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What Ever Happened to Netscape? (www.techspot.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Rekall_Incorporated@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Thaurin@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I 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?

[–] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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 2 points 3 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.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 5 points 3 weeks ago

I believe the joke was something like it was spelled "Netscape" but pronounced "Mozilla". Web searches (at time of writing) for "pronounced Mozilla" seem to confirm this. I also seem to remember that its user-agent string identifier was "Mozilla" from the earliest version and never contained "Netscape", which goes some way to explaining why I initially forgot the real history and assumed a rebranding to Firefox.