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73-627: It was one of the main participants of the first browser war . Its distribution methods and Windows integration were involved in the United States v. Microsoft Corp. case. It was superseded by Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 in March 1999. In addition the Internet Explorer layout engine MSHTML (Trident) was introduced. It attained just over 60% market share by March 1999 when IE5 was released. In August 2001 when Internet Explorer 6

146-685: A phoenix after Netscape Navigator was killed off by Microsoft. This browser became the focus of the Mozilla Foundation's development efforts. Mozilla's Firefox 1 was released on November 9, 2004, and it then continued to gain an increasing share of the browser market until a peak of around 24% in 2010. In response, in April 2004, the Mozilla Foundation and Opera Software joined efforts to develop new open-technology standards which add more capability while remaining backward-compatible with existing technologies. The result of this collaboration

219-553: A 12-week grace period was given before discontinuing that version number. Those who continued to use the rapid releases with an active Internet connection were automatically updated to Firefox 11 on March 15, 2012. By the end of 2012, however, Chrome overtook both Internet Explorer and Firefox to become the world's most used browser. During this era, all major web browsers implemented support for HTML video . Supported codecs, however, varied from browser to browser. Then versions of Android, Chrome, and Firefox supported Theora, H.264, and

292-411: A crash, a phishing filter, and a spell-checker for text fields. Mozilla released Firefox 3 on June 17, 2008, with performance improvements and other new features. Firefox 3.5 followed on June 30, 2009, with further performance improvements, native integration of audio and video, and more privacy features. Apple created forks of the open-source KHTML and KJS layout and JavaScript engines from

365-488: A high-priority update through Windows Update . Typical market share analysis showed only a slow uptake of Internet Explorer 7 and Microsoft decided to drop the requirement for WGA and made Internet Explorer 7 available to all Windows users in October 2007. Throughout the two following years, Microsoft worked on Internet Explorer 8 . On December 19, 2007, the company announced that an internal build of that version had passed

438-416: A higher usage share than Internet Explorer if each version of each browser was looked at individually: for example, Firefox 3.5 was reported as the third most popular browser version from December 2009 to February 2010, succeeded by Firefox 3.6 since April 2010, each ahead of Internet Explorer 7 but behind Internet Explorer 6 and 8. On January 21, 2010, Mozilla released Mozilla Firefox 3.6 , which introduced

511-514: A key player for the mobile web. Google released the Chrome browser on September 1, 2008, using the same WebKit rendering engine as Safari and a faster JavaScript engine called V8. Shortly after, an open-sourced version for the Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux platforms was released under the name Chromium . According to Net Applications, Chrome had gained a 3.6% usage share by October 2009. After

584-438: A long-time player in the browser wars, known for being lightweight and introducing innovative features such as tabbed browsing and mouse gestures . However, the software was commercial, which hampered its adoption compared to its free rivals until 2005, when the browser became freeware . On June 20, 2006, Opera Software released Opera 9 including an integrated source viewer, a BitTorrent client implementation, and widgets. It

657-560: A new type of theme display, 'Personas'. This allowed users to change Firefox's appearance with a single click. Version 3.6 also improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness, and startup times. Google released Google Chrome 9 on February 3, 2011. New features introduced included support for WebGL , Chrome Instant, and the Chrome Web Store. The company created another seven versions of Chrome that year, finishing with Chrome 16 on December 15, 2011. Google Chrome 17

730-642: A new version of Edge based on Chromium and powered by Google's rendering engine , Blink , rather than their own rendering engine, EdgeHTML . The new Microsoft Edge browser was released on January 15, 2020. Though Firefox showed a slight increase in usage share as of February 2019, it continues to struggle with less than 10% usage share worldwide. By April 2019, worldwide Google Chrome usage share crossed 70% across personal computers and remained over 60% combining all devices. In June 2022, Microsoft permanently retired Internet Explorer in favor of Microsoft Edge as their sole browser. As of January 2023, Microsoft Edge

803-433: A page of links on one side of the screen that opens pages in the right hand and support for Mac OS technology like Sherlock . On November 5, 1997, a beta of IE for Unix 4.0 was released for testing on Solaris. On January 27, 1998, it was reported that IE 4.0 for Solaris was due in March; Tod Nielsen, general manager of Microsoft's developer relations group, joked that "he wanted to launch Internet Explorer 4.0 for Unix at

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876-402: A part of Solaris 2.0. SunOS 4.1. x micro versions continued to be released through 1994, and each of these was also given a Solaris 1. x equivalent name. In practice, these were often still referred to by customers and even Sun personnel by their SunOS release names. Matching the version numbers was not straightforward: Today, SunOS 5 is universally known as Solaris , although

949-519: A result, Internet Explorer was provided free for all Windows and Macintosh users, unlike Netscape, which was free for home and educational use but would require a paid license for business use. Microsoft bundled Internet Explorer with every copy of Windows, which had over a 95% share of the desktop operating system market in June 2004, allowing the company to obtain market share more easily than Netscape as customers already had Internet Explorer installed as

1022-466: A stripped-down browser-only version of the full suite, which included new features such as a separate search bar (which had previously only appeared in the Opera browser), was created. The browser-only version was initially named Phoenix , but because of trademark issues that name was changed, first to Firebird , then to Firefox . Phoenix was chosen because " Phoenix ", implied that it would rise like

1095-489: Is a website type which allows synchronizing website content and viewing it offline. It makes use of the Channel Definition Format , which is a way of defining a website's content and structure. Each country had different channels, so picking a country during the installation of IE 4 was important. Channels could be displayed in a Channel Bar and made heavy use of Dynamic HTML . Windows Desktop Update

1168-400: Is a feature of Internet Explorer 's optional Windows Desktop Update that allows the user to add HTML content to the desktop , along with some other features. Active Desktop placed a number of "channels" on the user's computer desktop that provided continually-updated information, such as news headlines and stock quotes, without requiring the user to open a web browser . Active Channel

1241-599: Is one small twist: after Solaris 2.6, the "2." was dropped from the Solaris name and the SunOS minor number appears by itself. The latest Solaris release is named Solaris 11 and incorporates SunOS 5.11. Beginning with SunOS 1.0, the Sun Window System provided a GUI called Suntools, layered on top of lower-level windowing and bitmap libraries; this was renamed SunView in SunOS 3.0. Sun then developed

1314-486: The Acid2 CSS test in "IE8 standards mode" — the last of the major browsers to do so. Internet Explorer 8 was released on March 19, 2009. New features included accelerators , improved privacy protection, a compatibility mode for pages designed for older browsers, and improved support for various web standards. It was the last version of Internet Explorer to be released for Windows XP . Internet Explorer 8 scored 20/100 in

1387-479: The Acid3 test, which was much worse than all major competitors at the time. In October 2010, StatCounter reported that Internet Explorer had for the first time dropped below 50% market share to 49.87% in their figures. Also, StatCounter reported Internet Explorer 8's first drop in usage share in the same month. Microsoft released Internet Explorer 9 on March 14, 2011. It featured a revamped interface, support for

1460-522: The KDE Konqueror browser in 2002. They explained that those provided a basis for easier development than other technologies by being small (fewer than 140,000 lines of code ), cleanly designed, and standards-compliant. The resulting layout engine became known as WebKit and it was incorporated into the Safari browser that first shipped with Mac OS X v10.3 . On June 13, 2003, Microsoft said it

1533-602: The Ripley's Believe It or Not! museum in San Francisco " because of skepticism from those who suspected IE for Unix was vaporware . It was further reported that versions for " HP-UX , IBM AIX , and Irix " were planned. The software used to enable this, MainWin XDE, was available for Solaris 2.5.1 on SPARC and Intel, SunOS 4.1.4, Irix 5.3, Irix 6.2, HP UX 10.2, and IBM AIX 4.1.5. On March 4, 1998, IE 4.0 for Unix on Solaris

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1606-518: The SunOS name is still visible within the OS itself – in the startup banner, the output of the uname command, and man page footers, among other places. Matching a SunOS 5.x release to its corresponding Solaris marketing name is simple: each Solaris release name includes its corresponding SunOS 5 minor version number. For example, Solaris 2.4 incorporated SunOS 5.4. There

1679-480: The United States Microsoft antitrust case in 1998, Intel vice president Steven McGeady testified that a senior executive at Microsoft told him in 1995 of his company's intention to "cut off Netscape's air supply", although a Microsoft attorney rejected McGeady's testimony as not credible. That same year, Netscape was acquired by America Online for 4.2 billion dollars. Internet Explorer became

1752-534: The User Choice Protection Driver for Windows 10 and 11 that prevent software changes to the default Browser, requiring users make the changes only through Windows settings. In May 2024, a Chrome extension released by Microsoft maintains Bing as the default search engine. SunOS SunOS is a Unix -branded operating system developed by Sun Microsystems for their workstation and server computer systems from 1982 until

1825-467: The Macworld Expo in San Francisco , Microsoft announced the release of the final version of Internet Explorer version 4.0 for Macintosh . Version 4 includes support for offline browsing , Dynamic HTML , a new faster Java virtual machine and Security Zones that allow users or administrators to limit access to certain types of web content depending on which zone (for example Intranet or Internet)

1898-644: The Mosaic Communications Corporation and created a new web browser named Mosaic Netscape . There are two ages of the Internet—before Mosaic, and after. The combination of Tim Berners-Lee's Web protocols, which provided connectivity, and Marc Andreesen's browser, which provided a great interface, proved explosive. In twenty-four months, the Web has gone from being unknown to absolutely ubiquitous. To resolve legal issues with NCSA,

1971-449: The VP8 version of WebM. Older versions of Firefox omitted H.264 due to it being a proprietary codec, but it was made available beginning in version 17 for Android and version 20 for Windows. Internet Explorer and Safari supported H.264 exclusively on March 14, 2011 with Internet Explorer 9 , and on March 18, 2008 with Safari 3.1 . However, Theora and VP8 codecs could be manually installed on

2044-642: The ability to 'subscribe' to a website in favorites, where it would notify the user of an update. Stephen Reid of PC Pro noted in his review: But it was the Web-style view that surprised me so much on first using IE 4. This changes the way you look at Windows, with files and folders now acting like hyperlinks on a Web page; you move your cursor over them to select them, then single click to launch. Individual folders are viewed as Web pages, including My Computer and Control Panel, and any folder you wish can be customised with your choice of background. Active Desktop

2117-449: The basic SVG feature set, and partial HTML video support, among other new features. It dropped support for Windows XP , and only ran on Windows Vista , Windows 7 , and Windows Phone 7 . The company later released Internet Explorer 10 along with Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 in 2012, and an update compatible with Windows 7 followed in 2013. This version dropped Vista and Phone 7 support. The release preview of Internet Explorer 11

2190-403: The browser as a major upgrade over Internet Explorer 6 SP1. Microsoft released Internet Explorer 7 on October 18, 2006. It included tabbed browsing, a search bar, a phishing filter, and improved support for web standards (including full support for PNG ) — all features already long familiar to Opera and Firefox users. Microsoft distributed Internet Explorer 7 to genuine Windows users (WGA) as

2263-591: The browser with the highest usage share. Chrome had supported Windows XP until the end of 2015. By 2017 usage shares of Opera, Firefox and Internet Explorer fell well below 5% each, while Google Chrome had expanded to over 60% worldwide. On May 25, 2017, Andreas Gal , former Mozilla CTO , publicly announced that Google Chrome won the Second Browser War. Due to Google Chrome's success, in December 2018, Microsoft announced that they would be building

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2336-481: The companies' market share. During these releases, it was common for web designers to display "best viewed in Netscape" or "best viewed in Internet Explorer" logos. These images often identified a specific browser and commonly linked to a source from which the stated browser could be downloaded. These logos generally recognized the divergence between the standards supported by the browsers and signified which browser

2409-594: The company was renamed Netscape Communications Corporation, and the browser Netscape Navigator . The Netscape browser improved Mosaic's usability and reliability and was able to display pages as they loaded. By 1995, helped by the fact that it was free for non-commercial use, the browser dominated the emerging World Wide Web. Other browsers launched during 1994 included IBM Web Explorer , Navipress , SlipKnot , MacWeb , and Browse. While Netscape faced new competition from OmniWeb , Eolas WebRouser, UdiWWW , and Microsoft's Internet Explorer 1.0 , it continued to dominate

2482-414: The content is coming from. At the same event, Apple announced the release of Mac OS 8 .1, which would be bundled with IE4. At the following year's San Francisco Macworld Expo on January 9, 1999, Microsoft announced the release of Internet Explorer 4.5 Macintosh Edition . This new version dropped 68K processor support, introduced Form AutoFill, Print Preview, and Page Holder pane, which allowed user to hold

2555-519: The default browser. At this time, many new computer purchasers had never extensively used a web browser before. Consequently, the buyer did not have anything else to compare with and little motivation to consider alternatives; any difference in browser features or ergonomics paled in comparison with the set of abilities they had gained with access to the Internet and the World Wide Web. During

2628-410: The desktop versions. Given the popularity of WebKit for mobile browsers, Opera Software discontinued its Presto engine upon the release of Opera 15 on July 2, 2013. The Opera 12 series of browsers were the last to use Presto with its successors using WebKit instead. In 2015, Microsoft discontinued the production of newer versions of Internet Explorer. By this point, Chrome overtook all other browsers as

2701-617: The development of the WWW, an Internet -based hypertext system, in 1989. Their studies led to the creation of the HyperText Transfer Protocol , which set the protocols for client-server communication . In 1990, he created the first web browser, WorldWideWeb , subsequently known as Nexus, and made it available for the NeXTstep Operating System, by NeXT . Other browsers had started to surface by

2774-522: The end of 1992, many of which were based on the Libwww library. These included MacWWW /Samba for the Mac and Unix browsers including Line Mode Browser , ViolaWWW , Erwise , and MidasWWW . These browsers were HTML viewers that needed third-party helpers to display multimedia content. In 1993, more browsers became available, including Cello , Lynx , tkWWW , and Mosaic . The most influential of these

2847-487: The fall of Netscape Navigator. However, this feat, which GeekSmack called the "dethroning of Microsoft and its Internet Explorer 7 browser", could largely be attributed to the fact that it came at a time when version 8 was replacing version 7 as the dominant Internet Explorer version; no more than two months later Internet Explorer 8 had established itself as the most popular browser again. Other major statistics, such as Net Applications , never reported any other browser having

2920-429: The features then unique to SunOS), System V , and Xenix . This would become System V Release 4 (SVR4). On September 4, 1991, Sun announced that its next major OS release would switch from its BSD-derived source base to one based on SVR4. Although the internal designation of this release would be SunOS 5 , from this point Sun began using the marketing name Solaris . The justification for this new "overbrand"

2993-499: The following few years. New features were routinely added, including Netscape's JavaScript (subsequently replicated by Microsoft as JScript ) and proprietary HTML tags such as < blink > (Navigator) and < marquee > (Internet Explorer). Internet Explorer 3 offered nearly identical services like its competitor, Netscape, offering scripting support and implemented the market's first commercial Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). On September 22, 1997, Internet Explorer 4

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3066-505: The introduction of HTML5 and CSS 3 , a new generation of browser wars began, this time adding extensive client-side scripting to the World Wide Web (WWW), and the more widespread use of smartphones and other mobile devices for browsing the web. These changes have ensured that browser battles continue among enthusiasts, while the average web user is less affected. Tim Berners-Lee along with his colleagues at CERN started

3139-458: The last standalone version of its browser. Future enhancements would be dependent on Windows Vista , which would include new tools such as the WPF and XAML to enable developers to build web applications. On February 15, 2005, Microsoft announced that Internet Explorer 7 would be available for Windows XP SP2 and later versions of Windows by mid-2005. The announcement introduced the new version of

3212-845: The market for 1995. By mid-1995, the World Wide Web had received a great deal of attention in popular culture and the mass media . Netscape Navigator was the most widely used web browser and Microsoft had licensed Mosaic to create Internet Explorer 1.0 , which had released with Microsoft Windows 95 Plus! on August 24, 1995. Unlike Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer 1.0 was available to all Windows users free of charge, including commercial companies. Other companies later followed suit and released their browsers free of charge. Netscape Navigator and competitor products like InternetWorks, Quarterdeck Browser, InterAp , and WinTapestry were bundled with other applications to full Internet suites . New versions of Internet Explorer (IE) and Netscape (branded as Netscape Communicator ) were released often over

3285-646: The mid-1990s. The SunOS name is usually only used to refer to versions 1.0 to 4.1.4, which were based on BSD , while versions 5.0 and later are based on UNIX System V Release 4 and are marketed under the brand name Solaris . SunOS 1 only supported the Sun-2 series systems, including Sun-1 systems upgraded with Sun-2 ( 68010 ) CPU boards. SunOS 2 supported Sun-2 and Sun-3 ( 68020 ) series systems. SunOS 4 supported Sun-2 (until release 4.0.3), Sun-3 (until 4.1.1), Sun386i (4.0, 4.0.1 and 4.0.2 only) and Sun-4 ( SPARC ) architectures. Although SunOS 4

3358-418: The new dominant browser, attaining a peak of about 96% of the web browser usage share in 2001. At the start of Netscape Navigator's decline, Netscape open-sourced its browser code and later entrusted it to the newly formed non-profit Mozilla Foundation — a primarily community-driven project to create a successor to Netscape. Development continued for several years with little widespread adoption until

3431-448: The other. While Netscape had accrued about 75% of the market share within four months of its release, as a relatively small company deriving the great bulk of its income from what was essentially a single product (Navigator and its derivatives), it was financially vulnerable. Microsoft's resources allowed them to make Internet Explorer available without charge, as the revenues from Windows were used to fund its development and marketing. As

3504-416: The poor performance of Flash on Android devices. HTML4 and CSS2 were the standard in most browsers in 2006. However, new features being added to browsers from HTML5 and CSS3 specifications were quickly making their mark by 2010, especially in the emerging mobile browser market where new ways of animating and rendering for various screen sizes were to become the norm. Accessibility would also become

3577-400: The release of the beta for Mac OS X and Linux, the market share had increased rapidly. During December 2009 and January 2010, StatCounter reported that its statistics indicated that Firefox 3.5 was the most popular browser when counting individual browser versions, passing Internet Explorer 7 and 8 by a small margin. This was the first time a browser surpassed the Internet Explorer since

3650-419: The same time, Net Applications reported Internet Explorer firmly in first place, with Google Chrome almost overtaking Firefox as the second. In 2012, responding to Chrome's popularity, Apple discontinued Safari for Windows, making it exclusively available on OS X . The concept of rapid releases established by Google Chrome prompted Mozilla to do the same for its Firefox browser. On June 21, 2011, Firefox 5.0

3723-512: The web browser and retrieve element values. Events from the WebBrowser control can also be captured. MSHTML functionality becomes available by connecting the file mshtml.dll to the software project. A Browser Helper Object ( BHO ) is a DLL module designed as a plugin for Internet Explorer 4.0, and provides added functionality. Most BHOs are loaded once by each new instance of Internet Explorer. IE4 supported 68k Macs, although this

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3796-433: Was 4.1.4 (Solaris 1.1.2) in 1994. The sun4 , sun4c and sun4m architectures were supported in 4.1.4; sun4d was not supported. Sun continued to ship SunOS 4.1.3 and 4.1.4 until December 27, 1998; they were supported until September 30, 2003. In 1987, AT&T Corporation and Sun announced that they were collaborating on a project to merge the most popular Unix flavors on the market at that time: BSD (including many of

3869-486: Was Mosaic, a multi-platform browser developed at National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). By October 1994, Mosaic was "well on its way to becoming the world's standard interface", according to Gary Wolfe of Wired . Several companies licensed Mosaic to create their commercial browsers, such as AirMosaic , Quarterdeck Mosaic , and Spyglass Mosaic. One of the Mosaic developers, Marc Andreessen , co-founded

3942-415: Was an optional feature included with Internet Explorer 4, which provided several updated shell features for older versions of Microsoft Windows . The Windows Desktop Update also added the ability to create desk-bands like the quicklaunch bar. It also updated the Windows file manager, explorer.exe (also a shell), to be more modular and extensible. MSHTML (Trident) was a layout engine introduced with IE4. It

4015-450: Was available or included for these versions: If it is not possible to upgrade to 128-bit, then 40-bit (SGC) is standard. Mac OS: Browser war A browser war is a competition for dominance in the usage share of web browsers . The " first browser war " (1995–2001) consisted of Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator , and the " second browser war " (2004-2017) between Internet Explorer, Firefox , and Google Chrome . With

4088-457: Was designed as a software component to allow software developers to easily add web browsing functionality to their own applications. It presents a COM interface for accessing and editing web pages in any COM-supported environment, like C++ and .NET . For instance, the WebBrowser control can be added to a C++ program and MSHTML can then be used to access the page currently displayed in

4161-546: Was discontinuing Internet Explorer on the Mac platform, and on June 6, 2007, Apple released a beta version of Safari for Microsoft Windows. On April 29, 2010, Steve Jobs wrote an open letter regarding his Thoughts on Flash , and the place it would hold on Apple's iOS devices and web browsers. Web developers were tasked with updating their web sites to be mobile-friendly, and while many disagreed with Steve Jobs 's assessment on Adobe Flash , history would soon prove his point with

4234-653: Was dropped in Internet Explorer 4.5. For Windows, 16MB of RAM, 11MB of disk space (minimum for install). The 16-bit version required a 486, 12 MB of RAM (or 16 MB for Java support), and 25 MB of disk space. System Requirements for initial release of 4.0 for Mac: IE 4.5 did not support 68k Macs. Internet Explorer 4 was the first version of the browser to support TLS 1.0. Internet Explorer 4 supported 40-bit and later 128-bit encryption through an add-on, using Server Gated Cryptography (SGC). A 256-bit encryption would not become available in IE for nearly 10 years. 128-bit encryption

4307-492: Was intended to be the first release to fully support Sun's new SPARC processor, there was also a SunOS 3.2 release with preliminary support for Sun-4 systems. SunOS 4.1.2 introduced support for Sun's first sun4m -architecture multiprocessor machines (the SPARCserver 600MP series); since it had only a single lock for the kernel, only one CPU at a time could execute in the kernel. The last release of SunOS 4

4380-429: Was released on February 15, 2012. In April 2012, Google browsers (Chrome and Android) became the most used browsers on Wikimedia Foundation sites. By May 21, 2012, StatCounter reported Chrome narrowly overtaking Internet Explorer as the most used browser in the world. However, the market share between Internet Explorer and Chrome meant that Internet Explorer was slightly ahead of Chrome on weekdays up until July 4. At

4453-521: Was released on September 17, 2013. It supported the same desktops as its predecessor. Starting in 2015 with the release of Windows 10 , Microsoft shifted from Internet Explorer to Microsoft Edge (Commonly referred to as Edge). However, the new browser had failed to capture much popularity, thus Microsoft Edge switched from its own browser engine, EdgeHTML , to Chromium's Blink engine in 2020 for all platforms except for iOS , where it kept relying on WebKit due to platform restrictions. Opera had been

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4526-441: Was released to the public on September 22, 1997, and deepened the level of integration between the web browser and the underlying operating system. Installing version 4 and choosing " Windows Desktop Update " would result in the traditional Windows Explorer being replaced by a version more akin to a web browser interface, as well as the Windows desktop itself being web-enabled via Active Desktop . The integration with Windows, however,

4599-462: Was released, IE4.x had dropped to 7% market share and IE5 had increased to 80%. IE4 market share dropped under 1% by 2004. Internet Explorer 4 is no longer available for download from Microsoft. However, archived versions of the software can be found on various websites. The Internet Explorer 4.0 Platform Preview was released in April 1997, and Platform Preview 2.0 in July that year. Internet Explorer 4

4672-425: Was released. Later that year, a version for HP-UX was released. IE4 came with Active Desktop , Windows Desktop Update , Channels , Frontpage Express , Netmeeting , NetShow , Web Publishing Wizard, Microsoft Chat 2.0 and Progressive Networks RealPlayer . Outlook Express 4 replaced Internet Mail and News . Other new features including Dynamic HTML , inline PNG , Favicons , a parental rating system, and

4745-490: Was released. The release party in San Francisco featured a ten-foot-tall letter "e" logo. Netscape employees showing up to work the following morning found the logo on their front lawn, paired with greeting card signed "Best wishes, the IE team". The Netscape employees promptly knocked it over and set a giant figure of their Mozilla dinosaur mascot atop it, holding a sign reading "Netscape 72, Microsoft 18", referencing

4818-489: Was replaced with Outlook Express , and Microsoft Chat and an improved NetMeeting were also included. Version 4.5 (only for Mac) dropped support for 68k Macs, but offered new features such as easier 128-bit encryption. The last non-Mac version was 4.0 Service Pack 2. Uninstalling IE4 became the subject of concern to some users and was a point of contention in later lawsuits (see Removal of Internet Explorer and United States v. Microsoft Corp. .) On January 6, 1998, at

4891-416: Was subject to numerous packaging criticisms (see United States v. Microsoft Corp. ). This option was no longer available with the installers for later versions of Internet Explorer but was not removed from the system if already installed. Internet Explorer 4 introduced support for Group Policy , allowing companies to configure and lock down many aspects of the browser's configuration. Internet Mail and News

4964-506: Was that it encompassed not only SunOS, but also the OpenWindows desktop environment and Open Network Computing (ONC) functionality. Even though the new SVR4-based OS was not expected to ship in volume until the following year, Sun immediately began using the new Solaris name to refer to the currently shipping SunOS 4 release (also including OpenWindows). Thus SunOS 4.1.1 was rebranded Solaris 1.0 ; SunOS 5.0 would be considered

5037-1119: Was the WHATWG , a working group devoted to the fast creation of new standard definitions that would be submitted to the W3C for approval. The growing number of device/browser combinations in use, legally-mandated web accessibility , as well as the expansion of expected web functionality to essentially require DOM and scripting abilities, including AJAX , made web standards of increasing importance during this era. Instead of advertising their proprietary extensions, browser developers began to market their software based on how closely it adhered to standards. On December 28, 2007, Netscape announced that support for its Mozilla-derived Netscape Navigator would be discontinued on February 1, 2008, suggesting its users migrate to Mozilla Firefox. However, on January 28, 2008, Netscape announced that support would be extended to March 1, 2008, and mentioned Flock alongside Firefox as alternatives to its users. In 2003, Microsoft announced that Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 would be

5110-472: Was the 3rd most used web browser having 4.46% as market share. In 2023, Internet Explorer was permanently disabled by Microsoft on most versions of Windows 10. As of 2023, Microsoft Edge has been noted to promote itself when visiting or searching for Google Chrome . Ignoring user settings, links from Windows integrated features, such as widgets , open in Edge. In February 2024, Microsoft silently released

5183-577: Was the first Windows browser to pass the Acid2 test. Opera Mini , a mobile browser, has a significant mobile market share. Multiple ports, such as Opera 8.5 for the Nintendo DS and Opera 9 for the Wii , were also released. On October 24, 2006, Mozilla released Mozilla Firefox 2 . It included the ability to reopen recently closed tabs, a session restore feature to resume work where it had been left after

5256-522: Was the first rapid release for this browser, finished a mere six weeks after the previous edition. Mozilla created four more whole-number versions throughout the year, finishing with Firefox 9 on December 20, 2011. For those desiring long-term support , Mozilla made an Extended Support Release (ESR) version of Firefox 10 on January 31, 2012. Contrary to the regular version, a Firefox ESR received regular security updates plus occasional new features and performance updates for approximately one year, after which

5329-460: Was used for testing the pages. In response, supporters of the principle that websites should be compliant with World Wide Web Consortium standards and hence viewable with any browser started the "Viewable with Any Browser" campaign, which employed its logo similar to the partisan ones. Most mainstream websites, however, specified one of Netscape or Internet Explorer as their preferred browser while making some attempt to support minimal functionality on

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