The new Netscape Browser gives you more ways to make your browser secure.This feature is great for organizing and freeing up desktop space because it files your web pages in a series of tabs. Tabbed browsing lets you have multiple web pages open in one window.If you have a family, create a profile for your children and make use of the parental controls feature. Create more than one profile to keep your bookmarks and passcards safe from other users.The Netscape Browser takes the mystery out of Real Simple Syndication (RSS) and allows you to read and manage RSS feeds without the need of a separate news reader application.You may also run memory and disk scans for Spyware protection and prevention. The Netscape Browser provides real time Spyware scanning when you download files from the web.The browser will automatically let you know when there is a problem. Quickly view the status of security protection provided by the Netscape Browser.The name 'Netscape ' was invented by sales representative Greg Sands. The company they created was initially named 'Mosaic Communications Corporation' and their web browser 'Mosaic Netscape ', but a legal challenge from NCSA over the rights to the name resulted in the company and the product being renamed. The acquisition of Netscape by Microsoft rival AOL and a lengthy antitrust trial could not change the browser's fortune.Netscape Navigator was developed by the team who had created the Mosaic web browser at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. introduced Internet Explorer (IE) in the mid-1990s. However, its market share started crumbling when Microsoft Corp. Netscape was the most popular browser in the early years of the Web.

AOL is testing a new Netscape Desktop Navigator product and in January launched the Netscape Internet service, a low-cost Internet service provider. While it has been quiet on the Netscape browser front, AOL has not retired the Netscape brand, which it acquired six years ago in a $4.2 billion deal.

Last year, the people behind Mozilla created a foundation, largely funded by a $2 million pledge from AOL, to build, support and promote Mozilla products.

Analysts had said that the death knell was sounding for the Netscape browser after AOL last year laid off essentially all of its Netscape software developers and ended development work on the Mozilla browser technology.ĭevelopment work was taken over by the Mozilla open source project, which was originally started in early 1998 by Netscape and continued when AOL acquired Netscape later that year.

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