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Netscape Officially Dead
All four remaining users should take notice....
AOL's drunken, cash burning trip from god of the Internet -- to stumbling broadband provider -- to second fiddle advertising engine continues. Yes, everyone considered Netscape dead already, but Techdirt notes that the development of the browser had continued at AOL in some rudimentary capacity until today, when the Netscape blog posted an alert stating that support for the browser is over, which means the browser is officially, 100%, absolutely dead.
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While 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. 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.
For now, the Netscape name does live on in the form of the Netscape portal, which is all that's left of AOL's 1998 purchase of Netscape for the rock-bottom price of $4 billion.

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Farewell Netscape...

I remember working at a company back in 1996 when Netscape was at the forefront. IE just couldn't cut it as a browser for certain things and Netscape's built in utilities made it really easy to develop personal web pages. I remember Navigator Gold which quite honestly was the greatest browser...until they screwed it up and went to the Communicator suite.

Farewell Netscape...you'll forever be a part of history as the browser that WAS the greatest of all time. Just like Ali.