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

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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Netscape 7.1 contains the same Spam filter as Mozilla.

Netscape’s Mail filter was trained with 300 Spam messages and 2700 "good" messages. Then, they let Netscape automatically analyze 280 new Email messages. Here is a summary of their findings:

>>The analysis of the 2700 "good" training messages took about 1 Minute.

>>The subsequent automatic classification (Spam/not Spam) of the 280 new Email messages took only about 2-3 seconds

>>107 messages were correctly identified as Spam and moved to the "Spam" folder. Most importantly, not a single "good" message was classified as Spam!

>>The remaining 173 messages were identified as not being Spam and moved to the Inbox. Of those, 30 messages (17 per cent) were Spam but not identified as it.

These results are already very encouraging, especially when considering that Mail Shield's initial error ratio was 50 per cent and even after manual tweaking, it was still at 25 per cent.

Cross-platform

• Run Navigator 9 on Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux!

URL correction

• Navigator will automatically correct common typos made in Web addresses.
• Examples: .cmo => .com, htp:// => http://, netscape,com => netscape.com

Link Pad

• Use the Link Pad as a holding area for interesting links that don’t merit bookmarking.

FF2 Extensions

• Install any Firefox ® 2-compatible extension.
• Browse through thousands of extensions at Mozilla Add-ons.

Sidebar

• Use the sidebar as a "mini browser" to keep a page in plain sight while you surf through other pages.
• Drag and drop links on the sidebar or right-click and choose "Open in Sidebar" to use the sidebar browser.

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Windows

To install Navigator on Windows, double-click on the installer that you downloaded from the downloads page. The installer will walk you through the rest of the installation.

Mac OS X

To install Navigator on Mac OS X, open the DMG file that you downloaded for the downloads page and drag the Navigator application to your Applications folder.

Linux

To install Navigator on Linux, extract the archive you downloaded and run ./netscape/navigator from a terminal. (This will execute the browser; there are no formal installation instructions available for Linux.)

Removing Navigator 9

You can remove Navigator 9 through the Control Panel in the Start Menu on Windows, by removing the Navigator application on OS X, or by removing the navigator folder on Linux.

Removing Navigator 9 won't remove your bookmarks, web browsing history, extensions or other add-ons. This data is stored in your profile folder, which is located in one of the following locations depending on your operating system:

Windows 2000, XP	Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Netscape\Navigator\
Windows NT	WINNT\Profiles\\Application Data\Netscape\Navigator\
Windows 98, ME	Windows\Application Data\Netscape\Navigator\
Mac OS X	~/Library/Application Support/Navigator/
Linux and Unix systems	~/.netscape/navigator/

Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.6 is based on Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12.

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