could’ve sworn that the browser was also called just Mozilla at one point
If I remember correctly, at one point Mozilla referred to itself as “the godzilla of Mosaic” or something like that.
Mosaic being the first widely available web browser.
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Thaurin@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoI could’ve sworn that the browser was also called just Mozilla at one point, or was that just always the suite it was part of?
kent_eh@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
My memory is hazy, but I’m pretty sure Mozilla was a package and most people just didn’t install the rest of the package. Everyone called the browser Mozilla because they didn’t use the other parts. I could definitely be wrong, though.
chrisgestapo@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Mozilla (Suite) was similar to Netscape Commumicator and included browser, mail, webpage editor and maybe other functions as well. I don’t recall you could install the components separately. Later they decided to release a standalone browser (Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox) and then mail client (Thunderbird). IIRC they had standalone calendar (Sunbird) and webpage editor as well. Eventually they discontinued Mozilla and the closet thing would be the community-maintained Seamonkey.