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Netscape web browser has one month to live

Netscape Navigator
If you're one of the two or three people who still use Netscape Navigator as your primary web browser, we've got some good news. Well, kind of. Last month we reported that AOL (our parent company) would end support for Netscape Navigator on February 1st. Now it looks like that date has been extended by a whole month to March 1st.

If you've already got Netscape installed, it won't automatically stop working on March 1st. But AOL will no longer offer security patches or other updates after that point. So you should really think about switching to another we browser like Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Opera before then.

ZDNet is also reporting that AOL will push out at least one more update, with features making it easier for current Netscape users to make the transition to other web browses like Firefox or Flock.

Filed under: Internet, Browser Tips, AOL

AOL launches Netscape 9

Netscape 9
Remember Netscape? No, not the social news/bookmark site. That's called Propeller now. We're talking about the web browser. We'll forgive you if you didn't realize the Netscape browser still existed. We forget sometimes ourselves, and we work for AOL, the company that owns Netscape.

AOL has released the latest version of the Netscape browser. And while it's built on top of Firefox, it offers a few added features you won't find in Firefox (you know, unless you install a bunch of add-ons and Greasemonkey scripts):
  • Auto-correction of URLs
  • Easily resize text boxes in web applications like Gmail
  • Link Pad sidebar that lets you drab and drop links without mixing them up with your bookmarks
  • Sidebar minibrowser that lets you have two web sites open side by side at the same time
There's been a beta version of Netscape 9 floating around for a few months, but now's the time to download the stable release. Netscape 9 runs on Windows, OS X, and Linux.

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