The half-dozen or so users of the Netscape browser will be sad to hear that AOL is finally ending the historic browser’s run as of its latest release, which is 9.0.0.6, and was released February 20th.
With the latest version being upgraded, Netscape will alert users that they can migrate to Flock or Firefox thereafter, according to the Netscape Blog.

For the faithful, this will have been something that wasn’t shocking.  As of December 2007, Tom Drapeau announced that AOL would be ending its support of the Netscape browser, as of this particular iteration.

Its worth noting (for me, anyway), that AOL is in turn *really* pimping Flock as the alternative to Netscape, (in addition to Firefox, of course) and like a presidential nominee gracefully exiting the race and throwing his support behind *another* nominee, it will be interesting to see if Flock will get a substantial boost from Netscape’s numbers — and more importantly, if this bumper crop of new users will stay behind the socially-driven browser.

(and of course if there is a boost, it will give a real idea of how many Netscape faithful there really are, and with Flock’s retention rate, how interested they are in Flock’s social features)