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Internet Explorer dominated for years. Microsoft killed Netscape not the other way around. Did they? I can remember switching from IE to netscape about 2 years
by LAC-Tech 4y ago
Internet Explorer dominated for years. Microsoft killed Netscape not the other way around.
Did they? I can remember switching from IE to netscape about 2 years before it died, and then going into whatever the precursor to FF was called.
- hnlmorg 4y agoYes. I’m 100% sure about that :) Is there a chance you’re thinking about Opera? That didn’t kill Internet Explorer either but it was around before FireFox gained traction.
- LAC-Tech 4y agoNo, I remember netscape navigator was my main browser up until 2005 or so. I switched in maybe 2003. Maybe I was just a hipster.
- hnlmorg 4y agoThe last release of Navigator was in the 90s. There were still Netscape branded browsers after that but it wasn’t called Navigator. However the market share Netscape had at that point was virtually nothing compared to Microsoft/IE and nearly all sites were written to support IE. For all intents and purposes Microsoft had won the browser wars.
- nequo 4y agoI think parent is thinking about the Mozilla Suite.[1] The browser later became Firefox.[2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mozilla_Application_Suite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mozilla_Application... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_early_version_history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_early_version_history