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

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[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 81 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 68 points 5 months ago

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

[-] LostXOR@fedia.io 39 points 5 months ago

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

[-] clubb@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months ago

[-] univers3man@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

Like some kinda eggar suit

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

sugarwater

[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 5 months ago

Aeh perut merh HAUNDS. Onen merh HEAURD

[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid 55 points 5 months ago

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

[-] kittenzrulz123 52 points 5 months ago

Didn't Netscape basically become Mozilla?

[+] yenguardian 78 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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[-] Linkyu 44 points 5 months ago

That sounds like Yahoo alright

[-] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 31 points 5 months 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.

[-] lychee 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months 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

[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 12 points 5 months ago

Yahoo Auctions is still massive in Japan.

[-] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months 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.

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

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

That was easily ten years ago.

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 points 5 months 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 5 months ago

Fuck-all was the good option.

RIP Tumblr.

[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months 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.

[-] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 31 points 5 months ago

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

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 45 points 5 months ago

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

[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 29 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

[-] Toes@ani.social 9 points 5 months 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 5 months ago

sauce?

[-] Toes@ani.social 4 points 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months ago

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

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 8 points 5 months ago

Nope. Seamonkey is what you want.

[-] NeoToasty@kbin.melroy.org 7 points 5 months ago

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

[-] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

What does about:mozilla say?

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 5 months ago

Sorry, I already annihilated the VM.

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

Sometimes dead is better.

[-] daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Maybe I should try running it in WINE

[-] daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

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

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