AOL Pulls Plug on Netscape Web Browser

**Moxxnixx** · 12-30-2007, 09:14 PM

Looks like AOL has finally given up on their already dead Netscape browser.

Quote:

Netscape Navigator, the world’s first commercial Web browser and the starting point of the Internet boom, will be pulled off life support Feb. 1 after a 13-year run.

Its current caretakers, Time Warner’s AOL, decided to end further development and technical support to focus on developing the company as an advertising business. Netscape’s use dwindled with Microsoft’s entry into the browser business in the 1990s, and Netscape all but faded away after the birth of its open-source cousin, Firefox.

Read the rest at NY Times...

**thwebguy** · 01-24-2008, 01:33 PM

AOL should of done this 2 years ago

**alan1961** · 01-24-2008, 05:31 PM

Big change since the mid nineties when Netscape Navigator was the browser of choice, until Microsoft got in on the act. Navigator's popularity as been dwindling for years now, it is time to put it to rest. Personally I don't think AOL were ever really interested in keeping Navigator alive.

**carloncho** · 01-27-2008, 04:43 PM

Yes, i think the same. AOL take the better browser in that times, and kill it.

**davemies** · 01-27-2008, 05:17 PM

pity AOL isn't going with it

**joder** · 01-27-2008, 05:37 PM

AOL - the network worse than Microsoft.