A web browser that gave many people their first experience of the web is set to disappear. Netscape Navigator, now owned by AOL, will no longer be supported after 1 March 2008, the company has said.

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It birthed the web as we know it. But tomorrow, February 1, marks the demise of Netscape Navigator, the first commercial web browser.

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Netscape Navigator, now owned by AOL, will no longer be supported after 1 February 2008, the company has said.

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In an email exchange yesterday with Tom Drapeau, Director of AOL/Netscape development, he said that only a handful of AOL engineers are still tasked with keeping the browser updated.

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IE has gained a LOT of attention from the way it handles registered URIs. We (Nate McFeters and I) have repeatedly mentioned that IE isn't the only browser that has issues dealing with registered URI handlers.

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To avoid confusion between the different Netscape products, we have made the decision that the next Netscape-branded browser (previously known only as Netscape 9) will be named Netscape Navigator 9. What's old is new again!blog.netscape.com

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