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		integraton on March 17, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft is killing off the Internet Explorer bra... Except that Netscape was open sourced years before it became Firefox. That happened January 1998, which was 17 years ago, and 4 years before Firefox was released, which itself was over 12 years ago.

have_humility on March 18, 2015 [–]

March 1998, and it underwent a pretty well-publicized rewrite as well... Firefox is not built on top of what was released back then (Communicator 4.x); it's built on top of its rewrite.

yuhong on March 18, 2015 | [–]

Ah, the fiasco that was the Mariner cancellation.

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