Comments on: A Sad Milestone: AOL To Discontinue Netscape Browser Development http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/ Startup and Tech News Tue, 13 May 2008 22:01:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Farewell, Netscape! | K-Squared Ramblings http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-2224072 Farewell, Netscape! | K-Squared Ramblings Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:00:09 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-2224072 [...] Asa Dotzler has a somewhat less nostalgic take on the matter, as well as a link to commentary at TechCrunch. I can’t believe I forgot to mention the crippling/crufting of Netscape 6-7 as compared to [...] […] Asa Dotzler has a somewhat less nostalgic take on the matter, as well as a link to commentary at TechCrunch. I can’t believe I forgot to mention the crippling/crufting of Netscape 6-7 as compared to […]

]]> By: Netscape est mort… vive… Firefox ? | Web News - Web Marketing http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-2128412 Netscape est mort… vive… Firefox ? | Web News - Web Marketing Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:46:02 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-2128412 [...] Techcrunch : A sad Milestone: Aol to Discontinue Netscape Browser Development Crédits image (un peu modifiée ) : Wikipedia : Layout engine usage share Actualité Web En [...] […] Techcrunch : A sad Milestone: Aol to Discontinue Netscape Browser Development Crédits image (un peu modifiée ) : Wikipedia : Layout engine usage share Actualité Web En […]

]]> By: Netscape « Getting Personal with Fabs http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-2045578 Netscape « Getting Personal with Fabs Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:31:11 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-2045578 [...] eis que o netscape morreu. Faleceu. Não está mais neste [...] […] eis que o netscape morreu. Faleceu. Não está mais neste […]

]]> By: An Outsider’s Flawed View Of Silicon Valley http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-1993177 An Outsider’s Flawed View Of Silicon Valley Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:04:04 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-1993177 [...] amnesiac.” There is no nostalgia for the old days, because we are always looking to rip the old stuff up and throw it away for something [...] […] amnesiac.” There is no nostalgia for the old days, because we are always looking to rip the old stuff up and throw it away for something […]

]]> By: Our Techno Lyrics » Blog Archive » Powerful Support For Flock. Wait, Nevermind. http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-1930210 Our Techno Lyrics » Blog Archive » Powerful Support For Flock. Wait, Nevermind. Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:11:33 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-1930210 [...] Netscape announced they were shuttering their iconic Internet browser last month, they recommended to users that they consider moving over [...] […] Netscape announced they were shuttering their iconic Internet browser last month, they recommended to users that they consider moving over […]

]]> By: Korvis http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-1909374 Korvis Wed, 09 Jan 2008 05:56:41 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-1909374 i have feet ehehe. i have feet ehehe.

]]> By: Truth http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-1904303 Truth Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:17:51 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-1904303 $4.2 billion to zero, way to go AOL! What's the ROI on that investment!? $4.2 billion to zero, way to go AOL! What’s the ROI on that investment!?

]]> By: RAYAR http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-1899854 RAYAR Sat, 05 Jan 2008 04:50:57 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-1899854 Netscape is just retiring from AOL to get away from its' abuse. If you liked the old NS Navigator Suite, then check out SeaMonkey, it's Navigator deja vu. Use Mozilla Organization for updates for these Mozilla based browsers. Netscape lives on through Mozilla Org. IE is just too frustrating to use, arrrgggg!! AOL is just a time bomb, have been forever. Netscape may be sailing into the sunset, but the sun always rises again. Netscape is just retiring from AOL to get away from its’ abuse. If you liked the old NS Navigator Suite, then check out SeaMonkey, it’s Navigator deja vu. Use Mozilla Organization for updates for these Mozilla based browsers. Netscape lives on through Mozilla Org. IE is just too frustrating to use, arrrgggg!! AOL is just a time bomb, have been forever. Netscape may be sailing into the sunset, but the sun always rises again.

]]> By: Global Nerdy | Netscape 0.9 on the Present-Day Web http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-1899410 Global Nerdy | Netscape 0.9 on the Present-Day Web Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:15:26 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-1899410 [...] honour of Netscape’s passing, Perl & LWP author Sean M. Burke installed Netscape 0.9 and took it out for a spin, with [...] […] honour of Netscape’s passing, Perl & LWP author Sean M. Burke installed Netscape 0.9 and took it out for a spin, with […]

]]> By: Michael Sync http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-1895759 Michael Sync Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:07:46 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-1895759 >>why not some one else pick it up, and continue the development of Netscape. I would like do so. For what? Why do you want to do that? trying to make a lot of different browsers with me-too or me-similiar features? >>why not some one else pick it up, and continue the development of Netscape. I would like do so.

For what? Why do you want to do that? trying to make a lot of different browsers with me-too or me-similiar features?

]]> By: Eric http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-1890713 Eric Mon, 31 Dec 2007 19:05:03 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-1890713 why not some one else pick it up, and continue the development of Netscape. I would like do so. why not some one else pick it up, and continue the development of Netscape. I would like do so.

]]> By: Internet Service Deals http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-1889987 Internet Service Deals Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:35:48 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-1889987 I wonder how long before the others give up? If they can't all agree on the display of HTML, then I'm afraid to say that the fewer the better. I like the Netscape Add-on idea, use a common base and save web programming waste! A few of the sites I webmaster have top 10 browser stats that look something like this: Internet Explorer 73%, Firefox 16%, Safari 1%, Netscape 1%, Opera 1%, Others 8%. I would expect other sites to show similar results, post if you have them. I think it's interesting info. I wonder how long before the others give up? If they can’t all agree on the display of HTML, then I’m afraid to say that the fewer the better. I like the Netscape Add-on idea, use a common base and save web programming waste!

A few of the sites I webmaster have top 10 browser stats that look something like this: Internet Explorer 73%, Firefox 16%, Safari 1%, Netscape 1%, Opera 1%, Others 8%. I would expect other sites to show similar results, post if you have them. I think it’s interesting info.

]]> By: Frank Emery http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-1888969 Frank Emery Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:45:27 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-1888969 I used Gopher for a while in '93, saw Mosaic, talked the UCSC Science Library admin to let me start a web site using a text editor for html'ing - then came Netscape, whee! Still webbing, but using Safari, and M'soft will always leave a bad taste in my mouth by being at the forefront of the transformation of the idealistic early days of the web and destroying Netscape in the process I used Gopher for a while in ‘93, saw Mosaic, talked the UCSC Science Library admin to let me start a web site using a text editor for html’ing - then came Netscape, whee! Still webbing, but using Safari, and M’soft will always leave a bad taste in my mouth by being at the forefront of the transformation of the idealistic early days of the web and destroying Netscape in the process

]]> By: Kaixi http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-1888077 Kaixi Sun, 30 Dec 2007 15:25:33 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-1888077 Oh, so sad. Farewell Netscape. We'll miss you. Oh, so sad.

Farewell Netscape. We’ll miss you.

]]> By: Rob http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-1886539 Rob Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:44:31 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-1886539 I still remember the day when IE dumped their big browser logo on Netscape's lawn just find it spray painted the next day and crushed with the huge Netscape mascot "Mozilla" ... Good ol days http://home.snafu.de/tilman/mozilla/stomps.html I still remember the day when IE dumped their big browser logo on Netscape’s lawn just find it spray painted the next day and crushed with the huge Netscape mascot “Mozilla” … Good ol days

http://home.snafu.de/tilman/mozilla/stomps.html

]]> By: Davis Seal http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-1886385 Davis Seal Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:16:35 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-1886385 I remember when I had to disable image loading in Netscape so I could surf on my 28.8k modem. I remember when I had to disable image loading in Netscape so I could surf on my 28.8k modem.

]]> By: Netscrape gone? - Motorola Q Forum | Everything Q http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-1886317 Netscrape gone? - Motorola Q Forum | Everything Q Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:26:37 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-1886317 [...] Netscrape gone? I must have been living under a rock or something, anyways ...bye bye Netscape will die [...] […] Netscrape gone? I must have been living under a rock or something, anyways …bye bye Netscape will die […]

]]> By: Harald Felgner http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-1886270 Harald Felgner Sat, 29 Dec 2007 22:49:43 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-1886270 We installed Mosaic, we installed MacWeb, but then immediately switched to Netscape which remained our browser for ever since or <a href="http://www.felgner.ch/2007/12/rip_netscape.html" rel="nofollow">at least until 2000; ...</a> We installed Mosaic, we installed MacWeb, but then immediately switched to Netscape which remained our browser for ever since or at least until 2000; …

]]> By: Netscape kicks the bucket... - PoLlama Forums http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-1886121 Netscape kicks the bucket... - PoLlama Forums Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:30:36 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-1886121 [...] Netscape kicks the bucket... Please observe a moment of silence for the Netscape browser. Netscape Navigator, the browser that launched the commercial Internet in October 1994, will die on February 1, 2008. AOL, which acquired Netscape in November 1998 for $4.2 billion, will announce today that they will discontinue development of the browser, currently on version 9. In an email exchange yesterday with Tom Drapeau, Director of AOL/Netscape development, he said that only a handful of AOL engineers are still tasked with keeping the browser updated. Most of their efforts have been aimed at creating a Netscape-skinned version of Firefox with the Netscape look and feel. The team has been unable to gain any significant market share against Microsoft Internet Explorer. In fact, recent surveys suggest that Netscape currently has only 0.6% market share among browsers, compared to IE’s 77.35% and Firefox’s 16.01%. This, of course, is the same browser that once claimed more than 90 percent of the market, sparking the browser wars of the 1990s and the subsequent Microsoft antitrust trial. Drapeau says AOL’s transition into an ad-supported web business leaves little room for any real effort at maintaining and evolving the Netscape Browser. Read on! [...] […] Netscape kicks the bucket… Please observe a moment of silence for the Netscape browser. Netscape Navigator, the browser that launched the commercial Internet in October 1994, will die on February 1, 2008. AOL, which acquired Netscape in November 1998 for $4.2 billion, will announce today that they will discontinue development of the browser, currently on version 9. In an email exchange yesterday with Tom Drapeau, Director of AOL/Netscape development, he said that only a handful of AOL engineers are still tasked with keeping the browser updated. Most of their efforts have been aimed at creating a Netscape-skinned version of Firefox with the Netscape look and feel. The team has been unable to gain any significant market share against Microsoft Internet Explorer. In fact, recent surveys suggest that Netscape currently has only 0.6% market share among browsers, compared to IE’s 77.35% and Firefox’s 16.01%. This, of course, is the same browser that once claimed more than 90 percent of the market, sparking the browser wars of the 1990s and the subsequent Microsoft antitrust trial. Drapeau says AOL’s transition into an ad-supported web business leaves little room for any real effort at maintaining and evolving the Netscape Browser. Read on! […]

]]> By: Joseph Pally http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-1885806 Joseph Pally Sat, 29 Dec 2007 19:13:57 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-1885806 How come every filthy mouth commenter is not on IE? How come every filthy mouth commenter is not on IE?

]]> By: fullyfalthu http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-1885483 fullyfalthu Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:52:20 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-1885483 Sad....i remember it taking hours to download the gold version...but it was worth the wait.... for me, netscape was my introduction to the www ... good bye netscape... and LiveCrunch .... go take a piss ........ those who use IE are the once who have their head stuck up their arse.... Sad….i remember it taking hours to download the gold version…but it was worth the wait….

for me, netscape was my introduction to the www … good bye netscape…

and LiveCrunch …. go take a piss …….. those who use IE are the once who have their head stuck up their arse….

]]> By: Dog Turd Recycling http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-1885374 Dog Turd Recycling Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:08:41 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-1885374 Fuck off you spammer #78 Fuck off you spammer #78

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]]> By: Ballmer http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-1884171 Ballmer Sat, 29 Dec 2007 08:26:10 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-1884171 R.I.P. Netscape Browser! It took sooo long for this thing to die! Anybody remember way back in '93 or so when Netscape had the majority share of browser use and we were trying to introduce IE but nobody wanted it? We just issued an update to Windows 3.1 that contained the good old winsock.dll that disabled Netscape, lol (those were the days). When people complained, we claimed "it's a problem with their code!" After their developers figured out what we did (took about 2 weeks), we said we would issue a patch, we dragged that out for another two weeks. By that time most users had switched to IE and Netscape would never be the same again! Dang! We were such a ruthless bunch of bashTards! ... ahhh the good 'ol days! fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com R.I.P. Netscape Browser!
It took sooo long for this thing to die!
Anybody remember way back in ‘93 or so when Netscape had the majority share of browser use and we were trying to introduce IE but nobody wanted it? We just issued an update to Windows 3.1 that contained the good old winsock.dll that disabled Netscape, lol (those were the days). When people complained, we claimed “it’s a problem with their code!” After their developers figured out what we did (took about 2 weeks), we said we would issue a patch, we dragged that out for another two weeks.
By that time most users had switched to IE and Netscape would never be the same again!

Dang! We were such a ruthless bunch of bashTards!

… ahhh the good ‘ol days!

fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

]]> By: Veerasundar http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-1884143 Veerasundar Sat, 29 Dec 2007 08:15:12 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/#comment-1884143 Its good decision to say good bye to Netscape. When the technologies getting advanced, the tools also should be advanced. Its good decision to say good bye to Netscape. When the technologies getting advanced, the tools also should be advanced.

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