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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 81 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

It kinda just looks like Chrome forked to change the Google logos to Netscape and thats it.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 68 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Perhaps there's extra tracking ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 2 years ago

That's almost every chromium browser out there, most don't even bother to change the skin and user interface from the chromium default.

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 80 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ScruffyDucky@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] univers3man@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Like some kinda eggar suit

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Aeh perut merh HAUNDS. Onen merh HEAURD

AOL is so stupid that they didn't have the guts to use Firefox as a base.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 51 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Didn't Netscape basically become Mozilla?

[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago

Yes which makes this even dumber. They could just as easily have launched a Firefox fork.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 45 points 2 years ago

Firefox is Netscape; this makes no sense and shouldn't exist.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Firefox is a direct fork of Netscape Navigator. (Actual Netscape Navigator, not whatever this is.)

[–] Toes@ani.social 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I vaguely recall its last version was an internet explorer skin too. So, 2 steps forward 1 step back?

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Toes@ani.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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@ani.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 2 years ago

i was just saying that i don’t think they ever became an ie skin lol

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 8 points 2 years ago

Nope. Seamonkey is what you want.

[–] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

Sorry, I already annihilated the VM.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

Sometimes dead is better.

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I'm surprised I can't find anything about it online.

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Maybe I should try running it in WINE