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Netscape Reborn?

An anonymous reader writes "BetaNews reports that Netscape has been revived with Firefox backing. 'Despite media reports and industry pundits over the years relegating Netscape to Internet history books, AOL has restarted the browser's development. The company plans to bring back a refreshed Netscape browser based on Firefox.'"

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  1. WHY? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Enough said...

  2. frist psot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    frist psttt

  3. MODS! "Off Topic" FFS!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is totally on the head of the nail of the topic you cretins.

  4. In Soviet Russia... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The browser browses you.

    1. Re:In Soviet Russia... by sffubs · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You mean...

      "In Soviet Russia, Firefox is based on Netscape."

      Oh wait.

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    2. Re:In Soviet Russia... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      code open sources you!

  5. yay! by Dr.Opveter · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    As if trying to make sites look the same in IE and Firefox isn't fun enough... It's nice to have choice but i wish some browser (preferably firefox) would just take over so we can forget about browser compatibility

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  6. Re:Those who are said to be dead ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "BSD is dead"

    Now, I await its resurrection.

  7. Ode to the Netscape/Firefox family tree... by AndyBassTbn · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It sounds funny, I know,
    But it really is so,
    Oh, I'm my own grandpa.

    I'm my own grandpa.
    I'm my own grandpa.
    It sounds funny, I know,
    But it really is so,
    Oh, I'm my own grandpa.

    Now many, many years ago, when I was twenty-three,
    I was married to a widow who was pretty as could be.
    This widow had a grown-up daughter who had hair of red.
    My father fell in love with her, and soon they, too, were wed.

    This made my dad my son-in-law and changed my very life,
    My daughter was my mother, cause she was my father's wife.
    To complicate the matter, even though it brought me joy,
    I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy.

    My little baby then became a brother-in-law to Dad,
    And so became my uncle, though it made me very sad.
    For if he was my uncle, then that also made him brother
    Of the widow's grown-up daughter, who, of course, was my stepmother.

    Father's wife then had a son who kept him on the run,
    And he became my grandchild, for he was my daughter's son.
    My wife is now my mother's mother, and it makes me blue,
    Because, although she is my wife, she's my grandmother, too.

    Now if my wife is my grandmother, then I'm her grandchild,
    And everytime I think of it, it nearly drives me wild,
    For now I have become the strangest case you ever saw
    As husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpa!

    I'm my own grandpa.
    I'm my own grandpa.
    It sounds funny, I know, but it really is so,
    Oh, I'm my own grandpa.

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  8. Re:Netscape backed by firefox?? by Flatline_hun · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Score: -1 redundant :)

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  9. Screwed up family tree? by Pan+T.+Hose · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Netscape, the company, begot Mozilla, the Browser.
    Mozilla, the browser begot Netscape, the Browser.
    Mozilla, the browser, begot Firefox, the Browser.
    Firefox, the browser, begot Netscape the Browser.
    Man, that's one screwed up family tree :>


    Screwed up family tree? You haven't read "--All You Zombies--" by Robert A. Heinlein, have you? Now, that is one screwed up family tree. (You can find the full text on Google or buy The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein.)

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  10. Possibly dumb question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Just to make sure, does Opera's Presto engine have anything to do with Mosaic, IE, Mozilla or Netscape?