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Netscape Navigator, the world's first commercial web browser and the launch pad of the Internet boom, will be pulled off life support Feb. 1 after a 13-year run. (...) People will still be able to download and use the Netscape browser indefinitely, but AOL will stop releasing security and other updates on Feb. 1.

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ITWorldCanada, April 25
Marc Andreessen looks back on Mosaic's early days

Marc Andreessen had no idea that the Mosaic browser he co-developed would kick off the Web revolution and become such an enduring and important piece of software. (...) Mosaic, created by Andreessen and Eric Bina at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was "a renegade academic research project" aimed at universities and government contractors, he said.

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source: itWorldCanada, Aug 28, 2008

Microsoft on Monday described some new privacy features that will come with IE8, the next release of its browser. The features are designed to make it easier for people to delete and control information about their Web browsing history. With InPrivate Browsing, one of the new features, a user launches a new InPrivate Browsing window to go online. When the users closes the window, IE doesn't store any cookies, passwords, words typed into the address bar, search queries, temporary Internet files or form data from the browsing session.

Another new feature aims to address a shortcoming in the way the current version of IE lets people delete their browsing history. When a user deletes their browsing history today, they also get rid of cookies that are used to save preferences tied to Web sites that they might visit often. (...)

Microsoft is expected to release another beta of IE8 this month and release the final code before the end of this year.

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