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Firefox is Netscape; this makes no sense and shouldn't exist.
this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2024
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AOL is so stupid that they didn't have the guts to use Firefox as a base.
How is it that so many companies can literally skin another company and wear its skin as a bodysuit and we do not collectively recoil in psychological horror?
How are so many people germane to this concept?
This is invasion of the body snatchers but for companies that determine the livelihood of essentially every human being on the planet. It's fucking terrifying.
Aeh perut merh HAUNDS. Onen merh HEAURD
Like some kinda eggar suit
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It kinda just looks like Chrome forked to change the Google logos to Netscape and thats it.
That's almost every chromium browser out there, most don't even bother to change the skin and user interface from the chromium default.
Perhaps there's extra tracking ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Now you can get tracked by Google and Netscape! It's a 2 for 1 deal!
Didn't Netscape basically become Mozilla?
Yes which makes this even dumber. They could just as easily have launched a Firefox fork.
Just before Netscape was purchased they open-sourced their browser, and the Mozilla organization formed to continue the open-source Netscape codebase as the Mozilla Suite. So, basically yeah, the actual Netscape code became Mozilla and the Netscape legal entity just became a Yahoo subsidiary that they did fuck all with
That sounds like Yahoo alright
It honestly blows my mind that yahoo is even a thing anymore. I can't think of the last time they got something right, yet they keep shuffling along.
Data harvesting is a lucrative business. You don’t need to have a good product with todays internet, you just need to have access to a lot of insanely personal data, and yahoo has both an expansive advertising network and hosts hundreds of millions of email accounts. They're just Google except they don't pretend to care about anything else
They can keep shuffling along, though. If you don't have to pay for active development of features, maintenance of their existing product lines is relatively cheap.
you missed the bit about aol buying netscape in 1998.
netscape continued but under aol's structure. aol disbanded the netscape group in 2003, which is when mozilla foundation launched and took over development.
aol continued to release netscape on its own until v9 in early 2008. last two versions were based on mozilla's new firefox, not the legacy browser suite.
yahoo got mixed in when verizon bought aol in 2015 and most of yahoo in 2016, and combined them. later sold verizon media (the aol/yahoo combination, fka oath, nka yahoo) to vultures (apollo) in 2021. apparently the netscape trademark remains with the remnants of aol.
Ah, I felt like I had forgotten a few parts. My bad.
Looks like just a shitty theme but everything Chrome retained. What a waste.
I vaguely recall its last version was an internet explorer skin too. So, 2 steps forward 1 step back?
sauce?
Had to refresh my knowledge of that era.
But it was Netscape version 8 that let users use the Trident engine (internet explorer).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trident_(software)
Under use cases.
to render web pages in IE mode
Sounds like a separate mode for compatibility reasons back when websites had that "Best viewed in Internet Explorer" badge
Plus, 8 wasn't the last release either
Sounds like a separate mode for compatibility
Yeah it was, I don't know if they kept the feature in v9. It stopped being relevant a long time before that either way.
I never made a claim to the accuracy.
i was just saying that i don’t think they ever became an ie skin lol