February 25th 2008

The Netscape Archive

Posted by Richard Klein

› tags: addons, archive, extensions, history, netscape navigator, releases

As mentioned previously, the Netscape Archive has been created to preserve a final resting place for client side Netscape applications, given that official support is ending March 1, 2008. The archive is now available at archive.netscape.com, and contains the following pages:

Home is the archives landing page. The left hand column consists of the end of support notice and our recommendations for software replacements. The right hand side consists of two boxes. The top box contains links that can be helpful for Netscape discussions. The bottom box has links you may find helpful in navigating around the Netscape universe.

History has information about the Netscape/AOL history and the decision to end Netscape support. The page contains a link to the blog post for any discussion you may want to have about the decision.

Releases is a table with links to all prior Netscape client software releases. This table covers releases on all three platforms starting with Navigator 4.78 and ending with Navigator 9.0.0.6.

Add-ons is a page we created to help you to regain the Navigator 9 functionality in either Flock or Firefox. The left hand side of the page has all the extensions you will need. These extensions are not a one for one match, but will give you back the same functionality. Some of them have even more functionality than what was built into Navigator. The right hand column provides some information about the Mozilla sandbox. It also provides links to the propeller extensions which were part of the early Navigator 9 betas.

We are seeing encouraging signs from our server logs that show us that a great many people are having success migrating to Flock and Firefox via the auto-update option, which is great news! We want to make sure that folks can satisfy their sense of nostalgia, while still trying out the best of breed of current browsers.

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6:00PMpolitical forum

I think this will be a valuable resource for helping to make the transition to Flock and Firefox. I look forward to all the new improvements that will be made on those programs as well. Thanks! :)

6:43PMSandy

I had no trouble switching at all. Thanks to all the great information in these posts!

8:57PMcelebrities

Good news, it could be difficult to find some "how to pages". All in one place it's good.

8:58PMmyspace

Thank you for the coverage, from there it will be easy to find missed news about the support section.

8:58PMantonietta

nice post. I iked the add-ons review.

9:08PMKauai Vacations

Great, thanks for the info to help with the transition

9:09PMGuitar Lessons

Good thing Netscape is at least making the change over a little easier.

9:09PMKauai Weddings

Thanks this should be useful

9:10PMhho gas car

awesome thanks!

9:11PMGuitar Lessons

Good thing Netscape is at least making the change over a little easier.

9:13PMADAC Web Sites

Thanks For the archive

9:16PMVideo Surveillance

I'll be watching the add-ons to see what you come up with

9:18PMAwesome Cars

This should make the transition a little easyer Thanks

9:20PMcredit cards

Well here you did another good job.thanks

9:29PMMarina

that archive is really helpful.

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