RIP: Netscape Navigator
Posted February 24th, 2008 by Mihnea Boiangiu
The web browser pioneer, Netscape Navigator was sentenced to die. AOL announced that the official support for Netscape Navigator will be stopped starting from March 1st. I remember myself when I first used the Internet. Netscape was the favorite browser back then. Although, the bad marketing and the strong competitor Internet Explorer have lowered its market share.
Nowadays, Netscape has only 0.61% of the market. When its decline was obvious, the company opened its source code, making it available for developers. So, the Mozilla project appeared and today’s popular Firefox. In spite of being acquired by AOL in 1998, Netscape remained in obscurity. It had troubles with security patches and bug fixes, so the web surfers forgot it.
If you still planing to use Netscape Navigator, you should perhaps switch to Firefox and add an extension for Netscape. For now I will just say “RIP Netscape Navigator…”
via Gearater
