Netscape Navigator, the of-late troubled browser that was the original mainstream browser in it’s heyday, will be laid to rest in February of 2008 when AOL will stop development and security updates for Netscape. Netscape.com will remain as a general-purpose web portal.
On an official Netscape Blog entry Friday, the director of AOL’s Netscape Brand, Tom Drapeau, wrote that “[w]hile internal groups within AOL have invested a great deal of time and energy in attempting to revive Netscape Navigator, these efforts have not been successful in gaining market share from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Recently, support for the Netscape browser has been limited to a handful of engineers tasked with creating a skinned version of Firefox with a few extensions.” Drapeau recommends that current Netscape users transition to Mozilla Firefox, and add on the Netscape theme and extensions.
“[Netscape will] continue to release security patches for the current version of the browser, Netscape Navigator, until February 1, 2008. After February 1, there will be no more active product support for Navigator 9, or any previous Netscape Navigator browser. This includes Netscape v1-v4.x, Netscape v6, Netscape v7 Suite, Netscape Browser v8, and Netscape Navigator/Messenger 9.”
Netscape Navigator was the first mass market browser, and the first mass market browser to come on a Macintosh.
Netscape Navigator, the of-late troubled browser that was the original mainstream browser in it’s heyday, will be laid to rest in February of 2008 when AOL will stop development and security updates for Netscape. Netscape.com will remain as a general-purpose web portal.
On an official Netscape Blog entry Friday, the director of AOL’s Netscape Brand, Tom Drapeau, wrote that “[w]hile internal groups within AOL have invested a great deal of time and energy in attempting to revive Netscape Navigator, these efforts have not been successful in gaining market share from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Recently, support for the Netscape browser has been limited to a handful of engineers tasked with creating a skinned version of Firefox with a few extensions.” Drapeau recommends that current Netscape users transition to Mozilla Firefox, and add on the Netscape theme and extensions.
“[Netscape will] continue to release security patches for the current version of the browser, Netscape Navigator, until February 1, 2008. After February 1, there will be no more active product support for Navigator 9, or any previous Netscape Navigator browser. This includes Netscape v1-v4.x, Netscape v6, Netscape v7 Suite, Netscape Browser v8, and Netscape Navigator/Messenger 9.”
Netscape Navigator was the first mass market browser, and the first mass market browser to come on a Macintosh.
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