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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by umanwizard on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @04:16PM (#24125456)
Mozilla rose to the top because IE6 was obsolete trash, Opera cost money, and Chrome didn’t exist. The “promise of an open web” didn’t enter into it.
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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by pjmlp on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @05:14PM (#24126054)
When IE6 came into the market it was the best on its class, the only problem was Microsoft declaring victory and dismantling the team to create Avalon (WPF), which is also the background why CSS Grid came from WPF.
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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by spanhandler on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @05:09PM (#24126004)
... and the installer would download very quickly on your mom's dial-up, unlike the full Mozilla Suite which was huge, and it was much lighter-weight, better-performing, and had better default features for people who didn't need all of Mozilla Suite, so you could install it on there so she'd stop getting 500 pop-unders and then ending up with a virus and ten "browser bars" you had to fix.

Otherwise, yes, you've nailed it.

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