The browser Netscape Navigator has fallen to the popularity of Microsoft's Internet Explorer. The browser will no longer be supported after February 1st 2008 bringing to an end one of the first widely used web browsers.
Netscape blamed the decline of its browser on Microsoft's bundling of its IE with its operating systems which it deemed anti-competitive. AOL bought Netscape in 1998 and decided to halt development of Netscape Navigator after seeing the percentage of web surfers to use the browser fall below 1%.
Personally I use IE and Firefox, some sites just work better on either one. However, should Microsoft not bundle IE with Windows it would only be another annoyance. Either way Firefox can still compete effectively with IE as can be seen by its fair share of web users and this competition will help bring better browsers to end users.
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Netscape blamed the decline of its browser on Microsoft's bundling of its IE with its operating systems which it deemed anti-competitive. AOL bought Netscape in 1998 and decided to halt development of Netscape Navigator after seeing the percentage of web surfers to use the browser fall below 1%.
Personally I use IE and Firefox, some sites just work better on either one. However, should Microsoft not bundle IE with Windows it would only be another annoyance. Either way Firefox can still compete effectively with IE as can be seen by its fair share of web users and this competition will help bring better browsers to end users.
Read this article and more at Tech-Ace
