MediaBrowser (MediaBrowser.com, Inc.) was a

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branding company founded in 2000 by Mark C. Brown. They made specially branded versions of

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for various company brands and themes, including

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. On December 5, 2001, the company filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and shut down their website and branded web browsers due to company debts of $2.49 million and various unpaid loans.

Branding

The branding consisted of various brand images on the background, navigation buttons, splash screen and links to specific web pages that related to the brand of the company. MediaBrower also had a space for ads to display at the bottom of the web browser. MediaBrowser's MicroTron was also included in every MediaBrowser branding to display brand-related video content to the user.

Nintendo browsers

In late 2000,

partnered with MediaBrowser to make branded browsers of their new and upcoming video games. The first two browsers to be released were for the then-upcoming ''Pokémon Gold'' and ''Silver'' alongside '' Mario Tennis''. CD-ROM copies of the branded ''Gold'' and ''Silver'' browser were made available as bonuses for anyone who pre-ordered a copy of ''Pokémon Gold'' and ''Silver'' as a special promotion. Later in 2001, other browsers were released branded with other

games such as ''

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'' and '' Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask''. A ''

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'' branded browser was released as well. Later in 2001, the custom browsers were delisted from Nintendo's website for unspecified reasons, and the contents of the page were replaced with a message stating that a date for when the browsers would return was unknown alongside asking viewers to check the company's downloads page for updates.

System requirements

MediaBrowser's browsers required at least: *486 MHz processor * Internet Explorer 5.0 *

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6.4 *

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4.0 *RAM: 32MB *Free disk space: 5MB The browsers additionally required an active Internet connection, and they were only able to be run normally from Windows versions 95 to XP.

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is required to run the browsers in later Windows versions starting with

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. Registration on MediaBrowser's website was additionally required before users were able to use the browsers. Due to the closure of MediaBrowser's website, usage of new installations of their browsers has been rendered impossible without modifying a value in Windows' Registry to bypass the registration requirement.

References

External links

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Braun Communication (successor company to MediaBrowser)
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Branding

Nintendo browsers

System requirements

See also

References

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