It's dead, Jim

[mdlbear]

It seems that somebody at AOL has finally noticed that Netscape is dead; they're pulling the plug in February. BoingBoing asks for memories, and points to the BBC's article.

I remember switching from Chimera to Netscape; I'd started using Chimera (the first one, not the one on the Mac) because it was lean and fast and took its style parameters from the X defaults like a well-behaved Xtk app ought to. Before that there was Mosaic, the ancestor of both Netscape and IE; it killed off a lot of innovative browsers in the early days of the web, and Netscape finished the job. I don't miss it much.

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[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, good old Nutscrape. This like Word Perfect ran on darn near anything... I actually *bought* Netscape 3, I think it was... one of the few pieces of software I ever actually paid for. (That, Quicken, TRS-DOS, FlightSim 4 (before I figured out MSFT was 3v1L), that's close to the set..)

Not brave enough to go to Fx3 yet.

[mdlbear]

I'm staying away from Fx3 until I'm certain it's not going to do incompatible things to my bookmarks, which I share across machines, and that the database isn't going to get corrupted when it crashes. That's when, not if. Fx2.x is just barely stable enough to be useable, IMO.