I have used it since the late 1990s. Like it. Still do. Dislike Internet Explorer. So what do I do? How do you get Firefox? Is it free like Netscape? I hate it when they do stuff like this.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Firefox is a stand alone browser.
It should automatically import your bookmarks from Netscape. If it doesn’t, ping me back, and I’ll dig out an old copy of Netscape and walk you through the process.
Or, if you are in the mood for adventure, try SeaMonkey. It’s the complete suite to replace Mozilla. http://www.seamonkey-project.org/
Once you download Firefox, I recommend that you download a couple of plug ins - Cookiesafe and Flashblock will make your browsing safer and more enjoyable.
Netscape is just Mozilla repackaged with more bloat. Sea Monkey is almost exactly like Netscape. Firefox is the trimmed down version with a browser only. And Firefox has way less fine tunning options. Yet it is more developed in terms of keeping up with things. One of the most annoying things about firefox is that its cookie control is far inferior, if not just about impossible to control in an easy way. Once you block a site then it is a real hassle to unblock it. SeaMonkey makes that easy.
Netscape is just Mozilla repackaged with more bloat. Sea Monkey is almost exactly like Netscape. Firefox is the trimmed down version with a browser only. And Firefox has way less fine tunning options. Yet it is more developed in terms of keeping up with things. One of the most annoying things about firefox is that its cookie control is far inferior, if not just about impossible to control in an easy way. Once you block a site then it is a real hassle to unblock it. SeaMonkey makes that easy.
http://www.mozilla.org/products/
Firefox is free, ans as goldstategop said, can be plucked from firefox.com .
To get a little more technical, Firefox is based on the Mozilla codebase. It's the same browser under the hood, but with some different styling.
A little history is in order.
The first point-and-click Web browser was Mosaic. When Mark Andreesen went into the private sector, he called his newer, better browser Mozilla -- as in Mosaic + Godzilla. It became Netscape.
Netscape was the first browser for anyone who discovered the Web in 1995, and remained the most popular browser for several years after. But you can't out-compete a free product that's pre-installed on Windows, so IE pulled ahead.
So Netscape tried to reinvent itself. No longer a browser company -- though, actually, they made most of their money off their server software -- they tried to become a Web hub. That went reasonably well, but not spectacularly. So AOL used all that pretend money they had due to their inflated stock price, and bought Netscape.
Provider/hub/browser. AOL/Netscape vs. MSN/IE. That was the competitive landscape. It just didn't work out that way.
So AOL decided to make the Netscape code base open-source. They went back to the old Mozilla name, and just put it out there. Anyone, or any group of anyones, could take that code and make a browser out of it. Firefox did the most popular, and IMHO best, version of that.
There was no longer a place for the Netscape browser as a commercial concern, when volunteers were doing a better job. Pulling the plug on it is past due.