Netscape Navigator 2
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| Developer(s) | Netscape Communications Corporation |
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| Initial release | 1995 |
| Development status | Discontinued |
| Platform |
Windows 3.1/95/NT Classic Mac OS 68K OS/2 Warp Linux 1.2, IRIX, HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, SunOS, FreeBSD |
| Type | Web browser |
Netscape Navigator 2 was a proprietary web browser released by Netscape Communications Corporation as its flagship product. Versions were available for Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh, Sun Solaris, and HP-UX.
The browser introduced and improved a number of features and also added proprietary extensions to the HTML standard.
The browser introduced many new or improved features:
To promote Netscape Navigator, Netscape developed the "Netscape Now" program. The program promoted the display of the "Netscape Now! 2.0" web badge on websites with newly supported features, including frames, live objects, Java applets, and JavaScript.
The support for plugins led to the development of a number of popular plugins to extend Navigator's functionality.
Netscape had several easter eggs. Navigator 2 featured verse 12:10 from The Book of Mozilla.
The bottom of "about:authors" read:
All human actions are equivalent ... and ... all are on principle doomed ...
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