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I've used Nepscape Navigator during my initial years of falling into the web. I wasn't really opinionated on browsers back then since web pages would grab all my attention. Still, differences in rendition were sometimes apparent although I never really understood why some people showed strong browser preferences. That was before I became a power user.

 

Things changed pretty drastically once I got the hook. I took a keen interest in the browser war and saw the fall of Netscape (felt sad) and rise of Opera and Firefox (felt happy). You may be surprised to know that I installed and ran Flock the very day it was made public (before the official launch). It's built on Firefox (thus the close resemblance) but I never really found it appealing.

 

You may visit my blog archive to read my perception of Flock.

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Anonymous said…
I was referring to you not having blogged about Netscape stopping work on Navigator, not about Flock.
Wednesday, May 07, 2008 11:30:00 AM
Deepanjan said…
I got that.
Navigator was never worthy of a post.
Wednesday, May 07, 2008 3:48:00 PM
Anonymous said…
Sure doesn't look like you got it.
Wednesday, May 07, 2008 6:29:00 PM
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