In late 1995 the market was even more crowded than when they launched in '94. IE was already out. Opera was around the corner. Netscape was already close to it

In late 1995 the market was even more crowded than when they launched in '94. IE was already out. Opera was around the corner. Netscape was already close to its peak market share. Plenty of people were selling alternatives, plenty of developers had funding. A lot of money had started flowing into browsers before Netscape. Had Netscape not soaked up the funding it did, more of that would just have flowed elsewhere. The argument is not that Netscape were irrelevant, but they were one - big, sure, - player among many racing to commercialise features that already existed before Netscape.