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Version 5 of Netscape Navigator was prepared, but several weeks before it should be finished, some manager decided, that Netscape have to come ASAP with Gecko-based browser. So Netscape 6 was released.
The current Mozilla suite probably contains little to none of the original Netscape Communicator 5.0 source code which Netscape released.
AFAIK JavaScript engine SpiderMonkey was not rewritten, because it has perfect concept already in Netscape days.
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Version 5 of Netscape Navigator was prepared, but several weeks before it should be finished, some manager decided, that Netscape have to come ASAP with Gecko-based browser. So Netscape 6 was released.
AFAIK JavaScript engine SpiderMonkey was not rewritten, because it has perfect concept already in Netscape days.