long live the king?

• AOL officially kills Netscape
  
• Netscape No More
• Netscape R.I.P.
• Netscape Dead
• Sorting it Out
• Mozilla Lives

AOL has discontinued the work on the Netscape browser. But to keep from completely alienating all of the users and the independent developers who contributed to the open-source project Mozilla (Netscape was almost Mozilla with a corporate wrapper around it), they have committed to giving money to the Mozilla Foundation for its continuing development.

IE is as good as dead with the only updates available for a fee to Mac users and not at all to PCers, so this leaves Mozilla the largest browser still being actively worked on. I would recommend anyone looking for something new to try Mozilla, or if you’re using OS X, Safari. Both offer a number features not found in IE, including built-in popup blocking. You have to try tabbed browsing to really understand how convenient it is. New features will be found in those browsers long before anything comes from IE.