For trustworthy sites, it rendered pages using Internet Explorer technology, but for dubious sites, pages were displayed in Gecko, the rendering engine used in Firefox.

In 2005, Netscape 8.0 was introduced for Windows with a website rating system that warned users of suspicious sites. Soon after, Microsoft integrated IE into the Windows 98, and it quickly became the primary Web browser. Initially a paid product, Netscape was forced to give Navigator away after Microsoft launched its Internet Explorer (IE) browser as a free program. As of Version 6.0, the Navigator name was dropped, and Februwas its last update. Soon after its introduction in 1994, Navigator, or just plain 'Netscape,' as it was commonly called, quickly became the leading browser on the Web. Netscape NavigatorAn earlier Web browser for Windows, Mac and X Windows from Netscape Communications Corporation that provided secure transmission over the Internet. The Netscape browser was one of the main issues in the Microsoft antitrust trial, during which Netscape was acquired by AOL (see Netscape Navigator). As a result, Netscape was forced to make its browser free and watch its market share dwindle as IE became the dominant on-ramp to the Internet. In record time, Microsoft created the Internet Explorer (IE) browser and gave it away free then built it into Windows 98. It also caused Microsoft to restructure its entire product line to become Internet compliant. Netscape ignited dot-com fever, reaching a market cap of USD $2 billion so fast that it became the most successful IPO in history. Founded in 1994 by James Clark, former patriarch of SGI, and Marc Andreessen, who, along with Eric Bina, created the Mosaic browser at the University of Illinois, Netscape quickly became the number one topic regarding the Web as Internet fever enveloped the nation in the mid-1990s. (2) (Netscape Communications Corporation, Mountain View, CA, Part of America Online (AOL), Netscape was famous for its Navigator browser in the early days of the Web.

This article is provided by FOLDOC - Free Online Dictionary of Computing ( ) Netscape (1) For the browser, see Netscape Navigator.

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