RIP Netscape

As many of you probably know, Netscape officially removed support for its eponymous browser.

Official: http://blog.netscape.com/2007/12/28/end-of-support-for-netscape-web-browsers/
BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7270583.stm

I was an early convert well before Firefox came about. I loved tabbed browsing, but everyone I showed just thought that it was a duplication of the task bar list of windows. Oh how wrong you all were - who still uses a browser without tabs? (Shut up anyone using iE6 - you shouldn't be reading this blog on such a crap browser)

Then Mr. Sam told me about this new browser that was a fork of netscape, and cut out the rest of the clutter that was the Mozilla / Netscape bundle. The Netscape / Mozilla bundle had all sorts of fluff that not many people used: email client, HTML composer, calendaring etc. And then Firefox came along and showed how small, focussed and fast was better...

And we all rejoiced. And the plugins were good. And we looked upon those still using internet exploder and laughed.

Netscape - you lead the internet revolution for a time, and now your offspring, Firefox, is keeping the other browsers honest.