I know that it had to do with security and also incompatibility with smart phones, but was there anything else that resulted in its deprecation and ultimate demise? Why couldn’t they have left it up even if it wasn’t the best program/plug-in?
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You already have the answer to your question.
A rough analogy, if you owned a store, would you continue selling a food product from a third party that had low quality and regularly made some customers sick? It would lower the reputation of your store and also increase your liability.
The companies that make browsers are like a store owner. Why would they allow a product that has major security holes into their product offering? Especially since even the maker of said product says “we’re not going to support and improve it anymore”.
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