The end of Netscape Navigator

The 1st of March saw AOL stop supporting the well known browser Netscape Navigator.

In the mid 1990's it was by far the most widely used web browser but since then has lost almost all its users to Internet Explorer and Firefox. The bundling of IE with Windows was a major factor in Microsoft's dominance in the browser market and started Netscape's decline.

AOL recommends that any existing users migrate to either Firefox or Flock which are both built using the same underlying technologies as Netscape.

Having grown up with Netscape, I now use a combination of browsers including Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer as any web sites we build need tested in a number of browsers to ensure they all display correctly.