Comments on: Farewell, Netscape http://www.christopherprice.net/farewell-netscape-163.html Christopher Price tackles the rest of tech. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:01:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: MegaZonehttp://www.christopherprice.net/farewell-netscape-163.html/comment-page-1#comment-486 MegaZone Sat, 29 Dec 2007 09:21:20 +0000 http://www.christopherprice.net/2007/12/29/farewell-netscape/#comment-486 I was a Navigator user from pre-1.0 through 4.79 - I still have my install floppies for 1.22 Gold. Which I purchased - remember when browsers weren't free? I switched to Navigator from NCSA Mosaic. I switched to Mozilla Suite full time around the point it hit 1.0, and then to Firefox a bit after it hit 1.0. At this point I'm happy to see the Netscape name retired, since AOL has abused it. It is a sad relic of what it once was, and today's users just don't think 'Netscape' when they think of the web. It is a historic name - but not something most of today's users think of with respect. BTW, if you like the in-browser IE rendering (that's one of the things I loathed about what AOL did), the 'IE Tab' extension for Firefox will give you the same ability. I was a Navigator user from pre-1.0 through 4.79 – I still have my install floppies for 1.22 Gold. Which I purchased – remember when browsers weren’t free? I switched to Navigator from NCSA Mosaic. I switched to Mozilla Suite full time around the point it hit 1.0, and then to Firefox a bit after it hit 1.0.

At this point I’m happy to see the Netscape name retired, since AOL has abused it. It is a sad relic of what it once was, and today’s users just don’t think ‘Netscape’ when they think of the web. It is a historic name – but not something most of today’s users think of with respect.

BTW, if you like the in-browser IE rendering (that’s one of the things I loathed about what AOL did), the ‘IE Tab’ extension for Firefox will give you the same ability.

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