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Re:Former Mozilla exec: Google has sabotaged Firefox for years by glenstein on Monday November 20, 2023 @04:52PM (#38355426)
I'm with you on 2 and 3, but was Netscape Navigator similarly anti-competitive in a way that is analogous to Chrome or IE?
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Re:Former Mozilla exec: Google has sabotaged Firefox for years by scarface_74 on Monday November 20, 2023 @05:21PM (#38355734)
Yes. They added all sorts of proprietary extensions that didn’t go through a standards body. Thad’s how we got the “navigator” object in all browsers.
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