Starting in 1995, Mosaic lost market share to Netscape Navigator and only had a tiny fraction of users left by 1997, when the project was discontinued. NCSA released it in 1993, and officially discontinued development and support on January 7, 1997. Mosaic was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign beginning in late 1992. It is often described as the first graphical web browser, though it was preceded by WorldWideWeb, the lesser-known Erwise, and ViolaWWW. Mosaic is the first browser to display images inline with text instead of in a separate window. Its intuitive interface, reliability, personal computer support, and simple installation all contributed to its popularity within the web.
It was named for its support of multiple Internet protocols, such as Hypertext Transfer Protocol, File Transfer Protocol, Network News Transfer Protocol, and Gopher. It was instrumental in popularizing the World Wide Web and the general Internet by integrating multimedia such as text and graphics. The innovations here might make this more than a backup browser.NCSA Mosaic is a discontinued web browser, and one of the first to be widely available. IE mode, integrated AOL IM, RSS reader, form filler, and security suite are gone, but the compatibility with Firefox 2 extensions and LinkPad more than make up for the loss. Most of the bundled features from version 8 have been removed. All Sidebar features have toolbar icons that you can add at will. This is one of Navigator's new tricks that we love, but wish had more traditional notepad functionality. Drag-and-drop adds a URL, clicking on the saved link opens it in a new tab. users-a small, rebellious group, no doubt-will appreciate the Mini-Browser sidebar, which is essentially two tabs opened simultaneously, and the Link Pad, a savable URL notepad. Netscape Friends' Activity shows you what your friends have been doing, Netscape Tracker tracks the latest site updates, and Netscape News tracks only news posts. Already-posted articles show Vote and Discuss icons instead of Share.īookmarks and History are self-explanatory sidebars, but a series of -related ones work well, too. The content becomes a summary, in a box that just needs a few tags to be submitted to the collective. Highlight content from the page and hit Share. The Share button inside the address bar connects you directly to. is a huge part of the new Navigator: some new features might not be of interest if you don't hang out there. The new Netscape Navigator takes a Firefox foundation, some neat Sidebar innovations, and an inside track to the social-networking and news site to create a browser that has some great features with minimal wonkiness.
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