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Isn’t the simple explanation that Navigator sucked and people decided not to go out of their way to download it? Navigator did suck and was crash prone and cou
by scarface_74 3y ago
Isn’t the simple explanation that Navigator sucked and people decided not to go out of their way to download it?
Navigator did suck and was crash prone and could bring down the entire operating system on weaker operating systems like the Mac.
We have two instances where people did in fact choose to go out of their way to download better browsers then the default - first Firefox and then Chrome.
- icedchai 3y agoIt's been so long, I think people may have forgotten just how unstable Netscape actually was. 4.x was also incredibly bloated for the time. At one company, I remember a guy rebooting his Mac daily because NS would crash it. In the late 90's, I also briefly worked at another company with tons of ex-Netscape people. Even they preferred IE.