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No, the Mozilla suite was based on Netscape 4, the "Communicator" suite -- totally '90s. We did Firefox as a pirate ship within Netscape and made it the lead p
by BrendanEich 11y ago
No, the Mozilla suite was based on Netscape 4, the "Communicator" suite -- totally '90s.
We did Firefox as a pirate ship within Netscape and made it the lead product/project when we spun out Mozilla Foundation. See the roadmap update that Dave Hyatt and I wrote in 2003:
http://www-archive.mozilla.org/roadmap/roadmap-02-Apr-2003.html http://www-archive.mozilla.org/roadmap/roadmap-02-Apr-2003.h...
The Mozilla suite had become SeaMonkey and was a separate and tertiary project (after Thunderbird, after Firefox).
This was not "research" (I'm a founder of Mozilla Research along with Andreas Gal and Dave Herman, btw). This was our one and only shot at making a come-back. By 2003, the '90s suiteware craze was over.