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Netscape 4 versus IE5 or 6 was pretty bad. They got stalled a few years while rewriting their browser. Firefox was better than IE almost from the very first alp
by dep_b 9y ago
Netscape 4 versus IE5 or 6 was pretty bad. They got stalled a few years while rewriting their browser. Firefox was better than IE almost from the very first alpha tests.
- bigbugbag 9y agoNetscape 4 was facing IE4 not IE5 or 6. firefox was initially named phoenix and it was made as a workaround the performances issue of mozilla suite by removing everything unneeded to run a browser. Except mozilla suite fixed its performance issues way before phoenix was ready for prime time.
- dep_b 9y agoTrue about IE6, but IE5 was already out before Netscape 6 came out. Funny that the real 1.0 for Firefox came years later.
- vetinari 9y agoNetscape 6 was the "new one", with Gecko, XUL and stuff. Firefox itself used to be an alternative - the main browser was Seamonkey, that included mail client, chat client and kitchen sink, just like the original Netscape did. Firefox started later as a lightweight alternative, just the browser.