Netscape Gets a One Month Stay of Execution

By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews

In late December AOL indicated it would end support for Netscape on February 1st, but it’s now extended that date to March 1st. If you check the announcement blurb at the top of their webpage, you’ll see it’s changed to March 1st, although the informational post still says February 1st.

There is an additional blog post (they ought to update the informational link to point to this one, cough, cough) AOL gave the reasons why - relatively user-friendly ones, to boot.

AOL’s suggested alternatives for when the hammer falls are Flock and Firefox, both built on the Mozilla Firefox codebase. As such, AOL, Flock and Mozilla are working to “provide tools to ease the migration of existing Netscape browser users to our recommended Flock and Firefox alternatives.”

We Say: A good decision for those still using Netscape. This update will be pushed out via the browser update feature, natch.

For those who can’t stand the idea of losing the Netscape look, there’s a skin called “Foxscape” for Firefox based on Netscape 4.8, compatible with Firefox 2.0 - 2.0.0.x.