscape 6. Analyst Lydia Loizides of Jupiter Communications liked the look of the third, and final, beta version of Netscape 6, made available for free download Wednesday. The absolute final version of the Netscape 6.0 will...
[October 5, 2000, 14:53]
New Mozilla Beta Hits The Web
News Mozilla.org has released the latest beta-test version of Mozilla, the open-source browser suite on which AOL Time Warner's Netscape 6 is based. Netscape released the source code for Mozilla in 1999. The company's first release of Netscape 6, based...
[November 21, 2001, 14:23]
Netscape Browser Ratchets Up To Version 6.01
News AOL Time Warner Wednesday quietly released a minor upgrade to its Netscape 6.0 browser. Version 6.01 is available from the Netscape FTP server, but AOL Time Warner had not, as of early Thursday morning, posted the update to the Web.
[February 8, 2001, 16:15]
News Roundup: Battle Of The Browsers
News Thu, 07 Dec As Netscape weathers heavy criticism that it released its latest browser prematurely, competition is heating up Did Netscape jump the gun with new browser? Fri, 01 Dec Long heckled for being late to market with its new browser, Netscape...
[December 7, 2000, 10:32]
Did Netscape Jump The Gun With New Browser?
News Netscape fans breathed a sigh of relief, two weeks ago, with the official launch of Netscape's first major browser release, in more than two years. Netscape is closely monitoring feedback to Netscape 6," said a company representative.
[December 1, 2000, 11:27]
IE Still Rules The Browser Market - For Now
News AOL Time Warner's Netscape browser has fallen to third place, with only about 7 percent of the market. The Netscape software had been able to hold onto 12 percent of the market until IE 6 was released, "at which point it began dropping...
[March 28, 2002, 6:31]
Mozilla-based NeoPlanet Muscles In On Browser Act
News Both Opera Software, a Norwegian browser maker, and NeoPlanet, a contributor to Netscape's Mozilla open source development group, are making aggressive moves just as many see America Online subsidiary Netscape in a newly vulnerable position.
[December 7, 2000, 11:05]
Experts Argue Over Netscape 6.0
News Netscape 6.0 is the delayed version of the America Online/Netscape Communications browser that is due to ship before the end of this year. The browser has been developed by Netscape engineers, in conjunction with the open source developers who are...
[November 8, 2000, 8:23]
Sun: Open Source For The Masses
News With Openoffice.org, Sun is attempting to duplicate the strategy that was adopted by AOL's Netscape division with its Mozilla open source spinoff. With Netscape 6, Netscape is engaging in a similar practice with Mozilla.org.
[October 13, 2000, 12:25]
Opera Finds Footing In Browser War
News AOL also has inked deals with another browser maker, Nokia, to get the Netscape brand into cell phones, a strategy Netscape has described as "complementary" to its Mozilla effort. Opera's progress with non-PC devices spells competition for...
[May 16, 2001, 9:25]
Renegade IE 6 Postings Have Microsoft On Edge
News MS gets aggressive Many of the new features in the leaked beta, according to screen shots posted by The-Ctrl-Alt-Del.com and an interview with its Webmaster, indicate that Microsoft is moving more aggressively to tie its browser to its other Web...
[January 30, 2001, 8:37]
Opera To Fan The Browser-war Flames
News The company is expected to position Opera 5 for Windows as a head-to-head competitor with Microsoft's Internet Explorer 5.5 and America Online's Netscape 6.0. Both IE 5.5 and Netscape 6 are free. AOL/Netscape, meanwhile, released the gold version...
[December 1, 2000, 12:28]
Mozilla Launches Bug-spotting Competition
News In a posting to three newsgroups devoted to the Netscape-hatched open-source browser, including "netscape.public.mozilla.general," Mozilla staff member Gervase Markham invited developers to email a guess.
[November 6, 2002, 13:52]
Standalone IE 6 Closer To Public Beta
News IE 6 will go head-to-head with AOL Time Warner's Netscape 6 -- a product released by the America Online subsidiary last fall and criticised by many developers and other industry participants as too buggy for prime time.
[February 28, 2001, 10:02]
Mozilla 1.0 Unleashed On Browser Market
News Mozilla 1.0 will be compared against the latest generations of commercial browsers, so Mozilla spent the time necessary to make sure this release would indeed be ready for prime time," said a representative for Netscape, which created the project...
[June 6, 2002, 8:48]
