Comments on: New Netscape.com focuses on news

Site will transform from a general purpose portal into a news site in which both readers and editors choose the content.
Images: Netscape diggs into news

[nealsaferstein]

Amazing

Its amazing how things change. This was once the most popular site on the internet.

Neal Saferstein

[DaClyde]

And for a completely different reason

When it was a top site on the net, 90% of that traffic was just browser downloads.

[thedreaming]

It was ...

Microsoft and AOL killed netscape. Not sure why they are even online anymore. Does anyone use their browser? Doesn't everyone just use Firefox and Internet Explorer?

[Maccess]

Marc Andreesen said this years ago.

Marc Andreesen noted in 1998 when Netscape was pummelled by Microsoft that they failed to capitalize on the fact that netscape.com was the most visited homepage in the world, simply because it was the default page of the then-most popular browser.