Netscape 4.5x
Netscape Navigator/Communicator was the first commercial web browser, displacing the free NCSA Mosaic. 1.0 was first released in December 1994, and initially offered advanced features such as progressively rendering pages as they loaded. It quickly gained many other features and capabilities and became the most popular web browser in the mid 1990s. One reason for its popularity, it was licensed freely for personal and non-profit use, although companies were expected to pay for a license. It later competed with Microsoft Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari, and eventually was open sourced in to the Mozilla browser.
Many other versions of Netscape can be found on the Sillydog Archive and the Netscape FTP. Some earlier versions can be located on the Mcom.com Archive.
Wanted: Genuine floppy/CD dumps - these often differed slightly from the free download versions.
Release notes
Netscape 4.5x-4.80, branded "Netscape Communicator", was the last commercial release before transitioning to their open source Gecko rendering engine.
Information
- Product type
- Application Web Browser
- Vendor
- Netscape Communications Corporation
- Release date
- 1998
- Minimum CPU
- 486
- Minimum RAM
- 16MB
- User interface
- GUI
- Platform
- Windows OS2 Unix Linux MacOS Other
- Download count
- 56 (6 for release)
Downloads
| Download name | Version | Language | Architecture | File size | Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Netscape Communicator 4.61 for OS2 (2001) |
4.61 | English |
|
10.13MB | 0 |
|
Netscape Communicator 4.80 for Macintosh PPC - Complete US (2002) (BIN) |
4.80 | English |
|
16.59MB | 2 |
|
Netscape Communicator 4.80 for Windows 9x NT - Complete US (2002) |
4.80 | English |
|
23.69MB | 4 |