Camy Posted January 5, 2008 Report Share Posted January 5, 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7163547.stm The browser that helped kick-start the commercial web is to cease development because of lack of users. Netscape Navigator, now owned by AOL, will no longer be supported after 1 February 2008, the company has said. In the mid-1990s the browser was used by more than 90% of the web population, but numbers have slipped to just 0.6%. In particular, the browser has faced competition from Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE), which is now used by nearly 80% of all web users. Link to comment
JamesSavik Posted January 5, 2008 Report Share Posted January 5, 2008 Firefox is related to the Netscape code base and is the heir apparent. Link to comment
Tanuki Racoon Posted January 5, 2008 Report Share Posted January 5, 2008 Firefox is related to the Netscape code base and is the heir apparent. Actually Mozilla is the original from Netscape and Firefox is born of Mozilla. Link to comment
blue Posted January 12, 2008 Report Share Posted January 12, 2008 It's a good idea for most of those Netscape users to switch to Firefox. I still see a *lot* of visitors who use IE6, including some who use Win98. (Eek.) That means I still can't do some of the things nearly as easily as I could otherwise. Firefox 2.x is niiice about much of that. IE7 is...tolerable. I won't bore you with the list of things I'd like to be able to do on a web page without jumping through hoops or adding Flash all over freakin' everywhere.... Link to comment
DesDownunder Posted January 13, 2008 Report Share Posted January 13, 2008 It's a good idea for most of those Netscape users to switch to Firefox. I still see a *lot* of visitors who use IE6, including some who use Win98. (Eek.) That means I still can't do some of the things nearly as easily as I could otherwise. Firefox 2.x is niiice about much of that. IE7 is...tolerable. I won't bore you with the list of things I'd like to be able to do on a web page without jumping through hoops or adding Flash all over freakin' everywhere.... As a cinema man, I just want a web page to be an user interactive movie, full screen in at least 5.1 stereo sound, popcorn optional. Is that too much to ask? Link to comment
blue Posted January 13, 2008 Report Share Posted January 13, 2008 :laughs: I'm for the popcorn and widescreen 5.1 sound. Link to comment
Hylas Posted January 13, 2008 Report Share Posted January 13, 2008 Yeah. Firefox is the new Netscape. :P Switch to Firefox! Put an end to Microsoft Monopoly! /rant Link to comment
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