Star Web Icon Set to Be Discontinued
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 29th Dec 2007 20:42 UTC, submitted by Adurbe
Internet & Networking "The browser that helped kick-start the commercial web is to cease development because of lack of users. Netscape Navigator, now owned by AOL, will no longer be supported after 1 February 2008, the company has said. In the mid-1990s the browser was used by more than 90% of the web population, but numbers have slipped to just 0.6%. In particular, the browser has faced competition from Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which is now used by nearly 80% of all web users."
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vaughancoveny
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2007-12-26

These browsers have many more features that FF needs 15 extensions to compete with.
K-Meleon is faster too. Has anyone benchmarked Galeon?

BTW. K-Meleon is for Windows only, Galeon for Gnome. Both are based on the firefox libs/Gecko engine which has some XUL code so probably extensions could work or be modified.
K-Meleon is perhaps a security risk, depending on vc6redist.exe and comctl32.dll. Often its unofficial editions have the ActiveX plugin plugged in; I'm sure the main edition doesn't.

Netscape's fluctuating market share could be taken by these browsers? If only they were brought to more users attention.

Could OSNews review/release news on their current status, Thom? I don't know if Galeon has been updated.

http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net
http://galeon.sourceforge.net

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aaronb Member since:
2005-07-06

These browsers have many more features that FF needs 15 extensions to compete with.

I think that is why Firefox is a great browser. I've only needed two addons...
1. FireFTP
2. UK dictionary

The days of software products that cannot be extended easily are slowly fading.

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