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As of March 31st, Mozilla has turned two decades old.
Netscape Communications made two important announcements on January 23rd, 1998:
- First, that the Netscape Communicator product would be available free of charge;
- Second, that the source code for Communicator would also be free.
On March 31st, the first developer release of the source code to Communicator was made available.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Sunday April 01 2018, @03:41AM (6 children)
I remember how long it took before we saw the first FireFox. It seemed like it was taking forever. The promise of an open source browser, reborn from the ashes of Netscape, and improved sounded fantastic at the time. Choices of browsers were extremely limited.
I was surprised in those same days of KDE 3 to watch Konqueror -- which I didn't realize was a browser, I thought of it as the file manager. Not realizing the component nature of KDE. Too bad KDE died off at version 4.
The first FireFox seemed amazing. Then there was 2. Then 3. It was way ahead of other browsers. *cough* IE *cough*
It was also fun watching the market share of this obscure browser grow and grow. It was magical once it surpassed IE and then surpassed 50%. By then Microsoft realized they had to stop letting IE 6 stagnate and do real work on it. Which gave us IE 7, 8, 9, etc.
It was also fun to watch Microsoft almost get left behind in the browser standardization efforts.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 01 2018, @08:32AM (5 children)
I agree it was interesting while it lasted. Sadly now people have embraced darkness once again as Chrome is the dominant browser. People merely switched masters from Microsoft to Google instead of liberating their browsing...
Here's one keyhole view of the current situation. Probably flawed but the trend might be true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:StatCounter-browser-ww-monthly-200901-201707.png [wikipedia.org]
I use Firefox and Thunderbird every day and like them.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday April 01 2018, @05:50PM (4 children)
I use Firefox, too. But version 56. I get constantly nagged about updates, but I'l keep it as long as possible. It's just too many extensions that are no longer supported (nor supportable) in newer Firefox versions.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 01 2018, @06:56PM (1 child)
Maybe try Firefox ESR? That way you'll get at least some of the security fixes.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/ [mozilla.org]
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday April 02 2018, @07:00AM
I always check the distribution's update management, and up to now none of the Firefox updates was marked as security update.
When that happens, I'll decide what to do. Probably it won't be ESR, as that's a temporary solution. Currently the most likely solution is to use Palemoon for everyday browsing, and an updated Firefox for the few web sites that don't work with Palemoon.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @07:02PM (1 child)
"I get constantly nagged about updates"
get a grown up's OS and that wouldn't happen.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday April 02 2018, @07:14PM
I have a grown up's OS. And I'm sure it's not the OS that tells me inside the browser that I'm using an outdated browser and should update.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.