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Netscape Finally Put Down
Stony Stevenson writes to point out that Netscape has finally reached end of line with the release of version 9.0.0.6. A pop-up will offer users the choice of switching to Firefox, Flock, or remaining with the dead browser, but no new updates will be released. "Nearly 14 years after the once mighty browser made its first desktop appearance as Mosaic Netscape 0.9, its disappearance comes as little surprise. Although Netscape accounted for more than 80 per cent of the browser market in 1995, the arrival of Microsoft's Internet Explorer in the same year brought stiff competition and surpassed Netscape within three years."
And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced.
But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird.
The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire
and thunder upon them. For the beast had been
reborn with its strength renewed, and the
followers of Mammon cowered in horror.
from The Book of Mozilla, 7:15
The headline: "Put Down" It's like they shot Barbaro. Netscape was not retired out of sympathy (empathy for those of you in Rio Linda) for the browser; The Old Blue N died of natural causes. May she rest in Bittorrent.
FairTax baby!
And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced.
But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird.
The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire
and thunder upon them. For the beast had been
reborn with its strength renewed, and the
followers of Mammon cowered in horror.
from The Book of Mozilla, 7:15
How many times is Netscape going to die?
"And there be unix which have made themselves unix for the kingdom of heaven's sake." - Matt. 19:12
Maybe the US government is sponsoring them. You need IE or Netscape to get a US visa. So if, say, you have a Mac or run Linux, then Netscape has a monopoly.
I’m old enough to remember 16K of memory being described as “whopping”
This reminds me, I wonder what Lycos is doing these days.
Can you be Even More Awesome?!
Horseshit! Are you saying that people eat animals?! We need to get this onto the front page of Slashdot, neigh, the Times!!! Is there a gallop poll regarding Japan's or the United States' horse meat consumption? And does it give you the trots?
For Barbaro's sake... the horse had a good run. Making hay from an article about web browsers is to saddle the issue with an agenda; please do not bridle our argument by being a horse's ass. This is a discussion about software, and to jockey animal rights into it is just putting the cart before the horse. So slow down there, cowboy... Reign it in. While I am sure you're chomping at the bit to get this kind of information out, I am fresh out of insensitive horse puns and we will have to put this discussion out to stud.
Polo!
FairTax baby!
Netscape deserves to DIE DIE DIE, for what they did to Mosaic.
step6: waterboard
Bye bye Netscape
Hmm, it also claims to require Adobe Acrobat Reader, even though there are about five billion other programs that are perfectly capable of viewing PDF files.
It saddens me how many people don't understand the concept of a file that can be opened in multiple programs. The other day I had a dreadful time trying to explain to someone that there isn't actually any difference between a "Notepad file" and an "Emacs file". (Can I blame Microsoft yet?)