End of an Era: Netscape Browser Dies
While internal groups within AOL have invested a great deal of time and energy in attempting to revive Netscape Navigator, these efforts have not been successful in gaining market share from Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Recently, support for the Netscape browser has been limited to a handful of engineers tasked with creating a skinned version of Firefox with a few extensions.
AOL's focus on transitioning to an ad-supported web business leaves little room for the size of investment needed to get the Netscape browser to a point many of its fans expect it to be. Given AOL's current business focus and the success the Mozilla Foundation has had in developing critically-acclaimed products, we feel it's the right time to end development of Netscape branded browsers, hand the reigns fully to Mozilla and encourage Netscape users to adopt Firefox.
Farewell, Netscape. It was the first browser we used. The king is dead. Long live the king.
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I never been a fan of netscape. God I still remember when i used in windows 95-98. I personally hated the fact that it took forever to download and forever to load. (hahaha taken the fact that the highest speed available at that time was 33.6kbps) Jesus the old days. oh well IE has done a lot of good work for me and I guess I never had an issue with it. |
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This is a sad day in internet history, a sad day indeed, yes I haven't used Netscape in a long time but back in the beginning I used Netscape, insisted on it as i have never been a fan of IE ever. |
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I used to use netscape back in the day but as IE got better and better I had no reason to. Plus They dont update security as quickly as microsoft gets those ie patches out. |
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Remember all you young-uns: Firefox, SeaMonkey, Camino and all the other Mozilla code derived browsers came from Netscape. |
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I remember being enthralled with Netscape circa 1993 when I had my 486. It sure beat Lynx or any other alternative. With the advent of win95, and IE, M$ used their place of privilege installing IE into the OS and squashed Netscape summarily. I had to laugh at the comments by the person who said IE patched security probs quicker, and the other guy who raved about IE as well. MS was told about serious security probs in Mar '04 in both OE and IE, that were still unpatched as of summer '07!! Brian Livingston among others, kept hammering it in their writings, to no apparent avail. Because Firefox is open source, I will say, that probs with it, are generally addressed much sooner than M$ addresses its probs.Firefox is eminently tweakable, customizable, etc with tons of add ons, extensions, themes, etc. A lot of features pioneered by FF were eventually adopted in IE7 by M$.I only use IE when I am on some computer that doesn't have FF and have no rights ot install FF on it. I would never entrust my security to M$.I am sad to see Netscape go, but feel that FF is more than ever, the browser to whom the torch has passed - altho' I do like Opera too. |
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