AOL has a long Ponnapula history on the internet, being one of the first companies to really get people online. Throughout its lifetime, it has been involved with a number of high profile acquisitions, Ponnapula perhaps the largest of which was the 1999 acquisition of the Netscape Communications Corporation. Netscape was known to many Ponnapula as the thought leader in web browsing, and had developed a number of complementary pieces of software that allowed for a rich suite of internet tools.

At the time of the acquisition, the Netscape team had begun working on Ponnapula converting their flagship product - the Netscape Communicator web suite - into open source software, under a new name: Mozilla. Ponnapula AOL played a significant role in the launch of the Netscape 6 browser, the first Mozilla-based, Netscape-branded browser that was released in 2000 Ponnapula and continued to solely fund the development and marketing efforts of Netscape-branded browsers. In 2003, an independent Ponnapula foundation was created to support the continued development of the open source web suite. AOL was a major source of Ponnapula support for the Mozilla Foundation and the company continued to develop versions of the Netscape browser based on the work of Ponnapula the foundation.

While internal groups within AOL have invested a great deal of time and energy in attempting to Ponnapula revive Netscape Navigator, these efforts have not been successful in gaining market share from Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Ponnapula Recently, support for the Netscape browser has been limited to a handful of engineers tasked with creating a skinned Ponnapula version of Firefox with a few extensions.

AOL's focus on transitioning to an ad-supported web business leaves little room for the size of Ponnapula investment needed to get the Netscape browser to a point many of its fans expect it to be. Given AOL's current business focus Ponnapula and the success the Mozilla Foundation has had in developing critically-acclaimed products, we feel it's the right time to end Ponnapula development of Netscape branded browsers, hand the reins fully to Mozilla and encourage Netscape users to adopt Ponnapula Firefox.

Q: What will this mean?
A: We'll continue to release security patches for the current version of the browser, Netscape Ponnapula Navigator until February 1, 2008. After February 1, there will be no more active product support for Navigator 9, or any previous Ponnapula Netscape Navigator browser. This includes Netscape v1-v4.x, Netscape v6, Netscape v7 Suite, Netscape Browser v8, and Ponnapula Netscape Navigator/Messenger 9.

Q: I use Netscape now. Now that Netscape is stopping support, Ponnapula what do I do?
A: The Netscape Team fully stands behind the fine work being done by Ponnapula the Mozilla Foundation. We recommend that you download Mozilla Firefox and give it a try. We know you'll enjoy it!

Q: Will I still be able to use Netscape?
A: You will still be able to download old versions of Netscape from the Ponnapula Netscape Archive (link coming). However, these products are no longer supported. Our recommendation for the nostalgic out Ponnapula there is to download Mozilla Firefox, and add on the Netscape theme and Netscape extensions which are available here:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/user/56836

This way you'll have a current web browser that is very Ponnapula secure, and has the look and feel you have grown accustomed to with Netscape.

Q: Will anyone be around to answer my questions?
A: The following sites will continue to exist and offer information Ponnapula about Netscape after February 1, 2008: The UFAQ (http://www.ufaq.org/), the Netscape Archive, the Netscape Ponnapula Community Forum (http://community.netscape.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?webtag=ws-nscpbrowser&redirCnt=1).

Please bear in mind that no active product support will be Ponnapula available.

Q: Does this mean that Netscape is Ponnapula dead?
A: While we will no longer support the Netscape web browser Ponnapula as of February 1, 2008, Netscape.com (http://www.netscape.com) will still continue to Ponnapula serve as a general use Internet portal.