AOL Pulls Plug on Netscape Web Browser
December 28, 2007

NEW YORK — Netscape Navigator, the world's first commercial Web browser and
the launch pad of the Internet boom, will be pulled off life support Feb. 1
after a 13-year run.

http://tinyurl.com/2ok9x6
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On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 08:53:58 -0800, Ed Jay <edMbj@aes-intl.com> wrote:

>AOL Pulls Plug on Netscape Web Browser
>December 28, 2007
>
>NEW YORK — Netscape Navigator, the world's first commercial Web browser and
>the launch pad of the Internet boom, will be pulled off life support Feb. 1
>after a 13-year run.
>
>http://tinyurl.com/2ok9x6

I used to like Netscape before it was taken over by AOL. Of course,
the spirit of the original Netscape lives on in Firefox.
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Doug Mazzacua <nospam@gmail.com> wrote:

> I used to like Netscape before it was taken over by AOL. Of course,
> the spirit of the original Netscape lives on in Firefox.

Sadly, that includes leaking memory.

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Ed Jay <edMbj@aes-intl.com> wrote:

>AOL Pulls Plug on Netscape Web Browser
>December 28, 2007
>
>NEW YORK — Netscape Navigator, the world's first commercial Web browser and
>the launch pad of the Internet boom, will be pulled off life support Feb. 1
>after a 13-year run.

First commercial web browser? I don't think so. That was NCSA Mosaic,
which still lives on in part, in so much as most other browsers are
based upon it.

X

Ed Jay wrote:
> AOL Pulls Plug on Netscape Web Browser
> December 28, 2007
>
> NEW YORK — Netscape Navigator, the world's first commercial Web browser and
> the launch pad of the Internet boom, will be pulled off life support Feb. 1
> after a 13-year run.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/2ok9x6

"Netscape's usage dwindled with Microsoft Corp.'s entry into the
browser business..."

No Netscape's usage plummeted when AOL bought it and promptly shelved
it. It went downhill from there. As for their trying to revive it, what
geek or pseudo-geek in his right mind would use or trust anything from
the loins of AOL??

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(Secret Agent X) scribed:

>Ed Jay <edMbj@aes-intl.com> wrote:
>
>>AOL Pulls Plug on Netscape Web Browser
>>December 28, 2007
>>
>>NEW YORK — Netscape Navigator, the world's first commercial Web browser and
>>the launch pad of the Internet boom, will be pulled off life support Feb. 1
>>after a 13-year run.
>
>First commercial web browser? I don't think so. That was NCSA Mosaic,
>which still lives on in part, in so much as most other browsers are
>based upon it.
>
Mosaic wasn't a commercial product, was it?
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(Secret Agent X) wrote:

> Ed Jay <edMbj@aes-intl.com> wrote:
>
>>AOL Pulls Plug on Netscape Web Browser
>>December 28, 2007
>>
>>NEW YORK — Netscape Navigator, the world's first commercial Web
>>browser and the launch pad of the Internet boom, will be pulled off
>>life support Feb. 1 after a 13-year run.
>
> First commercial web browser? I don't think so. That was NCSA Mosaic,

Nah, Mosaic was free.

> which still lives on in part, in so much as most other browsers are
> based upon it.


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WindsorFox-{SS}- <windsorfox@NOSPAMcox.net> wrote:

> Ed Jay wrote:
>> AOL Pulls Plug on Netscape Web Browser
>> December 28, 2007
>>
>> NEW YORK — Netscape Navigator, the world's first commercial Web brows
> er and
>> the launch pad of the Internet boom, will be pulled off life support Fe
> b. 1
>> after a 13-year run.
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/2ok9x6
>
> "Netscape's usage dwindled with Microsoft Corp.'s entry into the
> browser business..."
>
> No Netscape's usage plummeted when AOL bought it and promptly shelved
> it. It went downhill from there. As for their trying to revive it, what
> geek or pseudo-geek in his right mind would use or trust anything from
> the loins of AOL??

People where already dropping Netscape like a hot piece of shit before
that. And they got a good point. I needed to buy extra memory so I could
run Netscape 4.x a bit longer with all that memory leaking going on.

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