Saturday, December 29, 2007

Netscape Browser canned after 14 years

AOL's director of the Netscape Brand, Tom Drapeau, announced Friday that AOL will stop all development of the Netscape web browsers. He recommends that it's users switch to Mozilla Firefox, an open source browser that Netscape has based it's most recent versions on. 

You can find the full WIRED article here.

One of Firefox's original developers, Asa Dotzler, was quoted saying "good riddance". I couldn't agree with him more. It's about time Netscape was scrapped, it's been years since I've even considered using Netscape. As a matter of fact, I dread using Netscape. I can't believe AOL waited as long as they have before pulling the plug. It's always been full of security bugs, it was slow and worst of all, ugly. I do however commend Tom Drapeau for recommending such an incredible alternative. Mozilla's Firefox is my second choice, only to be beaten out by Safari, for a web browser. Now only if Microsoft would bite the bullet and can Internet Exploder. It's track record of security loopholes, bugs and pop-ups are just as poor, if not worse. 

If your currently using Microsoft IE or Netscape, switch to Firefox, it will save time and hassle. You can download from Mozilla's Website, it's open source software, therefore you can use it on any platform you desire. 

Well so long past, bring on the future. Now I only wonder what new client will sink Firefox in the future?