The Netscape Browser is Dead. Long Live the Netscape Browser.
Long Live the Netscape Browser.
I’d say it’s a sad day, but the Netscape browser has been dead to me for a long, long time. Between the unbearable crappiness of the 4.* branch, the sale to AOHell and Internet Explorer clobbering them in the browser wars, I’ve long grown accustomed to a world without a Netscape branded browser (in any real sense.) And anyway, the heart of the project lives on in the form of the Mozilla project and the Firefox browser, so the loss of the Netscape brand doesn’t mean all that much in the grand scheme of things. To be honest, with the way Firefox is growing it’s like revenge of the Netscapes or something.
Still, Netscape was the web way back when, so seeing that part of Internet history go by the wayside is something to note. Even if it’s a shriveled relic of what it once was.
devin Says:
my favorite part from that article:
“Recently, support for the Netscape browser has been limited to a handful of engineers tasked with creating a skinned version of Firefox with a few extensions.”
How embarrassing is that? Your boss tells you to stop developing your bread-and-butter product and instead just skin a superior app to look like yours.
Posted: December 28th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
rob Says:
It’s crazy how it all worked out. It’s actually for the best at this point as Mozilla is in a lot happier place than Netscape would have been if they’re tried to fix the browser as a Netscape product.
But still- From where they were August 9, 1995 to this? That’s a crazy story, certainly.
Posted: December 28th, 2007 at 4:19 pm