AOL gives Netscape last-minute reprieve02.02.2008 02:17 Computers Just two days before it was to end support for Netscape Navigator, on Wednesday AOL gave the browser a last-minute reprieve, saying it would extend support until March 1.
At the end of December, Tom Drapeau, the director of AOL's Netscape brand, surprised users when he stopped development of the browser and set Feb. 1 as the date when his team would stop issuing security updates. Yesterday, Drapeau pushed out the support end date a full month, saying that Netscape and its partners needed more time to wrap up work on tools designed to help users migrate to the Mozilla Firefox or Flock browsers. "Mozilla, Flock, and AOL are working together to provide tools to ease the migration of existing Netscape browser users to our recommended Flock and Firefox alternatives," said Drapeau in an explanatory post to the Netscape blog. "AOL support for Netscape browsers has been extended one month, to March 1." Source: techzonez.comwww.alllee.com |
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