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By Bjorn Greif, ZDNet Germany
Posted on ZDNet News: Jan 30, 2008 4:22:00 PM

AOL has extended support for its Netscape browser by a month, to March 1.

AOL first announced in December it was ending support for the once popular browser on February 1, saying the investment necessary to get the software to the standard fans expected did not fit within AOL's new focus as a Web-based business.

In addition to extending the support period, AOL plans to release an update for Netscape Navigator 9 via the browser update feature that is aimed at smoothing over the transition between Netscape and suggested alternatives.

AOL is also putting forward Flock--a Web browser, built on Mozilla's Firefox code base, which can deliver friends, feeds, sites, and media in one view--as one such alternative.

Meanwhile, Netscape users who can't bear to leave the browser behind can reskin Firefox with a Netscape look.

Björn Greif reports for ZDNet Germany. Suzanne Tindal from ZDNet Australia contributed to this article.

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Might as well kill it..
From the sounds of it Netscape is using more and more of the Firefox/mozilla code base anyways so if development continued it would eventually end up essentially being a Firefox fork. No real benefit of using Netscape as a result so its death makes sound sense to me...

- John Musbach... (Read the rest)
Posted by: John Musbach Posted on: 01/31/08 You are currently: Logged In | Log out
R.I.P. Netscape? haraldf   | 01/30/08
RE: Netscape wins one month from executioner alxnsc@...   | 01/31/08
Netscape loss big years ago when AOL acquired it Boot_Agnostic   | 01/31/08
RE: Netscape wins one month from executioner rondev   | 01/31/08
Netscape 9 richm10@...   | 01/31/08
Might as well kill it.. John Musbach   | 01/31/08

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