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[–] TangledHyphae 48 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

FF has way too much groundwork laid and way too much mindshare currently (especially given the rust language and all..) If, for some reason, thousands of devs just gave up on mozilla, more would continue the path and fork it most likely.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Mozilla is the result of people giving up on Netscape. It will live!

[–] Ross_audio 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's the result of Netscape losing to anti-trust behaviour by Microsoft and open sourcing their code as a final parting gift.

Netscape was struck down Firefox rose.

[–] webhead 10 points 8 months ago

And that's surely why it was originally called Phoenix!

[–] ikidd 3 points 8 months ago

I hope that's true, because I'm hearing rumblings that Mozilla is moving away from it as their core project.