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The Mozilla Foundation has unveiled the most complete preview version yet of its stand-alone e-mail application. The release comes only weeks after the launch of its Firefox browser version 1.0, and is part of the open source software project's continuing efforts to chip away market share from Microsoft's dominate Internet Explorer (IE).

America Online (AOL) on Tuesday released a preview version of a new Netscape Web browser that is based on the open-source Firefox Web browser, but also supports Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) browser engine.

Firefox 1.0 appears to have sparked new activity in the Web browser market.

Although Microsoft still dominates the Web browser space, its Internet Explorer continues to lose market share to open-source rival Mozilla.

The success of alternative browsers such as Mozilla Foundation's Firefox may ultimately have an unexpected side effect, causing Microsoft to be more aggressive in leveraging its dominance of Internet client software, said Marc Andreessen, one of the founders of the browser company that Microsoft beat out in the late 1990s, Netscape Communications.

A slight drop in the usage of Microsoft Internet Explorer and a new release of the open-source-based Netscape browser shows that Microsoft's dominance of the browser market is not complete - and may be slipping.

After being written off by industry observers last year, America Online's browser unit showed signs of life Tuesday as it released an update to its Netscape Web browser.

A series of highly publicized security vulnerabilities found in Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser may be having an effect on the browser's market share, according to data compiled by WebSideStory, a Web metrics company. Over the last month, Internet Explorer's share of the browser market dropped by 1 percent, the first noticeable decline since WebSideStory began tracking the browser market in late 1999.

The Netscape Web browser may not be dead after all. After being written off by industry observers last year, America Online (AOL) plans to release an update to the Netscape Internet software package as early as next month.

The death knell is sounding for the Netscape browser, industry observers said, following America Online Inc.'s decision Tuesday to lay off about 50 Netscape software developers and end development work on the Mozilla browser technology.

Much like the "Star Wars" movies, the browser wars have returned for a whole new era of battle, as illustrated Wednesday by the release of Netscape Communications' Netscape 7.0 preview browser.