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mozillaZine: Netscape Announces Cross-Platform Netscape 9 to be Developed In-House

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 5, 2007

“The official Netscape Blog has announced that Netscape 9 is
under development. Like the current Netscape Browser 8, this
release will presumably be based on Mozilla Firefox. According to
the announcement, Netscape 9 will be a standalone browser (lacking
components like a mail client or Web page editor) and will have
tight integration with the Netscape.com website, which was
relaunched as a Digg-style user-driven news and current events
portal last year. A subsequent post revealed that Netscape 9 will
be released simultaneously for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
Netscape Browser 8 is only available for Windows.

“The Netscape 9 announcement was cross-posted to The Netscape
Unofficial FAQ by Netscape Champion Jay Garcia, who is in a
position to know about Netscape’s browser plans…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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