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The rewrite meant Netscape 6 used Gecko, which brought us Firefox, which revived the browser wars, which brought us the WebKit browsers. History is a twisted m

• dubcanada 13y ago
  The real question is would Firefox on old Netscape 4/5 engine run the same and allow them to do what they did with Firefox? Or would they have eventually rewrote it into what Gecko is today?
  • yuhong 13y ago
    I think Mariner (the codename for the cancelled project) was supposed to be developed in parallel with Gecko.