AOL to Shut Down Netscape Support/Development

Kelson writes "After years of trying to figure out what to do with it, AOL is officially discontinuing the Netscape browser. In the four and a half years after they dismantled the development team and spun off the Mozilla Foundation as a lost cause, only to see Firefox take off, AOL has tried twice to reinvent Netscape. There was the chimera-like Netscape 8, which used both Mozilla's and IE's rendering engines, and just months ago they released Netscape 9, trying to ride the social networking wave. AOL will release security fixes through February 1, 2008, after which the browser will officially be dead. For the "nostalgic," they suggest using Firefox and installing a Netscape theme."

Comments

Re:I think I'm too young to care.

[everphilski]

11 years at the pace technology moves in this day and age is ancient history. Remember the operating system it was running on for most users - Windows 95. We've had 4 iterations since then. And the way Netscape went out, becoming a shitty browser, driving people to IE or other solutions - left a bad taste in people's mouths.

(I do remember... I was 15 in 1997, working for an ISP who installed Netscape as a default browser)