Comment by PopAlongKid
1 day ago
I was inspired by this comment to install Netscape 7.02 from my installer archive.[0] It too has a logo with meteors, but it is circle-shaped instead of square, and the meteors follow a more winding path from top to bottom.
Interestingly, when I first tried to install, it said something like "A version of Netscape is detected already running", which is because as you state Firefox was based on Netscape code. Here is the "About" description:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.2; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02
[0] I tried earlier versions, but they all wanted to download the full install from an FTP site that is no longer responding.
I am a new-generation user, and I'm curious whether "Netscape" can be installed on modern computers. If it can, how would it perform when accessing modern websites? I really want to know. Thank you again for sharing.
The version I installed was under an up-to-date version of Windows 10.
It works OK for http web sites, but for https, it pops up an alert:
Netscape 7.0 and s.yimg.com cannot communicate securely because they have no common encryption algorithms.
(this was for the Yahoo! page, it's the same message for other sites as well). I haven't tried anything else.
I also haven't tried (and don't plan to) using the bundled email client, which was the precursor to Thunderbird.