What Netscape version do I have?

[peterinwa]

I recently downloaded the latest version, and while it's loading on my PC on the screen it says 7.0. But using this code:

navigator.appName + ", Version " + navigator.appVersion;

I get:

Netscape, Version 5.0 (Windows; en-US)

?

Thanks, Peter

[le_gber]

Hi peterinwa and welcome to webmasterworld [webmasterworld.com]

If you want to be sure of your browser version open it and click on help (at the top). You should have a link with 'about communicator', or 'about navigator'. It should tell you the exact version you've got whn you click on it.

If you look at the archive on netscape website [wp.netscape.com] you notice that they don't have any explicit version 5. I think that they skip directly to the version 6 to 'beat' IE in the race of 'I have the latest' browser because at the time NN6 was produce IE was at version 5.5.

Version 6 and 7 are graphically completely different from 4 and below and I think they're both based on the same program structure that's why even though they're 6 and 7 they kept the codename 5.

Leo

[DrDoc]

...and, both NN6 and NN7 are based on essentially the same Gecko version. The Mozilla version number can be very misleading, since it doesn't represent the version but the "generation".