NewsFactor – On Friday, roughly a decade after Netscape’s fortunes started to slide, AOL announced it is finally pulling the plug on the Netscape browser. “While internal groups within AOL have invested a great deal of time and energy in attempting to revive Netscape Navigator, these efforts have not been successful in gaining market share from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer,” Tom Drapeau, AOL’s director of development, wrote on the Netscape Blog.