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Re:Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskinn by asadotzler on Thursday July 27, 2023 @11:52PM (#36902965)
As the guy who released all those Phoenix and Firebird and Firefox versions, I can tell you with some certainty that it hasn't been 22 years yet.

First builds were spring of 2002 and you probably didn't have those because they were still called "browser" or "m/b" back then and not made terribly discoverable. You probably mean you got with it in 2003, summer or fall, which would be 20 years ago, not 22.

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Re:Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskinn by EMM_386 on Saturday July 29, 2023 @09:18AM (#36920020)
> As the guy who released all those Phoenix and Firebird and Firefox versions, I can tell you with some certainty that it hasn't been 22 years yet.

Yes, I was off by a year or so, I'm not making anything up. Two decades is a long time to remember details.

All I know is I'd FTP to grab the latest and unzip it into a folder.

By this point I was running a couple major websites and had a "5-star CNET Award" for an internet-centered software product so I was on top of anything in that sphere.

Glory days.

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