But it was simply Mozilla with a coat of paint, never Firefox.Īnd now it seems they’re through playing this game as well.
When Netscape folded they sold the brand to AOL, which later used it to distribute a rebranded Mozilla as “Netscape 6”, then 7 and I think 8 as well. In the meantime, project Mozilla managed to release a usable version of a browser based on the Gecko engine (which was a project Netscape has encouraged). So Netscape went down hard and never released v5. They lost precious time and money, and during that time Microsoft was busy using it’s monopoly to push Explorer on all Windows desktops. Then management borked it up badly and couldn’t decide whether version 5 should be a completely new browser or an incremental update from version 4. Netscape up to version 4 was its own browser (yes, the famous one that achieved icon status).
