AOL is planning to release a new version of Netcape browser, but whether it will mark a revival of the browser, or simply some life support, remains to be seen.
A former Netscape engineer, quoted in the story, thinks that the new Netscape won’t have any major feature enhancements over the new version of Mozilla, and AOL is only releasing it as flanking strategy to build up Netscape.com as a portal.
“AOL needs a portal, and the only efficient one it has is Netscape.com,” Glazman wrote. “But people who no longer have the Netscape browser on their browser are not going to visit Netscape.com just because it exists. AOL needs a browser having Netscape.com as its default home page.”
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