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July 7, 2003 9:10 AM PDT
Netscape lives on for Mac OS 9
Last week we noted that for all intents and purposes, Netscape (in its various forms) is no longer a developed product for Mac OS 9.
Mozilla dropped OS 9 support after version 1.2.1. Netscape 7.1 is built on Mozilla 1.4, therefore, will not work on 9. Netscape 7.0.2 or Mozilla 1.3.1 are the final OS 9 compatible versions of these browsers.
However, one programmer has taken it upon himself to continue producing Classic revisions of the browser.
A new application called WaMCom (Web and Mail Communicator) is built against the Mozilla 1.3.1 sources. One MacFixIt reader writes "This version is at least twice as fast as Netscape 7.0.2 and for the past 3 days I have been doing everything I can to crash it... no 'luck' so far.
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