Re: Netscape Browser Officially Dead

John Jacobson wrote:



They did not adapt quickly enough and that is why they became
extinct, I think. When they did that mass rewrite, they lost their
market, because they did not have anything new for several years and
when they did come out with something, it was no longer well-suited
to the current environment.

I was under the impression that Netscape donated the code to the
Mozilla foundation. This eventually became Firefox, I can't remember if
they rewrote or threw away all the code.


I think the Netscape browser then used the rendering engine from what
became Firefox and added extra stuff.

There was also a Netscape portal at one point, AOL purchased Netscape
for that and eventually lost interest in the browser.

Cheers,
John




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