AOL To Discontinue Netscape Browser Development


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Who cares? Nobody even uses Netscape these days.

It's worth mentioning it because of the significance of its impact on the internet world.

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I think its about time they let this go. It's been around forever since the "NeoPlanet" days LOL. I also forgot about that too. But yeah. Firefox, Opera, and IE all have overtaken it.

RIP Nutscrape. :s

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Who cares? Nobody even uses Netscape these days.

Heh, you were a baby when this was the "Firefox" back in the days. This was actually the first browser I used to browse the net at high school. Mozilla came from Netscape and Firefox came from Netscape. Netscape was what started the browser wars.

I have'nt used Netscape since 2003 when as part of TAFE studies I had to use it (before the widespread of Firefox.

Yes, you are right, it is time to move on. Things change all the time. The "Netscape" of today is Firefox and that's what I am using for a few years.

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I think its about time they let this go. It's been around forever since the "NeoPlanet" days LOL. I also forgot about that too. But yeah. Firefox, Opera, and IE all have overtaken it.

RIP Nutscrape. :s

Neoplanet ftw!

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I actually find it more pleasant to use than firefox. Given that it has firefox at its core, do you think individuals will be able to install mozilla's security updates on Navigator once support stops (somehow)?

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Mozilla came from Netscape and Firefox came from Netscape. Netscape was what started the browser wars.

Slightly off; Mosaic came first, and was later renamed and improved to become Netscape Navigator. Microsoft then licensed Mosaic as the basis for IE, and they still use that basis today (check your About box). It was Microsoft who started the browser wars with the arrival of IE 2 in 1995; but they didn't take the lead until IE4 in 1997 when they became the first W3C compliant* browser (When I say compliant*, I mean that they were more faithful to the published specifications of the time, than Netscape was).

Mozilla was originally the internal codename for the Netscape Navigator project, as well as the name Netscape's mascot; and the Mozilla core we have today is a branch from the codebase for Netscape Communicator which was open sourced in 1998 and released as Mozilla 1.0 in 2002.

Incidentally, the browser wars between Microsoft and Netscape are the whole reason why IE is no longer compliant with W3C standards... The war caused a rush to be the first to get new features out, and that meant not waiting for W3C approval. When approval was not forthcoming, well, those features were already being used even though in many cases they proved harmful in the long run.

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I remember in my school, I was installing Netscape 6 on each Pc.

And it was uninstalled each time by other guys.

Then I've adopted opera, and it was certainly the best browser at this time.

I think version 6 of netscape is the reason of it's decline.

By the way , safari 3 for pc look promising ...

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AOL is a software Killer. Spinner, Winamp, now Netscape.

To be fair, Netscape's been dead a long time. AOL are just getting around to conducting the funeral. :p

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