Is there any code in Firefox (as of 2020) that comes from Netscape Navigator?

Re:Is there any code in Firefox (as of 2020) that comes from... by kbumsik on Friday March 27, 2020 @09:05PM (#22708331)

Contributed Firefox a little bit two years ago. Here is the file I contributed: [1]

You will immediately see a lot of NS_ (or ns) prefixed names in the source code. Without knowing about Firefox's history I thought like that Firefox has history with Apple (NeXTSTEP). But no, NS_ are the legacy from Netscape.

It was fun to get to know its history from the source code when I was contributing it :)

[1]: https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/dom/media/Med...

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Re:Is there any code in Firefox (as of 2020) that comes from... by DonHopkins on Saturday March 28, 2020 @02:00AM (#22709527)

Apple uses a lot of historical legacy NS prefixes too, but in their case it stands for NeXT Step! ;)

I used to call the browser Netscapé, which rhymes with Nescafé, back in the 90's when it was the world's leading distributer of Java.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nescaf%C3%A9

>Nescafé is a brand of coffee made by Nestlé. It comes in many different forms. The name is a portmanteau of the words "Nestlé" and "café". Nestlé first introduced their flagship coffee brand in Switzerland on 1 April 1938.

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