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Netscape

• Developer: Netscape Communications
• Development Status: Discontinued
• Released: 1994
• Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux, Unix
• Type: Browser
• Rendering Engine: Gecko (main engine), Trident (optional in version 8)

Overview

Netscape Navigator was an influential early commercial web browser.

History

Netscape released its browser-suite source code in 1998, helping start the Mozilla project. AOL stopped developing and supporting Netscape browsers in 2008, while Mozilla and Firefox continued as separate projects.

User-Agent Examples

Windows

# Netscape 6
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; de-DE; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1

# Netscape on Windows ME
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8pre) Gecko/20071015 Firefox/2.0.0.7 Navigator/9.0

# Netscape on Windows 2000
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050519 Netscape/8.0.1

Code Example

import { UAParser } from 'ua-parser-js';
import { BrowserName } from 'ua-parser-js/enums';

const parser = new UAParser();
const ua = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; de-DE; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1';

const browser = parser.setUA(ua).getBrowser();

console.log(browser);
// {name: "Netscape", version: "6.1", major: "6"}

console.log(browser.is(BrowserName.NETSCAPE));
// true