Topic: Web icon set to be discontinued

[Clive]

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.

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[Simon]

That's a shame, because Netscape 9 is actually quite good, and I use it on my laptop. 

[Rik]

I bought Netscape, on a set of floppies, all those years ago. A sad day. 

[Simon]

Unless, like Mozilla, someone else takes it on. 

[Rik]

Another open-source browser. I can't see it, can you?

[Simon]

Probably not, so I guess it will be back to Firefox, seeing as Sea Monkey doesn't like my laptop for some reason.

[Rik]

Vista issue or more than that?

[Simon]

It is a Vista issue, but indirectly, and I don't know the cause.  One of the add-ons which is essential to me is the Home button (I say essential, OK, it's not life and death, but I would seriously miss it if it wasn't there), and the installation of this seems to somehow conflict with Roboform, as once installed, Roboform won't work, I get a blank, but unremovable, toolbar, and I get an error message every time I open or close Sea Monkey, to the effect of the Roboform adapter isn't compatible with my version of SM.  Well, they are both the latest versions and it all works fine on my XP machine, so I can only assume that something along the line isn't Vista compatible, and it seems to be the Home button add-on.

[Rik]

Well, you know the answer... 

[Simon]

There are several answers, but the easiest is to use Firefox instead.