Comments on: Farewell Netscape Navigator

By: Formerly Registered

Formerly Registered — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:16:13 +0000

Netscape, (the) *true* Netscape, has been gone for years. Version 4.8[0] was the last before the Grand-old browser was taken-over/subsumed by avaricious corporations.

Nevertheless, that-which-was Netscape shall be *sorely* missed.

*sniff…..

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:39:18 +0000

It is bad, but could people quit blaming MS Bundling IE with Windows.
I use Netscape 9 even as I type. For me to get it I had to use IE and goto netscape.com and download it.
Now if IE wasn’t bundled with Windows I would be searching magazine racks to find a copy (just like the old days) or I would have to find a retail copy.

I think what killed Netscape was the lack of Marketing and AOL.
Firefox also is a major player in this as many people switched from Netscape to Firefox.

Another issue I have noticed more of recently is many major plugin’s like Flash require downloading and installing where as IE can do it all most on the fly with little work.

At any rate Netscape is dead and I’m not a fan of Firefox, so Opera it is for me from now on.
This will be my last post using Netscape

By: jacob

jacob — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:37:18 +0000

its sad really i do use netscape 9, but firefox’s extensons just made me pick it. It sad whenever an icon dies