Tom Drapeau, director of AOL's Netscape Brand, announced that the company would stop supporting Netscape software products as of March 1, 2008. Netscape continued to focus in parallel on both Navigator and Communicator, but Windows bundled with Internet Explorer continued to pose stiff competition to Netscape. In December 2007, AOL announced it would no longer be updating the Netscape browser. Netscape developed the Secure Sockets Layer Protocol (SSL) for securing online communication, which is still widely used, as well as JavaScript, the most widely-used language for client-side scripting of web pages. By the end of 2006, the usage share of Netscape browsers had fallen, from over 90% in the mid 1990s, to less than 1%. Netscape's web browser was once dominant in terms of usage share, but lost most of that share to Internet Explorer during the first browser war. Netscape Communications (formerly known as Netscape Communications Corporation and commonly known as Netscape) is a US computer services company, best known for its Netscape Navigator web browser.

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