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Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by jacquesm on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @08:25AM (#24566157)
Pretty much. But they had not ridden Netscape that far down to the bottom just yet. Don't forget that the roots of Mozilla were seeded in 1998, the Mozilla foundation came 6 years later. Netscape was still hugely popular and FireFox took that popularity and ran with it.

To do this today, with a much more complex product would be no mean feat, back then a browser was a much simpler piece of software than it is today.

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Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by WoodenChair on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @09:59AM (#24567113)
> Netscape was still hugely popular and FireFox took that popularity and ran with it.

Netscape was not “still hugely popular” when Firefox was created. IE market share was upwards of 90%.

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