Netscape 6

Netscape 6 was the name of Netscape Communications Corporation's proprietary cross-platform internet suite from versions 6.0–6.2.3. It superseded Netscape Communicator 4.8 (as the release of Netscape Communicator 5 was scrapped) and was replaced by the simply-named Netscape. Netscape 6, and later Netscape 7, were based on the Mozilla Application Suite, an open-source software package which at that time was simply known as Mozilla.

It consisted of the following major components:

  • a web browser
  • an e-mail and news client, Netscape Mail & Newsgroups
  • an address book
  • an HTML editor, Netscape Composer
  • an instant messaging client, AOL Instant Messenger

Read more about Netscape 6:  History and Development, Release History