Netscape next month is expected to release a test version of a Web browser designed to resist phishing schemes, taking aim at recent security vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Web browser.
Netscape, a unit of Time Warner subsidiary America Online, has been recharging its browser activity in recent months, prodded by the success of its open-source spin-off, the Mozilla Foundation, and by the prospects of increased revenue through browser-based search queries.
On Feb. 17, Netscape is expected to release both the second test, or "beta," version of Netscape 8 and a redesigned Netscape.com portal site.
Netscape--founded 10 years ago by the creators of the pioneering Mosaic browser--once ruled the roost of the browser world with better than 80 percent of the market. But Microsoft's Internet Explorer wrested the market away and now enjoys better than 90 percent usage worldwide, according to most surveys.
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