netscape open source development

Netscape Communicator Open Source Code White Paper

White Paper This paper discusses Netscape's new open source development strategy; provides examples of successful open source projects; describes how Netscape plans to use this model to deliver high-quality, branded versions; and reveals how developers... [03 Jul 2008]

AOL pulls plug on Netscape browser

News Netscape came back in 1998 with a plan to make its browser open-source software, but that didn't immediately improve the company's prospects and Netscape ended up an AOL subsidiary even as the company continued to ship Microsoft's browser. [02 Jan 2008]

Firefox takes aim at phishers

News Similar functionality is already in Netscape 8 and Opera 8, both released last year. Cyota, an anti-phishing specialist which was acquired by RSA Security last year, provides lists of known fraudulent websites to Microsoft for IE 7 and to Netscape... [09 Mar 2006]

Netscape founder says PHP beats Java

News PHP is an open source project. Eclipse is an open source programming-tool project that long supported Java and now also supports PHP. PHP, like open source projects including Apache and Linux, has now received the blessing of major powers in the... [20 Oct 2005]

Google and Sun tie the knot

News McNealy said: "What Netscape did for the Java Runtime Environment, we believe the JRE can do for the Google Toolbar", referring to the 1995 deal Sun made with Netscape, then the dominant maker of web browser software, that helped legitimise and... [05 Oct 2005]

Netscape: New version set to leap out

News A beta version of Netscape 8 has been available since early March, based on code from version 1.0 of the open source browser Firefox. A Mozilla developer claims the next version of Netscape is about to be released and says it will be significantly... [18 May 2005]

Netscape 8 launch 'imminent'

That version of Netscape was based on code from version 1.0 of the open source browser Firefox. A Mozilla developer claims the next version of Netscape is about to be released and says it will be significantly different to an earlier beta version. [18 May 2005]

Linux touted as the solution to online-banking problems

Tronson did make it clear that if necessary, his company would customise its product to a bank's needs, saying: "There are other browsers available (Netscape, Opera, etc). So the company took the Linux distribution and used the open source IceWM... [24 Mar 2005]

Mozilla's future under debate

Mozilla developers on the 'netscape.public.mozilla.seamonkey' newsgroup have been in fierce debate over the future of the open source suite since the minutes of the 28th February mozilla.org staff meeting were posted online on the 7th of March. [10 Mar 2005]

Cheat Sheet: RSS feeds

Cheat Sheet RSS was originally created by Netscape in the late 1990s. A lot of RSS readers can be downloaded for free - Mozilla's open source Firefox browser has RSS reading functionality built in or there are several free readers available, including Pluck... [09 Mar 2005]

Netscape gets 'No Phishing' sign

Netscape, a unit of Time Warner subsidiary AOL, has been recharging its browser activity in recent months, prodded by the success of its open-source spin-off, the Mozilla Foundation, and by the prospects of increased revenue through browser-based... [01 Feb 2005]

Netscape 8 adds anti-phishing features

News Netscape, a unit of Time Warner subsidiary AOL, has been recharging its browser activity in recent months, prodded by the success of its open-source spin-off, the Mozilla Foundation, and by the prospects of increased revenue through browser-based... [01 Feb 2005]

Google poaches Firefox programmer

News Firefox, which has cut into the dominant market share enjoyed by Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, is a variant of the open-source Mozilla browser project begun in 1998 by Netscape Communications. [26 Jan 2005]

Firefox's New Year resolution: Keep growing

The group was created by Netscape Communications in 1999 to develop its browser following the open-source development model and was spun off in 2003 as a nonprofit foundation by Netscape parent Time Warner. [27 Dec 2004]

Mozilla puts Outlook in the firing line

News The Mozilla Foundation, an open-source development group founded by Netscape and spun off last year by Netscape's parent company Time Warner, on Wednesday published a release candidate of its Thunderbird 1.0 email management software. [02 Dec 2004]

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