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Just thinking... The number of users that will use Firefox will go uuuuup, given the adding up of the users that use Netscape Browser (by name). That way, it seems to me that these are efforts to fulfil a wish for a more clear demarcation of the two fronts-IE users/non-IE users, with a clear growing in number of non-IE users. I think Opera waits its turn, also... Anyway, good luck !
Just want to say goodbye to an old friend. Netscape 2.0 was my first browser back in 1996.
I don't get it really. I don't see why it's so necessary to remove the Netscape brand, or why it should be replaced by the F-word: Firefox, Flock ... whatever.
The Netscape name has been classic. The original browser made IE look stupid and slow.
I was AGAINST the AOL purchase from the start: already forseeing the demise of Netscape in the picture. Is it SO NECESSARY to remove something that some of us have been endeared with, and even painfully cross browser programming for almost ten years. This near last browser 8.1 actually eliminated my need to enter all those stupid passwords that unnecessarily waste my time.
Most of us will now end up using the boring and tasteless Microsoft IE offering, since Firefox has NOT offered using the IE renderer, which unfortunately seems to always offer a better stylesheet rendering of pages. Netscape offered a compromise, something most computer people are too arrogant to accept
I hope all the AOL geniuses are happy: the same people that chose to compress my images, and make my pages look terrible, in order to save 1 second of download time.
Well maybe if you can't support the Netscape name, then maybe you should let someone else do it. No ... management wouldn't want to be embarrassed by some loser in Florida with a far far far higher math average. TRY ME ... YOU WILL LOSE!
I figure by now the AOL gurus, with their dying dial up product are now gloating in their upheaval of Netscape programmers, who probably wore their hair long and never wore those pathetic blue suits that should have burned along with red ties.
I say to hell wth all of you.
Support extended to March 1st - that is what Im waiting for! Very good decision.
Great news! This is what we all was waiting!
very good site!
this is so sad. i'm new to using netscape and so far it's the best.
if you are not going to keep netscape are you going to revert the email, or still force aol on those that still use netscape.
What is the point of me choosing FireFox or Flock if they are both owned by mozilla? I am not interested in the mozilla foundation and have uninstalled FireFox in my husbands laptop to feel better. I also had filtered them out! Completely blocking any products of mozilla! I had some respect for them when they didn't ruined NetScape! Now that they decided to "spam" by saying how late and great it is... I knew it was advertising! Switching to and mozilla based project I would refuse! I know their games. Netscape has been a trusted browser for me... Many, many years! I will continue to use NetScape until the execution of NetScape occurs by the mozilla who is the executioner. mozilla... You may have blinded many people to join your cold hearted corporation... But I am one customer who will support your enemy... MicroSoft's Internet Explorer! The true executioner of mozilla. I will support NetScape till the end! -NetScape user
Great for a granted month of support for those who need it.
Well, I had most browsers installed on the computer, so I will not need anything for migration (opera, firefox, and even the IE for those websites that simply fail to open if you don't have it!).
About Netscape's end, I can say that after Mosaic, I've grew with this browser, as well it did with the Internet. The story of Netscape shows was how politics of power on business can destroy even the most successful idea. Also, many big unfortunate mistakes such as becoming a pay-browser with the GOLD Netscape version (I think it was version 2 or 3, I don't remember exactly) in a decisive moment, with the introduction of Microsoft's IE, a very expensive mistake (wanting more money, even if honestly asking for it, may be the beginning of ruin, probably the biggest mistake was not exactly to pay, but to change the original idea of being a free browser, and not offering a free alternative to GOLD version). Also, it was not a good idea to sold it to AOL.
Anyway, Netscape will continue with it's successor, Firefox. And also it will fill most of the business students classrooms, because it shows clearly not only competition, but also about honesty & dishonesty, and how thousands of thousands of OEM's, etc can be so afraid of a company called Microsoft and its reprisals. All this will revolve the stomach of many of those students, and may they create more honest, healthy, sane & transparent companies. So I think Netscape will never die in the memory of those future CEO's.
I hope most of the Netscape crowd is at Mozilla's stuff, so they will not loose their jobs. I'm sure you will all find great new jobs.
So from a user's point of view, as I have already installed Firefox and Opera (a great and quick browser) even IE!, I will still keep using Netscape until I migrate to a new "64 squared" computer, so I'll bypass all the boxes with the messages telling us to migrate right now.
Fact => Those dinosaurs of the Internet, surely will never forget you, students of IT business surely will learn from you, and Firefox will continue your work on giving away good browsers. Now, its time for Jubilee, and to dedicate to more grateful tasks.
BTW, Have you ever thought of migrate to another thing? When I started with you as a browser I was a brilliant tech, now I'm totally hasted and stressed, and I migrated to education, so I'm back to school, and beginning a new career at my mid-age. Think on it, and switch to another thing if you want to.
A loooong time ago, I sent a message to Netscape offering my small user support and the vision to go Linux/Open Source, which probably you may remember, as we weren't as many people as we are now.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THESE GREAT YEARS OF BROWSING THE NET IN YOUR COMPANY.
And thank you very much for developing Mosaic and creating Netscape. You will occupy many pages in the history of the Internet (surely bigger than a second of glory). Now go in peace. I take off my hat to Netscape. But life will go on, as well as the Internet, browsers and so.
Cheers! You did a good job!
Well another feather in the hat of AOL turns out to be Vulture feathers. Hopefully the next announcement will be the end of AOL....The Digital Grim Reaper
Where can I download Netscape 9.0.0.6 from?
I may be unusual among all this nostalgia, but while I really, really like Netscape Navigator 9 now (although not as my primary browser), I didn't really like Netscape that much when I first learned to surf the Internet at my community college in the late 1990's. While I often contemplated downloading it to the Windows 98SE computer I bought in 2000, it was always too much of a hassle on dial-up with 64MB memory.
I only downloaded Netscape to my new computer in the autumn of 2007, and have been extremely happy with it as a backup to Firefox and Internet Explorer. The Mini-Browser, which I don't see for either of the other browsers, has been a godsend when downloading or uploading albums of pictures or navigating a series of links in order; once you get the hang of it, it just makes navigation (especially within sites) infinitely easier. It allows me to use a third Yahoo! ID and set other defaults for different purposes. Like Firefox and IExplorer, Navigator has its drawbacks, but it also has its own unique advantages, and I'm extremely sorry to see it obsolesce in this way.
If I migrate the special features of Netscape to a new Firefox Browser, will I still also be able to keep the Mozilla Firefox browser I have now as a separate programme?
I have been using Netscape for my email service for many years and would like to maintain the email address. How do I migrate the Netscape.net email service to Firefox and keep my address book?
5:55PMJens
Very useful informations and tips for netscapeusers.
Thank you!