Netscape continued to develop both Netscape Navigator 3. The rivalry was compounded even further when Microsoft's browser team apparently dropped its massive IE logo off at Netscape's campus the night of Internet Explorer 4's launch.
The Netscape crew understandably took issue with the slight and toppled the giant IE logo over, placing its Mozilla dragon mascot atop it and holding a sign that read "Netscape 72 Microsoft In January , Netscape announced its intention to release the source code for Netscape Communicator to the public; a move that gave rise to the Mozilla Organization. Unfortunately for Netscape, this also had the effect of stalling development on its browser platform through much of that year, essentially giving Microsoft the lead it needed.
And that summer, Internet Explorer finally overtook Netscape as the most used browser, a mantle Netscape was never able to win back. The acquisition did nothing to spur development efforts though, and it wouldn't be until April of that preview versions of Netscape 6, based on Mozilla code, saw the light of day. A further two years later, Netscape 7 was released, serving as the last major build version to come from that source code.
Not long after, AOL shuttered the Netscape department and laid off most of the staff in , opting instead to continue development in-house with Mozilla's Firefox as its code base. The once proud web app was also re-branded as Netscape Browser and AOL eventually outsourced successive releases to Mercurial Communications, a Canadian software developer.
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