Netscape is Officially Dead
Netscape is Officially Dead
On December 28, 2007, Netscape developers announced that AOL would discontinue their web browser on February 1, 2008, due to low market share.
http://blog.netscape.com/2007/12/28/end-of-support-for-netscape
Netscape development director, Tom Drapeau, wrote: “AOL’s focus on transitioning to an ad-supported Web business leaves little room for the size of investment needed to get the Netscape browser to a point many of its fans expect it to be.”
AOL acquired Netscape in a $4.2 billion deal in 1998. In 2003 the Mozilla Foundation separated from Netscape and AOL with its former parent providing a $2 million dollar parting gift.
Netscape had been based on Mozilla code since Netscape version 6. Thats realyl sad for such a nice Browser when most of us started using the Internet !
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