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RIP Netscape Navigator (1994 - 2008)
tuaw.com ^ | December 28, 2007 | Christina Warren

Posted on 12/28/2007 8:40:14 PM PST by HAL9000

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Soon, Netscape Navigator - the first highly successful graphical web browser (yeah, yeah, I know Mosaic came before Netscape, but I don't remember seeing Mosaic floppy-disks bundled with my PC World and Macworld magazines in 1995, at least not under the name "Mosaic") - will be nothing more than a footnote in Internet history. Let's take a moment of silence for the big N. OK, that was long enough.

AOL, the parent company of this blog and Netscape, has announced that they will cease support for the current version of Netscape as of February 1, 2008. Netscape, which at its peak in the mid-1990s held 80% of the web browser marketshare, and was a player in Browser Wars 1.0.

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: 1994; aol; firefox; mozilla; netscape; netscapenavigator; theend; www
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To: MrEdd

Opera is so limited, compared to Firefox. But it is my second choice. And, right now, I’m pretty frustrated with FF ver. 2.0.0.11 because it’s so slow, which is why I’ve been using Opera.


21 posted on 12/29/2007 8:37:47 AM PST by Clara Lou (Thompson '08)
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To: HAL9000
Firefox replaced Netscape so it can thought of as the son of Netscape.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

22 posted on 12/29/2007 8:45:44 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Clara Lou

I mostly use Firefox, but I also have Internet Explorer.
Sometimes a radio station’s webstreaming will only work
on I.E., but I try to avoid that browser whenever possible. I just dumped Netscape
as choice #3 and picked up Opera. But mostly use Firefox.


23 posted on 12/29/2007 8:47:15 AM PST by raccoonradio
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To: SamAdams76

24 posted on 12/29/2007 8:48:44 AM PST by Dumpster Baby ("Hope somebody finds me before the rats do .....")
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To: HAL9000

I remember circa 1998 my friend actually buying Netscape navigator in an office supply store.It was a free download but he had some reason for paying for a boxed edition.

I use IE,Firefox, Opera


25 posted on 12/29/2007 8:51:42 AM PST by dennisw
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To: SamAdams76

Tom Leykis duraflame bopped his wife after Christmas party and was given heave ho


26 posted on 12/29/2007 8:54:33 AM PST by dennisw
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To: HAL9000
What? No one but me uses Lynx?
27 posted on 12/29/2007 11:23:11 AM PST by Egon ("If all your friends were named Cliff, would you jump off them??" - Hugh Neutron)
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To: Egon

I use Lynx occasionally. It’s the ideal browser for some situations.


28 posted on 12/29/2007 11:27:12 AM PST by HAL9000 (Fred Thompson/Mike Huckabee 2008)
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To: HAL9000
Major bummer, now it looks like I'll have to uninstall it now. I like version 7 of Netscape and I still actually use it from time to time.

Thank you Bill Gates for making another once useful program go to hell.

29 posted on 12/29/2007 12:01:47 PM PST by pctech
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To: HAL9000
I use Lynx occasionally. It’s the ideal browser for some situations.

It's great for reading FR at work.

30 posted on 12/29/2007 12:53:27 PM PST by Egon ("If all your friends were named Cliff, would you jump off them??" - Hugh Neutron)
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To: SamAdams76

Wow man, those are some great memories. I am quite astonished that you downloaded the whole www on your hard drive. You were way ahead of the time, and yes, had you known about search algorithms, or even employed someone to write one, you would be super rich today.


31 posted on 12/29/2007 1:03:58 PM PST by nwrep
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To: doc1019
Just waiting until some super rich company buys Firefox and then will be out in the cold.

Firefox is OSS and whoever distributes it is bound by the GNU GPL.

32 posted on 12/29/2007 2:41:28 PM PST by Tribune7 (Dems want to rob from the poor to give to the rich)
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To: SamAdams76
There was one time around 1993 or 1994 when I had the entire World Wide Web on my local hard drive


33 posted on 12/29/2007 2:42:59 PM PST by Turbopilot (iumop ap!sdn w,I 'aw dlaH)
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To: ovrtaxt
Isn’t Firefox basically the same thing?

Firefox is basically the successor to Netscape. If you want the Netscape feel without actually using Netscape Navigator, use Firefox 2.0.0.x with the Netstripe theme. That theme makes Firefox look like Netscape Navigator.

Netscape was the sole alternative to IE for a long time. Now there are plenty of alternatives. Netscape simply ceased to be necessary. R.I.P. Netscape [play Taps here].

34 posted on 12/29/2007 3:00:00 PM PST by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: ovrtaxt
Isn’t Firefox basically the same thing?

The difference is that Firefox works.

35 posted on 12/30/2007 2:41:50 PM PST by Jeff Chandler ("Liberals want to save the world for the children they aren't having." -Mark Steyn)
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To: Jeff Chandler

What’s the difference between Firefox, Seamonkey, Thunderbird and Sunbird?


36 posted on 01/29/2008 11:28:16 AM PST by Netizen (If we can't locate/deport illegals, how will we get them to come forward to pay their $3,250 fines?)
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To: Netizen

Spelling?


37 posted on 01/29/2008 11:33:48 AM PST by Petronski (I didn't leave the GOP. The GOP left me.)
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To: HAL9000

AOL did more stupid things with Netscape than can be excused, it’s like they bought it for the sole purpose of killing it. Starting with buying it and never switching to it for the AOL browser and then ending (at least for me) with putting some crappy beta with an annoying unremovable debug window into the automatic download cue so your perfectly fine production code Netscape got replaced and you didn’t know it was a beta (and a particularly bad one at that) until it was far too late.

I was actually kind of sad when I finally tossed my final install of Netscape. Glad Firefox was around so I could switch to something good, but the web and Netscape were such synonyms for me for so long. Boo AOL for ruining what was once the best of breed.


38 posted on 01/29/2008 11:40:32 AM PST by discostu (a mountain is something you don't want to %^&* with)
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To: discostu

Firefox and the Mozilla Foundation would not exist today if AOL had not purchased Netscape, so something good came out of it.


39 posted on 01/29/2008 11:47:50 AM PST by HAL9000
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To: HAL9000

Of course if AOL had done anything intelligent with it we wouldn’t need a Netscape successor.


40 posted on 01/29/2008 11:51:15 AM PST by discostu (a mountain is something you don't want to %^&* with)
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