Bye bye Netscape . . .

Netscape, which is owned by AOL since 1998, is about to die. AOL is ending the development and support for this browser after the 1st of February. The reason is that Netscape Navigator is being used by a tiny population. Currently, Netscape has around 0.6% of the web population using it, which compared to the 90% they had 15 years ago … is shocking. Microsoft contributed to this with the not-really-fair inclusion of their web browser, Internet Explorer, on their operating system, Microsoft Windows.

AOL will now encourage Netscape users to start using Firefox. Which is good news and makes sense, since Firefox was created by Netscape developers. As a note, please don’t go for Internet Explorer. Although version 7 is a much better version compared to version 6 (you’re not using IE6, are you?), it is still one of the worst browsers out there, which is used by 80% of people.

If you still want it for remembering the good old times (er…) you can still download a copy, but with no kind of support whatsoever after the 1st of February.

Read the full article on the BBC website.