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This is no big deal. Netscape had its day, and broke new ground, but it's an irrelevence now.
What we need now is to try and do something to break the hysteria around the over-rated Firefox. (Note some of the preceding comments, for example!) People need to be aware that Opera is a better alternative, and had many of FF's feature long before. Still does some of them better even now.
Admittedly Opera also came after NN, of course. But we can't live in the past forever (otherwise we'd all still be using Mosaic or something), nor should we swallow the hype and run with the brainwashed (ie: the FireFox fanatics).
I always loved this browser. This is terrible news.
I can't believe your giving up. Netscape has always been my favorite browser tied with Safari. I will miss it very much. :(
Wow. is all I can say. I started my internet life using Netscape back in 1994. I think Jay Garcia has spent his entire life answering stupid questions from users like me. I really hated to stop using Netscape but it was just not the best browser available for a long time and obviously just got relegated to the dust bin.
RIP Netscape.
You misspelled "reins." It is not "handing the reigns," it's "handing the reins."
Yes, thanks guys for taking care of this. Much appreciated :)
I worked on two editions of the Netscape Browser, and remember it fondly. Even today, there are things in the NS codebase that have never been replicated elsewhere. So answer me one last question - will AOL open the NS codebase before the team is disbanded? A little tri-license love, maybe?
Yes, sad to hear about the official end of support for what can only be described as a legend. But it's not the end! Mozilla picked up the pieces long ago with Firefox (both Netscape 8 and 9 were built on top of Firefox).
I think the advice to go get Firefox (www.firefox.com) is incredibly sound, and I only add "go get Flock - www.flock.com" as an alternative. Flock is built on top of Firefox, just like NS 8.x and 9 were, and has compelling features that will appeal to social network users (the facebook and myspace, etc crowd) and folks who like to consume and share media, blog, and upload photos.
Firefox is great, and you should check it out for a stable, secure browser. Flock is also great, and you should check it out if you want built-in social features in your stable, secure mozilla-based browser.
Goodnight Netscape - and thanks for all the code.
I cannot believe that this is going to be the end of one of the most reliable of web browsers in terms of performance. This does not make sense how popularity rather than reliability tends to be the norm for developers. I mean Microsoft in the lead on Internet Explorer 7? It's insecure let alone buggy so I wouldn't even trust it at all on personal accounts i.e. banks, stores, etc.
At the last moment, I'd just reinstalled Firefox which still is slow to use if you wanted everything up to the minute, although my impression is, it's still buggy and unpredictable at times. Having said that, I put that over Internet Explorer in 2nd place behind Netscape, in terms of overall performance.
One final thought is, I think they made a big mistake in scrapping the browser. Despite the politics behind such a ludicrous decision, until they improve the Firefox browser to be in line with the same performance as Netscape, I'll stick with what I got when common sense prevails.
I used to be a big user and promoter of Netscape back in the mid-90's,
I'm glad that AOL atleast gave the Mozilla foundation money and that helped start the Firebird/fox dev which was great, after Firefox got popular it seemed pointless to just keep trying to rebrand the gecko engine for use with Netscape.
Instead Netscape should have just gave a version to download that had a netscape toolbar similar to what Google do now,
Oh well, its a shame to see the product of one of the real first dot com companys to finally be shut-down, but at this stage there was no point keeping it alive
Sorry to see it end this way. There could have really been some cool things done had the brand not been left to rot. Fortunately we have the wonderful Firefox to move us forward!
Thanks for the Good Times Netscape
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netscape 9 source code
you should release the netscape 9 source code so others can continue its secuity updates
I've used Netscape since 1994 and have been a satisfied customer. I'm one of the people that actually bought Netscape on disk. Over the years this graphic designer had to learn how to do web design to stay in business and be competitive. Netscape was always compliant unlike IE. Here goes an old friend and i will mourn the loss.
The browser survives that makes everyone design around it's eccentricities and the one that always worked goes away. Life in the 21st century
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With this news, I guess it will be Firefox and Flock for me now.