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History of Netscape and Mozilla

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

Sabah Arif writes "Netscape was there at the beginning of the internet boom. In 1996, the company controlled 90 percent of the browser market, but now its usershare is in the single digits. The spawn of Netscape, Firefox, has never been more popular, and is poised to beat Microsoft in the browser market. Read the history of Netscape and Mozilla at MLAgazine."

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  1. Re:Please cut out the mindless propaganda. by lazuli42 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The spawn of vi, Vim, has never been more popular, and is poised to beat Notepad in the text editor market.

    Maybe? Maybe not. How about:

    The spawn of xv, The Gimp, has never been more popular, and is poised to beat Photoshop in the graphics market.

    Nah... Perhaps:

    The spawn of some Swedes, Blender, has never been more popular, and is poised to beat 3d Studio Max in the 3d modelling market.

    You gotta be happy with *one* of those.

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  2. Re:Netscape 4 to IE 5 by __aawfbm2023 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Once Foxfire became stable and usable I switched to it, and some time later it became Firefox. Oh yeah? Well I'm such a hardcore, ultra to the maxx, mozilla fan that I was using Firefox back when it was called Oxireff!

  3. Poised to beat?! by orionware · · Score: 5, Funny

    Folks, the score is Team A 95, Team B 3. It looks like Team B is poised to finally beat Team A. What a game! What a game!

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  4. Re:Good grammar by azzy · · Score: 5, Funny

    So.. you would prefer:

    The spawn of Netscape and Firefox and has never been more popular and and is poised