In October 1998, Netscape Communicator 4.5 was released. It featured various functionality improvements, especially in the Mail and Newsgroups component, but did not update the browser core, whose functionality was essentially identical to that of version 4.08. One month later, Netscape Communications Corporation was bought by AOL. In November, work on Netscape 5.0 was canceled in favor of developing a completely new program from scratch.
In October 1998, Netscape Communicator 4.5 was released. It featured various functionality improvements, especially in the Mail and Newsgroups component but did not update the browser core, whose functionality was essentially identical to that of version 4.08. One month later, Netscape Communications Corp.oration was bought by AOL. ,In November, work on Netscape 5.0 was canceled in favor of developing a completely new program from scratch