Editing Internet suite

{{Short description|Internet-interfacing computer software bundle}}
An '''Internet suite''' is an [[Internet]]-related [[software suite]]. Internet suites usually include a [[web browser]], [[e-mail client]] (often with a [[news client]] and [[address book]]), [[download manager]], [[HTML editor]], and an [[Internet Relay Chat|IRC client]].

The diversity of Internet suite offerings was greatest in the mid-1990s, when proprietary web browser vendors felt it more profitable to sell entire retail suites of applications on [[compact disc]]. However, by the end of the first [[Browser wars|browser war]], the Internet suite market dwindled to one or two competitors every few years. In reaction, alternative routes of profit or funding were sought. [[Opera Software]], for example, moved away from offering the Opera Internet suite with embedded advertisements to a completely ad-free product. Mozilla (spun out of Netscape) began to separate the [[Mozilla Application Suite]] into separate projects: Firefox, Thunderbird, and Sunbird, but Internet suite development continued with [[Seamonkey (software)|Seamonkey]], which is still active under the Mozilla umbrella. A further cause of depression in the diversity of Internet suites was the rise of [[Ajax (programming)|Ajax]]-based web applications ([[webmail]], for example) which replicated most functions of their [[Desktop software|desktop client]] equivalents while offering cross-platform portability through web browsers, portability not offered as easily by desktop clients inside Internet suites and outside web browsers.

==Examples==
*[[Arachne (web browser)|Arachne]]
*[[Cyberdog]]
*[[Mozilla Application Suite]] and [[SeaMonkey|SeaMonkey internet suite]]
*[[Gnuzilla]]
*[[List of KDE applications#Internet|K Desktop Environment]]
*[[MSN Explorer]]
*[[Netscape Communicator]]
*[[Netscape (web browser)|Netscape]]
*[[Opera (web browser)|Opera]] ([[Features of the Opera web browser#Legacy features|version 12.18 and earlier]])
*[[Vivaldi (web browser)|Vivaldi]]

==See also==
*[[Comparison of web browsers]]

==References==
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