RIP Netscape ! Recommends Firefox

AOL has finally decided to get rid of Netscape and lay it to rest in the beginning of next year. Netscape was once a huge competitor to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer which changed when Microsoft decided to integrate Internet Explorer into Windows. There was no way – at that time – to break this unfair advantage and the better browser suddenly lost huge market shares.

The final blog post at the official Netscape blog is answering some frequently asked questions about this decision and recommends to use Firefox with the Netscape theme and extensions instead.

I’m not sure why but I always thought of Firefox as a worthy successor of the Netscape browser. And it seems that the time is right to break the marketing domination with a free and better browser. It is a sad day nevertheless.