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What Ever Happened to Netscape? (www.techspot.com)
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[–] bitjunkie 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It was always my understanding that much of the core of Communicator eventually became early Firefox, but I've never really fact-checked that, just kind of read it here and there anecdotally on forums.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

And Thunderbird for the email portion. Yes, web and email were in the same application.

[–] ace_garp 2 points 2 months ago

4-in-1 🙃

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

And with GMail and Chrome, it is still.