…web browser.
Netscape Navigator, one of the first web browsers and now owned by AOL, will to be supported as of February 1, 2008.
In its heyday, Navigator was used by more than 90% of internet users in the 90s. Now, about 0.6% use the browser. Ouch! Does its new parent company have something to do with its inability to retain users?
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is the browser of choice by 80% of web users currently. The lion’s share for sure, but still a thinner slice of the pie that then one Navigator cut.
Does this signal a Darwinian evolution for the survival of the fittest web browser?
I swear by Firefox (16% share of the market), myself…which may be akin to the platypus in this analogy…oddly versatile, quirky, and, if I may…cool.
