Netscape Communicator is a suite of Internet software components, including Navigator (the Web browser), Messenger (the e-mail client), Collabra (the newsgroup client), and Composer (the Web editor). These four components are included in the standard edition of Communicator and can be accessed directly from the Netscape Component Bar.

Additional components are available by download from Netscape's Web site. These include Netcaster (Netscape's "push" broadcast tool) and Conference (a real-time multimedia communications tool).

Not only are there more "components" in this new Netscape release, but more people can take advantage of them. Netscape Communicator uses User Profiles to allow several people to have their own e-mail address, bookmarks and preferences in the same copy of Communicator.

In addition to these Help pages, you can consult Netscape's Reference Library (located in the Reference Library folder in the Sympatico folder on your hard drive) to find out more about Communicator.

How to:
install Netscape Communicator
setup Netscape Communicator

• Communicator 4.0 Handbook
• Netscape's FAQ site.