Netscape Navigator was a proprietary web browser, and the original browser of the Netscape line, from versions 1 to 4.
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11 Facts About Netscape Navigator
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Business demise of Netscape Navigator was a central premise of Microsoft's antitrust trial, wherein the Court ruled that Microsoft's bundling of Internet Explorer with the Windows operating system was a monopolistic and illegal business practice.
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Netscape Navigator name returned in 2007 when AOL announced version 9 of the Netscape series of browsers, Netscape Navigator 9.
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Netscape Navigator was inspired by the success of the Mosaic web browser, which was co-written by Marc Andreessen, a part-time employee of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois.
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Netscape's initial corporate policy regarding Navigator claimed that it would make Navigator freely available for non-commercial use in accordance with the notion that Internet software should be distributed for free.
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However, within two months of that press release, Netscape Navigator apparently reversed its policy on who could freely obtain and use version 1.
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Some security experts and cryptographers found out that all released Netscape Navigator versions had major security problems with crashing the browser with long URLs and 40 bits encryption keys.
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An innovation that Netscape Navigator introduced in 1994 was the on-the-fly display of web pages, where text and graphics appeared on the screen as the web page downloaded.
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Netscape Navigator, according to critics, was more interested in bending the web to its own de facto "standards" than it was in fixing bugs in its products.
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Netscape Navigator began to experiment with prototypes of a web-based system, known internally as "Constellation", which would allow a user to access and edit his or her files anywhere across a network no matter what computer or operating system he or she happened to be using.
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In March 1998, Netscape Navigator released most of the development code base for Netscape Navigator Communicator under an open source license.
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