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Re:Is there any code in Firefox (as of 2020) that comes from... by jasonkester on Saturday March 28, 2020 @03:19AM (#22709745)
It's worth noting that it was Netscape Navigator 6 that this was all based on. As in, the ground-up rewrite of the entire product that ultimately killed the company. You know, the one that was so different to its predecessor that it couldn't render Netscape.com.

So yes, maybe some "Netscape" is in there still. Just not Netscape 4, the good one we think about when remembering Navigator.

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Re:Is there any code in Firefox (as of 2020) that comes from... by toyg on Saturday March 28, 2020 @06:03AM (#22710237)
Netscape 4 was utter rubbish. There is a reason it was rewritten: it had lost the browser war, because it couldn’t be updated quickly enough to keep up with IE’s rate of adoption of new standard features.
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