RIP Netscape Navigator

[sandorski]

Used Netscape until Mozilla was decent, always hated the way IE does things and still do.

 

[JasonCoder]

Originally posted by: Naustica
I remember being in awe the first time using Mosaic beta back in 1993. I still remember Netscape IPO and being in awe of the stock price. Man, the good old days of internet and stock market.

I was waiting on a Mosaic reference.

And IIRC, the FireFox we all know and love owes a ton to Netscape's original talented developer base. The whole Gecko thing was the brainchild of the good dev's at Netscape (prior to the AOL buyout and talent exodus).

 

[OdiN]

I think I'll open up Trumpet Winsock and get Eudora up and running.

 

[tranceport]

Originally posted by: Sluggo
Wow, a 4.2 billion dollar investment that 10 years later is worth about 10 cents.

They are stopping development....

I'm sure they were able to use a lot of the assets they acquired with this purchase. Sometimes companies will buy out their completion as well.

I doubt the 4.2B was wasted completely...

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

If something dies, and you didn't know it was still alive did it really die?

 

[Mrvile]

I stopped using Netscape when I started using Netzero...some eight years ago. Then I actually switched to AOL for a couple years. Then we finally got cable internet.

 

[Zugzwang152]

I used Netscape 4 for a long time, finally switched to IE then FF then back to IE.

 

[Captante]

Originally posted by: mugs
Who the hell used Netscape after 4.76?

I used 4.77

Havn't touched it since then though.

 

[imported_Nacelle]

I still have Netscape 7.2 installed. Only because I use composer to edit my web pages.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: ranmaniac
Netscape's trouble started once IE 3 came out and was bundled with Win 95.

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/ie_no_more3.asp

while that was a big part of it. the fact that Netscape sucked helped push it to its doom.

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: OdiN
I think I'll open up Trumpet Winsock and get Eudora up and running.

Um, I still use Eudora as my main email program.

I use Netscape 8.1 to check cross browser compatibility for the CSS on my web pages, along with EI, Safari, and Firefox (screw Opera, buncha Eurofreaks).

I have no affection for Netscape at all. Bastards started the browser wars by continuously adding non-standard tags to their browser, screwing up Mosaic users. Microsoft played a good hand and beat them at their own game: Yes, we support Netscape's tags, yep we do, yep, yep, nevermind, going back to standards now...Netscape hosed. Of course Firefox effectively did the same thing to Microsoft but hasn't unseated EI yet.