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Firefox rises from ashes of abandoned Netscape

As of Friday, AOL officially will end its support for Netscape, the fabled browser that helped transform cyberspace from a fraternity of software geeks into a community of consumers who could point and click their way through news and entertainment.

Netscape as a company had the trajectory of a ballistic missile. Its public offering in 1995 set off the dot-com boom. But Microsoft Corp. fought its efforts to make browser software the new operating system of the digital economy, and not even a Justice Department antitrust investigation could save it.

Tom Abate, Chronicle Staff Writer

Full Story: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2008/01/28/BULFULUNF.DTL

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