There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.
Agree compleatly. Been using firefox since it was called mosaic
Yeah it went Mosaic, Netscape, Firefox iirc.
Edit: And I think Netscape was a full rewrite as mosaic was owned by the university it was originally coded in, again iirc. That was a LONG time ago.
Netscape was Firefox? Somehow I never learned that. I fuckin loved the little space animation when a page was loading.
It wasn’t, this guy hasn’t a clue… Its original name was Firebird and they changed it to Firefox at version 3’s release. You could argue that it is somehow related to the Mozilla browser since it came from a related team but the Mozilla Foundation was also responsible for SeaMonkey as well.
Mosaic was completely unrelated, same with netscape.
I had heard Netscape being mentioned as it’s predecessor a number of times but never actually bothered to verify it. Looking them up on wikipedia would lead me to believe that they aren’t entirely unrelated with some absolute shit show of derivatives of licenced code from whichever browser I couldn’t tell for sure, which it also mentioned internet explorer being a result of. Looking as the articles for each browser and company is confusing as fuck and my pea brain can’t keep track of who each organization is and which is their browser. It sounds like a bunch of stuff that would never happen in current times.