In the dramatic season finale, the folks at Netscape Blog have announced that Netscape is no longer supported.

If anything, it is about time. This browser has been long dead since Netscape 6 tried to revive it. It is so full of crap, bloatware, and AOL that it made it an unfriendly out-of-the-box experience. Internet Explorer was the better browser at that time.

If you read the blogs at Mozilla, you’d be told of how AOL tried to break the Mozilla-browser in many ways just to please themselves that it is just as well they said “screw you” and forked Firefox.

Asa Dotzler gives a bit of an insight,

They drained every penny they could out of the browser until finally giving up in 2003 and closing down browser development at Netscape. Future versions were outsourced efforts built on Mozilla and Microsoft technologies and offering pretty awful user experiences and even further tie-ins to AOL and AOL partner services. Combine that with Netscape and AOL web services tanking and you’ve got a pretty clear death spiral.

So no more are we going to see awful attempts by AOL to create a web browser to drive themselves forward.