 | This articledoes notcite anysources. Please helpimprove this article byadding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged andremoved. Find sources: "Internet suite" – news ·newspapers ·books ·scholar ·JSTOR(October 2025) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
AnInternet suite is anInternet-relatedsoftware suite. Internet suites usually include aweb browser,e-mail client (often with anews client andaddress book),download manager,HTML editor, and anIRC 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 oncompact disc. However, by the end of the firstbrowser 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 theMozilla Application Suite into separate projects: Firefox, Thunderbird, and Sunbird, but Internet suite development continued withSeamonkey, which is still active under the Mozilla umbrella. A further cause of depression in the diversity of Internet suites was the rise ofAjax-based web applications (webmail, for example) which replicated most functions of theirdesktop 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.