• @[email protected]
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        191 year ago

        Mozilla is the name of the Open Source version of Netscape Navigator. It is the pre-cursor to Firefox.

        • @[email protected]
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          181 year ago

          Not only that, they had goals beyond just a browser. They wanted to create a whole OS ecosystem integrated with the browser. They released Firefox as a side project to just get a browser in everyone’s hands while they worked on Mozilla. Turns out the OS ecosystem in a browser was a bust, and Firefox was a winner. Just the Mozilla devs haven’t stopped being bitter about it. The old Netscape motivations around the project have been a boat anchor.

            • @delta
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              21 year ago

              I remember that! Pretty sure I tried it out on my Nexus 5. It was cool but even then it seemed an impossible hill to climb. Looks like it was forked into a feature phone OS that’s maintained to this day!

          • @[email protected]
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            21 year ago

            I mean didn’t they achieve that? Today a lot of things are web based. Firefox is a powerful browser. Especially on Android. So if you want you can have your OS in a browser thingy…

            • @[email protected]
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              21 year ago

              Not at all. They created a great browser, which is what us end users wanted, but they never achieved their ecosystem goals.

    • smpl
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      21 year ago

      It’s called SeaMonkey now and AFAIK it is maintained and under community management.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        Yep, I use it every day.

        That doesn’t change the fact that Mozilla gave up on its flagship.