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submitted 1 month ago by user224@lemmy.sdf.org to c/196

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[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 81 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It kinda just looks like Chrome forked to change the Google logos to Netscape and thats it.

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 68 points 1 month ago

Perhaps there's extra tracking ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[-] LostXOR@fedia.io 39 points 1 month ago

Now you can get tracked by Google and Netscape! It's a 2 for 1 deal!

[-] clubb@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

It's actually owned by AOL, which is owned by Yahoo. So you get tracked by Google, Netscape, AOL, and Yahoo

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 1 month ago

That's almost every chromium browser out there, most don't even bother to change the skin and user interface from the chromium default.

[-] bizarroland@fedia.io 80 points 1 month ago

How is it that so many companies can literally skin another company and wear its skin as a bodysuit and we do not collectively recoil in psychological horror?

How are so many people germane to this concept?

This is invasion of the body snatchers but for companies that determine the livelihood of essentially every human being on the planet. It's fucking terrifying.

[-] ScruffyDucky@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago
[-] univers3man@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Like some kinda eggar suit

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago
[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago

Aeh perut merh HAUNDS. Onen merh HEAURD

[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid 55 points 1 month ago

AOL is so stupid that they didn't have the guts to use Firefox as a base.

[-] kittenzrulz123 52 points 1 month ago

Didn't Netscape basically become Mozilla?

[-] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

Yes which makes this even dumber. They could just as easily have launched a Firefox fork.

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 45 points 1 month ago

Firefox is Netscape; this makes no sense and shouldn't exist.

[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Firefox is a direct fork of Netscape Navigator. (Actual Netscape Navigator, not whatever this is.)

[-] Toes@ani.social 9 points 1 month ago

I vaguely recall its last version was an internet explorer skin too. So, 2 steps forward 1 step back?

[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 1 month ago
[-] Toes@ani.social 4 points 1 month ago

Had to refresh my knowledge of that era.

But it was Netscape version 8 that let users use the Trident engine (internet explorer).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trident_(software)

Under use cases.

[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 1 month ago

to render web pages in IE mode

Sounds like a separate mode for compatibility reasons back when websites had that "Best viewed in Internet Explorer" badge

Plus, 8 wasn't the last release either

[-] Toes@ani.social 2 points 1 month ago

Sounds like a separate mode for compatibility

Yeah it was, I don't know if they kept the feature in v9. It stopped being relevant a long time before that either way.

I never made a claim to the accuracy.

[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 1 month ago

i was just saying that i don’t think they ever became an ie skin lol

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 8 points 1 month ago

Nope. Seamonkey is what you want.

[-] NeoToasty@kbin.melroy.org 7 points 1 month ago

Looks like just a shitty theme but everything Chrome retained. What a waste.

[-] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago

Sorry, I already annihilated the VM.

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

Sometimes dead is better.

[-] daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Maybe I should try running it in WINE

[-] daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I'm surprised I can't find anything about it online.

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