AirMosaic

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AirMosaic
AIR mosaic (Fg3 8).gif
A screenshot displaying an early web crawler search engine
Developer(s) SPRY
Initial release1994;28 years ago (1994)
Operating system Microsoft Windows [1]
Available inEnglish
Type web browser
License Proprietary/Commercial

AirMosaic was an early commercial web browser based on the NCSA Mosaic browser. [2]

Contents

The browser won Datamation's Best Product of the Year award for 1994. [3]

The AirMosaic browser was available as part of several packages: the AIR Series,[ citation needed ] Internet in a Box [2] [4] and Mosaic In A Box,[ citation needed ] and separately. [4] AirMosaic for Windows could also be downloaded as a demo, and then purchased over the Internet as a separate product. [3] [5]

Features

Although Mosaic required the user to install Win32s, AirMosaic offered the same feature set as Mosaic as well as several new ones like a configuration menu for not editing an INI file. [4]

Other features included:

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References

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  2. 1 2 Sink, Eric (15 April 2003). "Memoirs From the Browser Wars" . Retrieved 16 February 2011.
  3. 1 2 Leung, Deanna (7 February 1995). "Datamation awards SPRY'S AIR Mosaic as the best product of 1994". Business Wire. Retrieved 28 November 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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