Netscape Navigator is no more

[Robert]

Those who have used the Internet for more than 2 years will remember the Netscape browser.

It was the first browser I used (at work). At one time it was used by over 90% of surfers, but this has slipped to just 0.6%. Most popular browser now is IE, with 80% of users.

 

Source

 

The browser that helped kick-start the commercial web is to cease development because of lack of users.

Netscape Navigator, now owned by AOL, will no longer be supported after 1 February 2008, the company has said.

 

In the mid-1990s the browser was used by more than 90% of the web population, but numbers have slipped to just 0.6%.

 

In particular, the browser has faced competition from Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE), which is now used by nearly 80% of all web users.

 

"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," said Tom Drapeau on the company's blog.

The problem is that Netscape sucks, particularly with its AOL-inspired bloat.

It won't be missed.

[Mooney]

I remember using Netscape Navigator. I left it behind forever when I left Dial-up, though.

[Reaper man]

I'm just hoping that AOL will be next to go, and I think it's going that way. When it does, I'll laugh.

[Explosive Misanthropy]

I think my mom has that at home. I know she has Dial up.....

 

She hates AOL.

[Wizard]

Ah yes, I remember it greatly. Firefox though has stepped up as a fine successor.

[Lucandrake]

lol I used to use the AoL browser then quickly switched to IE when I got comcast , only time I ever used netscape was in school and that sh!t blowed hardcore ass