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[Nvyseal]

images/news/aol.jpgAs we bid adieu to 2007 and prepare to enter the new year, AOL is also saying goodbye to memories: the company has finally killed off the Netscape Web browser - or what was left of it, anyway.

March 31, 2008 will mark 10 years since the Netscape development team opened up the source code to the browser that ushered in the Internet era. With its acquisition of Netscape in 1999, AOL continued that effort and helped launch the Mozilla Foundation into an organization that has taken on Microsoft and shaped the Web as we know it today.

But Netscape's time has long since passed due to the arrival of Firefox and AOL's struggles to stay relevant in an increasingly broadband-connected decade. Netscape 6, the first browser based upon the Mozilla source code, debuted in 2000 and was succeeded two years later by Netscape 7, also a rebranded version of Mozilla.

Meanwhile, Internet Explorer quickly took over Windows desktops and Netscape's market share dwindled to single digits.

[talker]

With me the loss will be little more than a twing of nostalgia. I used Netscape in my very early days of internet browsing. I then discovered IE 4, took almost 2 days to d/l the SP1 for IE 4 and have been an IE devotee ever since. I tried the Avant Browser which is an IE knock off and was VERY pleased but then when IE 7 came along and the knock off updated, Avant was ruined. My condolences to Netscape but I fear there shall be little mourning...talker.

[Tweak]

Avant is awesome, probably the best IE based substitue, Maxthon isn't bad, Opera still wins all the way around and once Kestrel is released even moreso. Thought I read somewhere they would be adding Firefox...not sure though.

[TheBearLT]

Ah.. not a big deal, Never liked that Netscape browser

Though for Netscape fans this is a big Loss.. but don't be Sad, it's natural that everything one day goes to Ashes