Comments on: What Firefox Can Learn From Netscape Navigator http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/09/05/what-firefox-can-learn-from-netscape-navigator/ Insight and Analysis from North of the Border Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:39:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Pogovor » Tidbits from Brian King’s life » Blog Archive » All Browsers Want to be Mozilla http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/09/05/what-firefox-can-learn-from-netscape-navigator/comment-page-1/#comment-104089 Pogovor » Tidbits from Brian King’s life » Blog Archive » All Browsers Want to be Mozilla Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:06:19 +0000 http://www.markevanstech.com/?p=3853#comment-104089 [...] What Firefox Can Learn From Netscape Navigator [...] [...] What Firefox Can Learn From Netscape Navigator [...]

]]> By: Martyr2 http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/09/05/what-firefox-can-learn-from-netscape-navigator/comment-page-1/#comment-101490 Martyr2 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:05:26 +0000 http://www.markevanstech.com/?p=3853#comment-101490 I was going to put up an argument until you hit point 3 and 4 because point 3 and 4 are really what knocked Netscape out. Netscape's products just got worse and worse instead of better and that is because of point 4... they branched out into too many other products. It goes back to software development rule number 1... design for one thing and do it well. Netscape browser was awesome, but as soon as they went to communicator it went down hill really fast. I remember upgrading from the browser once to communicator and was like "What is with all this other crap?" Then it would crash again and again. I tried to stick with it through the next upgrade or two, but it just got worse. IE came on the scene very simple and straight forward. Much like Chrome is doing now. It had redesigned the browser from the ground up, like Chrome is also doing. But the mix of Netscape losing focus and their quality going down (plus the huge problem of Microsoft cheating by tying their browser to their OS which by the time the government got to ruling on it it was too late) is what ultimately lead to Netscape losing the war. I was going to put up an argument until you hit point 3 and 4 because point 3 and 4 are really what knocked Netscape out. Netscape’s products just got worse and worse instead of better and that is because of point 4… they branched out into too many other products.

It goes back to software development rule number 1… design for one thing and do it well. Netscape browser was awesome, but as soon as they went to communicator it went down hill really fast. I remember upgrading from the browser once to communicator and was like “What is with all this other crap?” Then it would crash again and again. I tried to stick with it through the next upgrade or two, but it just got worse.

IE came on the scene very simple and straight forward. Much like Chrome is doing now. It had redesigned the browser from the ground up, like Chrome is also doing.

But the mix of Netscape losing focus and their quality going down (plus the huge problem of Microsoft cheating by tying their browser to their OS which by the time the government got to ruling on it it was too late) is what ultimately lead to Netscape losing the war.

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