Netscape/Mozilla Update

Is Netscape Really Dead?

[rtroxel]

This topic has been discussed in an older (now closed) forum, but I'd like to revive it, because I can't find any recent information on the fate of Netscape.

Some recent articles have said that AOL is completely scrapping Netscape but that the developers are all going to be working on Mozilla. Another item said that the current Mozilla developers are scrapping Firebird.

Anybody heard anything else about this?

[seindal]

As far as I have understood, Netscape is dead and there will be no further releases.

Mozilla.org has been reorganising to take care of the end user too, something they refused to do earlier, referring end users to Netscape. For example, MozilllaZine has set up several fora for end users while it earlier for for developers and power-users only. Also, the mozilla.org web site has reorganised to cater for a wider audience.

There has been recent releases of both the Mozilla Application Suite, of Mozilla Firebird and Mozilla Thunderbird, so none of them are really dead. The plan was to scrap the Application Suite in favour of Firebird and Thunderbird, but they made a new release of the Application Suite, mostly to benefit end users, I believe. The plans have not been changed, but the switch has been postponed a bit.

[drbrain]

Further work on the GRE need to be completed before the application-suite can be retired in favor of Firebird/Thunderbird/Composer++/etc stand-alone apps.

The Netscape brand is going to be resurected as a cheapo dialup service. How lame.

[hartlandcat]

The Netscape brand is going to be resurected as a cheapo dialup service. How lame.

When I first heard that news, I thought the same as you, but now I'm actually very pleased. The new dialup service to be released in early 2004 will be bundled with the Netscape browser. This also means that 7.1 will NOT mean the last Netscape release and Netscape is not dead.

Yes, MozillaZine have set up a load more new user help forums just a few days ago. Instead of just having one forum for all new user help, they now have separate new user help forums for the Mozilla Suite, Mozilla Firebird and Mozilla Thunderbird. The other good news is that they've set out some new rules to try and combat the attrocious behavour that was happening which caused me to leave their forums.

[RonPK]

Mozilla now also offers telephone support to end users, in co-operation with a third party.

[..] get your problem solved now for only $39.95!

Seems a bit expensive to me.