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- bizarroland ( @bizarroland@fedia.io ) 48•7 days ago
How is it that so many companies can literally skin another company and wear its skin as a bodysuit and we do not collectively recoil in psychological horror?
How are so many people germane to this concept?
This is invasion of the body snatchers but for companies that determine the livelihood of essentially every human being on the planet. It’s fucking terrifying.
AOL is so stupid that they didn’t have the guts to use Firefox as a base.
- kittenzrulz123 ( @kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 32•7 days ago
Didn’t Netscape basically become Mozilla?
- yenguardian ( @yenguardian@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 48•7 days ago
Just before Netscape was purchased they open-sourced their browser, and the Mozilla organization formed to continue the open-source Netscape codebase as the Mozilla Suite. So, basically yeah, the actual Netscape code became Mozilla and the Netscape legal entity just became a Yahoo subsidiary that they did fuck all with
- Linkyu ( @Linkyu@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 27•7 days ago
That sounds like Yahoo alright
- adarza ( @adarza@lemmy.ca ) English7•7 days ago
you missed the bit about aol buying netscape in 1998.
netscape continued but under aol’s structure. aol disbanded the netscape group in 2003, which is when mozilla foundation launched and took over development.
aol continued to release netscape on its own until v9 in early 2008. last two versions were based on mozilla’s new firefox, not the legacy browser suite.
yahoo got mixed in when verizon bought aol in 2015 and most of yahoo in 2016, and combined them. later sold verizon media (the aol/yahoo combination, fka oath, nka yahoo) to vultures (apollo) in 2021. apparently the netscape trademark remains with the remnants of aol.
- yenguardian ( @yenguardian@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 3•7 days ago
Ah, I felt like I had forgotten a few parts. My bad.
- Toes♀ ( @Toes@ani.social ) 9•7 days ago
I vaguely recall its last version was an internet explorer skin too. So, 2 steps forward 1 step back?
- Aatube ( @Aatube@kbin.melroy.org ) 3•7 days ago
sauce?
- Toes♀ ( @Toes@ani.social ) 3•7 days ago
Had to refresh my knowledge of that era.
But it was Netscape version 8 that let users use the Trident engine (internet explorer).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trident_(software)
Under use cases.
- Aatube ( @Aatube@kbin.melroy.org ) 3•7 days ago
to render web pages in IE mode
Sounds like a separate mode for compatibility reasons back when websites had that “Best viewed in Internet Explorer” badge
Plus, 8 wasn’t the last release either
- Toes♀ ( @Toes@ani.social ) English2•7 days ago
Sounds like a separate mode for compatibility
Yeah it was, I don’t know if they kept the feature in v9. It stopped being relevant a long time before that either way.
I never made a claim to the accuracy.
- Aatube ( @Aatube@kbin.melroy.org ) 1•7 days ago
i was just saying that i don’t think they ever became an ie skin lol
- NeoToasty ( @NeoToasty@kbin.melroy.org ) 6•7 days ago
Looks like just a shitty theme but everything Chrome retained. What a waste.