AOL has a long history on the internet, being one of the first companies to really get people online. Throughout its lifetime, it has been involved with a number of high profile acquisitions, perhaps the largest of which was the 1999 acquisition of the Netscape Communications Corporation. Netscape was known to many as the thought leader in web browsing, and had developed a number of complementary pieces of software that allowed for a rich suite of internet tools.
At the time of the acquisition, the Netscape team had begun working on converting their flagship product - the Netscape Communicator web suite - into open source software, under a new name: Mozilla. AOL played a significant role in the launch of the Netscape 6 browser, the first Mozilla-based, Netscape-branded browser that was released in 2000 and continued to solely fund the development and marketing efforts of Netscape-branded browsers. In 2003, an independent foundation was created to support the continued development of the open source web suite. AOL was a major source of support for the Mozilla Foundation and the company continued to develop versions of the Netscape browser based on the work of the foundation.

While internal groups within AOL have invested a great deal of time and energy in attempting to revive Netscape Navigator, these efforts have not been successful in gaining market share from Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Recently, support for the Netscape browser has been limited to a handful of engineers tasked with creating a skinned version of Firefox with a few extensions. AOL's focus on transitioning to an ad-supported web business leaves little room for the size of investment needed to get the Netscape browser to a point many of its fans expect it to be. Given AOL's current business focus and the success the Mozilla Foundation has had in developing critically-acclaimed products, we feel it's the right time to end development of Netscape branded browsers, hand the reins fully to Mozilla and encourage Netscape users to adopt Firefox.

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How to import my Netscape 4 profile to Netscape 6 & 7

The profile manager does it for you. It will import your entire profile(s) if you wish, including bookmarks, cookies, as well as your email messages and mail and news server settings. It's as easy as the click of a button! Please note that your existing Netscape 4 profile will not be altered in any way, i.e. you can still use Netscape 4 as before. Note: There is a difference between importing your Netscape 4 profile with Mozilla and Netscape 7. Only Netscape 7 will convert/import your Netscape 7 address book! Mozilla cannot do that due to the proprietary file format that Netscape 4 uses.

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Step Five - Scripts and Plugins

Javascript and Plugins have (in most cases) greatly improved the Internet experience by adding features to previously text and image only sites. As with all things, they have their drawbacks, too, which can be alleviated with Netscape's Javascript and Plugin Preferences.

Netscape's JavaScript and Plugin Preferences

• The recommended "Enable Javascript for" settings are:
  Check "Enable Javascript" for Navigator (i.e. the Browser) and uncheck (disable) it for Mail & Newsgroups.
  The reason why I recommend this is that I see no reason whatsoever for Javscript in mail and newsgroup messages besides using a script to fetch data from a remote server (verifying that you have read the message) or to do things you neither need nor want them to.
• The recommended "Allow scripts to" settings are:
  Uncheck (disable) "Move or resize existing windows", "Raise or lower windows", " Change status bar text" (this will help protect you from Spoofing, i.e. sites pretending to be another site) and "Hide the status bar".
  Check (enable) "Change Images" (this is e.g. used for mouse over effects), "Create or change cookies" and "Read Cookies". All other features will (in my opinion) neither hurt if selected or deselected.
• The recommended "Enable plugins for Mail & Newsgroups" setting is:
  Uncheck (disable) "Enable plugins for Mail & Newsgroups", as again, I see no need for plugins in mail and newsgroup messages, but I do see potential for misuse.

With these settings applied, Mozilla should protect your online security and privacy even better. But as I said in the beginning: The safe use of the Internet is always also the individual user's responsibility.

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If you want Netscape to remember passwords for you, check "Remember passwords" and "Use encryption when storing sensitive data".

If you check "Use encryption when storing sensitive data" (recommended), you also need to select a master password.

Mozilla's Master Password dialog



Make sure to select a password that is easy to remember but also safe (i.e. not your spouse's or boat's name). As a rule of thumb, using a combination of numbers, letters and symbols (e.g. ~) is safer than just using numbers or letters. The difference regarding the password's ease of being cracked is enormous - it ranges from roughly 1 minute (just letters) to almost a year (letters, numbers and symbols). When you enter your master password, Netscape will show how safe it is. The longer the bar, the safer the password.

Now you may say "But if someone gets a hold of my master password, won't they know all my other passwords, as well?". Theoretically yes, but that person would need to a) know your password and b) have physical access to your PC.

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Step Four - Passwords

"It is a common misconception that you have to be faster than the bear. You don't - you just need to be faster than your assistant"

Passwords and Pin numbers have become a part of our daily lives. Unfortunately, the more passwords we have, the more we are apt to use the same ones over and over lest we forget them. The shortcomings of this approach from a security point of view are quite obvious: If someone gets a hold of your one password, then they can access your email, newsgroups, ebay account,...

Well, why not make the browser remember the passwords for us?
Netscape's Password Manager can take care of that for you.

Of course, what about hackers who might "steal" the passwords from the browser? Well, Mozilla's programmers made it harder for them to steal passwords. In addition to your profile's path never being the same (this is why they added the "df745kdtk.slt" folder - it always has a different name, hence there's always a different path to your profile), Netscape can also encrypt your stored information. While there is no such thing as perfect security, you just need to be a harder target than your average Internet Explorer user .

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