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Netscape Navigator to be discontinued
Published December 30th, 2007 in Browser Security, Other Browsers
The browser that helped kick-start the commercial web is to cease development because of lack of users. Netscape Navigator, now owned by AOL, will no longer be supported after 1 February 2008, the company has said. In the mid-1990s the browser was used by more than 90% of the web population, but numbers have slipped to just 0.6%.
In particular, the browser has faced competition from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE), which is now used by nearly 80% of all web users. "While internal groups BBC NEWS | Technology | Web icon set to be discontinued
