The King is Dead…
Wednesday, July 16, 2003
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.
Computing News — laura
