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Rest in Peace, Netscape

Started by Al Billings · 11 months ago

The Netscape Blog has officially announced today the end of an era. As of February 1, 2008, there will be no further releases of Netscape from AOL and it sounds like the small team working on it there has been closed down. That means no security updates for Netscape users and no update to Gecko ... Continue reading »

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  • Daniel

    1 year ago

    I so knew this was going to come.

    So after Netscape 4 and Netscape 7 which still creates headaches for webdesigners we now have another Version that will make webdesinger's life harder in 3 years and beyond.

    What I think is the worst thing of all that they're still going to let people download NN 4 and all the other crappy versions of their browser.

    Even if Mozilla came out of Netscape. It just should be forbidden to download any Netscape browser. This is worse than Microsoft!
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  • Robin

    1 year ago

    Daniel, I don't think this is the problem you make it out to be. Yes, Netscape 4 is a nightmare, but it's such a nightmare that it's just not worth catering for. NN7 (well, 7.1+) is fairly easy to cope for if you need to, but in my experience the user numbers are so low as to again make it not worth bothering with. Beyond that (NS8,9) they're just Firefox 1.5/2 at the core so there's no extra burden in supporting them. Well, assuming you support Firefox :)

    As for being able to download them, well, if people who weren't developers were doing that then we'd see it in the stats, and we don't.
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  • Raúl Larenas

    1 year ago

    It's a pity the death of Netscape. It was my first web browser about 13 years ago, but that's life.

    Greetings from Quito - Ecuador

    Raúl Larenas M:. M:.
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