Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 6th Jun 2007 20:37 UTC, submitted by Oliver
"Netscape is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Netscape Navigator 9.0 Beta 1. The release is now available for download from browser.netscape.com for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Some of Navigator 9's new features are listed here; for a complete list, see What's New in Netscape Navigator 9? at browser.netscape.com."
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Some stat pages (and we all know how reliable they are, but still somewhat useful for seeing just how little used NN actually is):
http://www.thecounter.com/stats/ (effectively 0%)
http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/stat.htm (~.15%)
http://www.webreference.com/stats/browser.html (~1.77%)
Stats from my own personal site from the last 10,000 hits (first column is hits out of 10,000, last is version #):
7 0.07% Netscape 7.2
3 0.03% Netscape 7.1
1 0.01% Netscape 8.0.4
That's 11 hits out of the last 10,000...and going back further yields more of the same type of trend.
The point of this post isn't to bore anyone to tears (sorry if it does) but it is to point out that by and large NN has well under 1% market penetration. Which begs the question...who the hell over at AOL keeps signing on to develop new versions? And why are AOL shareholders (err, Time Warner I guess) standing for this humongous waste of money on what is effectively a DEAD platform? Firefox would have been long gone, and IE replaced years ago by either a rewrite, or with MS endorsing a different platform and branding it out under the MS trademark.
I mean seriously folks...what gives here?