Netscape laid to rest?

[Jason]

From Slashdot.org --

Stony Stevenson writes to point out that Netscape has finally reached end of line with the release of version 9.0.0.6. A pop-up will offer users the choice of switching to Firefox, Flock, or remaining with the dead browser, but no new updates will be released. "Nearly 14 years after the once mighty browser made its first desktop appearance as Mosaic Netscape 0.9, its disappearance comes as little surprise. Although Netscape accounted for more than 80 per cent of the browser market in 1995, the arrival of Microsoft's Internet Explorer in the same year brought stiff competition and surpassed Netscape within three years."

http://itnews.com.au/News/70696,netscape-finally-put-to-the-sword.aspx

[dania]

One less to test the sites in...

[akheir]

As they have discontinued Netscape completely, after more than a decade I have switched browsers!

I now run SeaMonkey:
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/

As the icon is different, I am not sure if I can get used to it.  (Really, the only noticeable difference from Netscape 7.2 is the icon and lack of AOL which I removed years ago!).  Mind you, many features (like built in, inline spell check) are behind the scenes, but there and make the upgrade nice.

There is something to be said about consistency.