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Netscape browser is back... as a shitty Chromium fork. (i.imgur.com)

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[-] bizarroland@fedia.io 73 points 2 days 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 34 points 2 days ago

[-] univers3man@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

Like some kinda eggar suit

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

sugarwater

[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 days ago

Aeh perut merh HAUNDS. Onen merh HEAURD

[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 75 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 64 points 2 days ago

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

[-] LostXOR@fedia.io 35 points 2 days ago

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

[-] clubb@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days 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 33 points 2 days 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.

[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid 52 points 2 days ago

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

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago

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

[-] kittenzrulz123 47 points 2 days ago

Didn't Netscape basically become Mozilla?

[-] yenguardian 72 points 2 days ago

Just before Netscape was purchased they open-sourced their browser, and the Mozilla organization formed to continue the open-source Netscape codebase as the Mozilla Suite. So, basically yeah, the actual Netscape code became Mozilla and the Netscape legal entity just became a Yahoo subsidiary that they did fuck all with

[-] Linkyu 41 points 2 days ago

That sounds like Yahoo alright

[-] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 29 points 2 days ago

It honestly blows my mind that yahoo is even a thing anymore. I can't think of the last time they got something right, yet they keep shuffling along.

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Jason Scott compared "we've been acquired by Yahoo!" to "we found a lump."

That was easily ten years ago.

[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 10 points 2 days ago

Yahoo Auctions is still massive in Japan.

[-] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

We used to use them to farm and sell gold and rare items in an online game that I won't mention because I'm afraid it will restart my addiction.

[-] lychee 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Data harvesting is a lucrative business. You don’t need to have a good product with todays internet, you just need to have access to a lot of insanely personal data, and yahoo has both an expansive advertising network and hosts hundreds of millions of email accounts. They're just Google except they don't pretend to care about anything else

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 days ago

They can keep shuffling along, though. If you don't have to pay for active development of features, maintenance of their existing product lines is relatively cheap.

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Fuck-all was the good option.

RIP Tumblr.

[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

you missed the bit about aol buying netscape in 1998.

netscape continued but under aol's structure. aol disbanded the netscape group in 2003, which is when mozilla foundation launched and took over development.

aol continued to release netscape on its own until v9 in early 2008. last two versions were based on mozilla's new firefox, not the legacy browser suite.

yahoo got mixed in when verizon bought aol in 2015 and most of yahoo in 2016, and combined them. later sold verizon media (the aol/yahoo combination, fka oath, nka yahoo) to vultures (apollo) in 2021. apparently the netscape trademark remains with the remnants of aol.