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[Edward]

Even Opera, now, which is a much better browser than Netscape 4 has ever been, only wants $39, maybe if Netscape had charged $20 and spent those 3 years adding something besides Radio and buddy lists, they might have lived to fight another day.

When Opera 7 is newly installed, it is also advertising-free for 14 days! It's a nice touch to see how Opera is, without the ad-banner.

UserAgent: Opera/7.03 (Windows 98; U) [en]

[Antony]

Netscape's fee charging was honour method. You don't really need to pay, no functions will be locked out. Never had any banner ads.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 (CK-SillyDog)

[Josh]

$60 for Netscape 4?

What's wrong with that?
Netscape although not the first web browser, it was the first easy-to-use, cross platform and graphic browser. It was Netscape who bring the web/internet into everyday's life.

I think you are thinking of NSCA Mosaic.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

[Antony]

$60 for Netscape 4?

What's wrong with that?
Netscape although not the first web browser, it was the first easy-to-use, cross platform and graphic browser. It was Netscape who bring the web/internet into everyday's life.

I think you are thinking of NSCA Mosaic.

I was talking about Netscape.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 (CK-SillyDog)

[Mandrake]

I did state NN 4 was better than IE 4.x, I did not say it was better than IE 5.x! But then from 0.7 and up I used Mozilla, and finally gave 4.74 or whatever 4.7x is what up for good.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020611

[DJGM]

I think you are thinking of NSCA Mosaic.

NCSA Mosaic was the first ever graphical web browser, but Netscape was
the first graphical web browser to make everyone sit up and take notice.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 (DJGM-i.net)

[marios-p]

I like Communicator 4 more than Netscape 6 or 7.
I understand the atmosphere here is different, but there are people like me also. Few... maybe. And an upgrade (Communicator 4.9999999 or 5?) will be for us. Maybe... Some people here "hope" that everyone different from them will disappear. "Netscape jihad"?
Let us be.

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

[Edward]

I'm just guessing here, but if there would be any forthcoming releases of Netscape Communicator, they might only be for various bug- or security-related issues.

There was a period of nine months between the time 4.79 was released and 4.8.

UserAgent: Opera/7.10 (Windows 98; U) [en]

[Mandrake]

Remembering that the work on Communicator 4.x is done by Sun now, not Netscape. Sun dictates if anymore versions of Communicator come out.

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)

[Ralph2]

What I don't understand is why NS7 would issue a release with a clearly inferior mail / news portion?
With the same arrogance as MS the programmers at NS are forcing the users in the direction they want to go..... the end user be damned. Answering my own question... it is all about exposing us to the advertiser, nothing else matters.
Ralph

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 (CK-SillyDog)

[Edward]

Remembering that the work on Communicator 4.x is done by Sun now, not Netscape. Sun dictates if anymore versions of Communicator come out.

If Sun is doing the work on it, then why would the copyright still refer to Netscape Communications Corporation?

Apart from the name, they must have something to do with it. Even Help/About Netscape references Netscape, and only references Sun WRT Java.

UserAgent: Opera/7.10 (Windows 98; U) [en]

[jksteinhauer]

Netscape although not the first web browser, it was the first easy-to-use, cross platform and graphic browser. It was Netscape who bring the web/internet into everyday's life.

Yes, and let's give credit where credit is due. Netscape laid the important foundation for the modern browsers, IE, Opera, etc. No doubt Microsoft would have arrived but Netscape expedited the process immensely and I recall at the time 2.x - through, being absolutely amazed that we could 'see' the internet rather than mere letters on a page.
I for one am glad sites such as Anthony's Silly Dog still make these classic forerunners available because it's good to see where things came from in relation to where things are, albeit everything from 4.0 back is practically unuseable, still good to remember.
The next time one goes knocking 4.x for example, try and remember that sense of awe back then you felt.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030406

[jksteinhauer]

What I don't understand is why NS7 would issue a release with a clearly inferior mail / news portion?
With the same arrogance as MS the programmers at NS are forcing the users in the direction they want to go..... the end user be damned. Answering my own question... it is all about exposing us to the advertiser, nothing else matters.
Ralph

Unless I just happen to have a magic computer and I'm very easy to please, I have found the Netscape later 6's and 7.x and Moz 0.x - 1.x to be very suitable to my needs and have been very pleased thusfar. But, in response to you Ralph, firstly I refer you to http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=3023, and, someone's got to pay the bills and salaries somehow for this wonderful work to continue.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030406

[Mandrake]

iPlanet was working on Communicator, but when the alliance between Sun and AOLTW ended, iPlanet became a part of Sun Microsystems. No releases have been made since iPlanet was made apart of Sun.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030407