NetscapeA commercial web browser company — Navigator defined the early consumer web.'s demise marked the end of the browser that launched the commercial web and the browser wars. MozillaThe organization behind Firefox — advocates open web standards and internet privacy. FirefoxMozilla's open-source browser — championed web standards and challenged Internet Explorer's dominance. carried its codebase forward, but the NetscapeA commercial web browser company — Navigator defined the early consumer web. brand — once synonymous with the internet — faded as IEInternet Explorer — Microsoft's browser that dominated the web in the 1990s and 2000s. and later ChromeGoogle's web browser — built on Chromium and the most widely used browser worldwide. took over.

NetscapeA commercial web browser company — Navigator defined the early consumer web.'s shutdown bookended the first era of the browser wars.

It cemented FirefoxMozilla's open-source browser — championed web standards and challenged Internet Explorer's dominance./MozillaThe organization behind Firefox — advocates open web standards and internet privacy. as the heir to NetscapeA commercial web browser company — Navigator defined the early consumer web.'s open-web mission.