A stand Alone version of Netscape Navigator was still available but stopped at version 4.08 for windows while Unix/Linux were maintained up to version 4.8 The suite was made up of Netscape Navigator, Netscape Mail and Newsgroup, Netscape Address Book and Netscape Composer (an HTML editor, which later became Mozilla composer was split off into a completely separate product, Nvu).Netscape Communicator 4.5 was released on October 1998, which has a lot of functionality improvement but didn’t update the browser core which a month later Netscappe Communication Corporation was bought by AOL. The new suite was quite successful, despite the increasing competition from Internet Explorer 4.0 and problems with outdated browser core. It uses almost more or less the same concept of Netscape Navigator 3 Coode, but updated and added a lot of new features. released the final version of Netscape Communicator in June 1997.
They released 5 preview from 1996 – 1997, which is when Netscape Corp. Netscape 4 said Netscape Navigator is a problem as both the name of the suite and the browser contained within has the same name, so they rename the suite to Netscape Communicator. Netscape 3.0 was a huge success due to its new features such as plug-ins, background colors for tables and so on. Netscape released version 3.0 and face a serious competition with Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0, However Netscape easily held off Microsoft’s challenge and remain number one web browser. During this period, AOL also started bundling their software with Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Upon releasing version 2.0, a Full mail reader called Netscape Mail has integrated with Netscape Navigator, making it from a mere browser to an Internet suite. The browser became a market leader while in Beta, and continuously grows rapidly after version 1.0 was released due to its advance features. Its first beta release version was released on 1994, which is known as Mosaic and then Mosaic Netscape which change to Netscape Navigator due to a legal challenge from National Center for Supercomputing Applications (Makers of Mosaic), whom many are Netscape’s founders thus leading to a name change. Netscape’s web browser from version 1.0 through 4.8 was called Netscape Navigator.
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