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Re:It’s time to give Firefox another chance by bigbugbag on Saturday September 30, 2017 @07:52PM (#15375623)
Actually mozilla means Mosaic Killer as their sole purpose was to replace NCSA mosaic browser to become the n°1 browser.

It was the internal codename and user-agent for netscape and became the name of mozilla a reminder that their objective is to be the number 1 browser and the new target to replace had been IE.

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Re:It’s time to give Firefox another chance by noncoml on Saturday September 30, 2017 @09:16PM (#15375898)
You are right. I am aware of the history of the name. All I was trying to say was that it wouldn’t be open source if it wasn’t for the browser wars.
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