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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.



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.


Ah, the fiasco that was the Mariner cancellation.




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