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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Fun fact, Firefox used to be called.... Netscape.. Yeah... Let's see how many miklenials are in here!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sort of. Netscape released the program's source code and Firefox used that as a base, but it wasn't like they took Netscape and just changed the name to Firefox like your comment implies. They were competing browsers for a while.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Fair enough. My bad.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

And remember what happened when Microsoft tried to kill Netscape? That needs to happen again, but against Google.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've just browsed with Netscape. But did not know this fact.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I've been corrected that it is a branch off of, not a direct evolution of, Netscape.