Submission + - AOL ends Netscape development (aol.com)
destinyland writes: "AOL announced they'll end Netscape development in February. "We feel it's the right time to end development of Netscape branded browsers, hand the reigns fully to Mozilla and encourage Netscape users to adopt Firefox." Tech Crunch notes that
Netscape's market share is now just 0.6%, compared to 16.01% for Fierfox (and 77.35% for Internet Explorer). To celebrate, I tried accessing Netscape's home page with AOL 3.0, and AOL immediately gave me a series of JavaScript errors. But while AOL is surrendering the browser they spent $4.2 billion to acquire,
"In a sense, Netscape lives on," Tech Crunch notes, "through the open-source efforts of Mozilla and Firefox.""