I’ve just browsed with Netscape. But did not know this fact.
Comment on Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 1 year agoFun fact, Firefox used to be called… Netscape… Yeah… Let’s see how many miklenials are in here!
Fraeco@lemm.ee 1 year ago
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve been corrected that it is a branch off of, not a direct evolution of, Netscape.
EssentialCoffee@midwest.social 1 year ago
Sort of. Netscape released the program’s source code and Firefox used that as a base, but it wasn’t like they took Netscape and just changed the name to Firefox like your comment implies. They were competing browsers for a while.
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Fair enough. My bad.