AOL cancels active development on Netscape browser

This is really sad news, or at least I think so. 

I suppose its only fitting considering that the last really "good" Netscape browser was Netscape 7,  6 was nice but really slow, and well 4 started well but fizzled off due to the lack of support.

8 and above were nothing but jokes.

Dulles (VA) - America Online (AOL) is planning to stop all active development on the Netscape browser, once the most popular browser on the Internet, beginning February 1, 2008.  AOL's business focus will be on trasitioning to an ad-supported Web business, and it leaves little room for the size of investment needed to get the Netscape browser to a point that many of its users expect it to be, according to the company.

I was an avid supporter of Netscape and held on to NS7 for way to long before seeing the light and switched to Firefox.  Sadly my reasons for holding on were because I really liked the animated Netscape "throbber" graphic.

Crazy huh?  

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