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It kinda just looks like Chrome forked to change the Google logos to Netscape and thats it.
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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.
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AOL is so stupid that they didn't have the guts to use Firefox as a base.
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Didn't Netscape basically become Mozilla?
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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
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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.
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Yes which makes this even dumber. They could just as easily have launched a Firefox fork.
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Firefox is Netscape; this makes no sense and shouldn't exist.
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Firefox is a direct fork of Netscape Navigator. (Actual Netscape Navigator, not whatever this is.)
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I vaguely recall its last version was an internet explorer skin too. So, 2 steps forward 1 step back?
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sauce?
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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.
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IE skins exist ‽
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Looks like just a shitty theme but everything Chrome retained. What a waste.
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Nope. Seamonkey is what you want.
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What does about:mozilla say?
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Sorry, I already annihilated the VM.
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I'm surprised I can't find anything about it online.
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Maybe I should try running it in WINE
