At this point of course just a case of totally unimportant historical Internet trivia . The surprising thing is not that the Netscape browser will finally die, but that it was still alive until now. I hadn't noticed ;-)
From the comments on the slashdot posting ... tieTYT tells an anecdote about what AOL did to Netscape:
[...]one of the things they did was realize that pop-up blocking was one of the new cool things for browsers to have. But the marketing team stepped in and said, "Hold on just a second. We can't have the browser blocking OUR pop-ups." So they added rule to block all pop-ups except those that came from the netscape web page.
The netscape homepage happened to have a pop-up on it and of course, this is the default home page of the browser. When you initially ran netscape, first thing you saw was a pop-up and the page behind it claiming, "New Feature: pop-up blocker".
You can't escape bad karma. What AOL does to Netscape, Time Warner tends to do to AOL. We'll see.
29.12.2007, 21:09