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[-] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

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

[-] EssentialCoffee@midwest.social 21 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Fair enough. My bad.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Fraeco@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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

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