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    America Online said Thursday that it plans to release a new version of its Netscape Web browser this summer, though the effort does not appear to signal a return to major browser development work for the company.

  • Microsoft: We gain nothing from Firefox flaws

    Microsoft claims it has not gained anything from the recent spate of security flaws that have been discovered in Firefox, even though the open source browser is an arch rival to the software giant's Internet Explorer.

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    Netscape these days survives as a desolate outpost in the vast AOL Time Warner empire, something akin to banishment to Irkutsk. But what if history had a different twist?

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    AOL Time Warner has released a version of its Netscape browser that lets Web surfers suppress pop-up ads, a further sign of declining fortunes for a widely hated marketing format.

  • Browser battles: the state of the browser market

    IE has the majority of the world's browser share, but there's still some competition. ZDNet Australia takes a look at the issues in the browser war, along with reviews of the major competitors.

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