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From memory, Netscape decided to pivot to open source via Mozilla/Firefox but IIRC, the development process took much much longer than expected. I remember rea
by doctor_eval 3y ago
From memory, Netscape decided to pivot to open source via Mozilla/Firefox but IIRC, the development process took much much longer than expected.
I remember reading Mozillazine back in the day, breathlessly anticipating the shiny new version.
Some years later I stopped waiting, and gave up.
- toyg 3y agoThey did a Big Rewrite which was somewhat bogged down by feature creep. They were rewriting not just a browser, but also an Outlook competitor and a WYSIWYG webpage editor - and while doing that, they decided it would be cool to create a universal GUI runtime for all of them, powered by the browser engine itself! In a way, it was an amazing effort (without which we wouldn't have Firefox and Thunderbird), but it was definitely more than most people expected of them.