SillyDog701

[phatvspec]

Anyone know the end of life on 4.8, not where u cant download it but when you cant call or email them for support?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

[Antony]

From what I know, the end of life period for Netscape is 1 year after the next major version released.
(This is based on the old policy when Netscape Communicator released and the development of Netscape Navigator 3.xx has to be stopped.)

Netscape Communicator 4.8 is an unusual case. Netscape Communications Inc. has stopped developing Netscape Communicator 4.7x when Netscape 6.2 released. As for supporting, I think the online support will still be available for a reasonable period of time, but calling for support? I have no idea.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/124 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.1

[jksteinhauer]

Though I'd rarely use it I was interested in having 4.8 installed just to have fun with it now and then, perhaps to reminence - I don't know ... have tried installing from Silly Dog (which is about the only location I'm able to find a download link - Tucows doesn't even carry it anymore) but when I click on the link it just hangs there; both Base and Complete. Has this download been closed?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514

[Fulvio]

Though I'd rarely use it I was interested in having 4.8 installed just to have fun with it now and then, perhaps to reminence - I don't know ... have tried installing from Silly Dog (which is about the only location I'm able to find a download link - Tucows doesn't even carry it anymore) but when I click on the link it just hangs there; both Base and Complete. Has this download been closed?

I have 4.8 installed, in the default locatio, but, just for the heck of it, I downloaded a fresh copy of the Base Install.
I selected another directory, although 4.8 trired to talk me out of it. Everything went smoothly. Now, I have two copies of 4.8. Not the best idea in the world, but it proves the point. Now what do I do?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.4.2) Gecko/20021112 CS 2000 7.0/7.0

[jksteinhauer]

I did some fumbling around at Ufaq.org and came up with a valid ftp link so I have me a copy on my machine now to tinker with now and then.
I did notice that the newsreader in Communicator downloads a lot faster than that of Netscape 7.x or Mozilla 1.x, anyone else ever made that observation?

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.8 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U)

[Don_HH2K]

Anyone know the end of life on 4.8, not where u cant download it but when you cant call or email them for support?

It seems like Communicator isn't performing online how it used to. I have Communicator 4.8 along with Netscape 6.2 on my Linux box downstairs, and NS4 doesn't work with sites like mozilla.org and others. If you are limited by an older computer you could always try K-Meleon at http://kmeleon.sf.net or a Milestone build of Mozilla such as M17.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax)