Quotes of the week

Posted Jul 31, 2012 21:10 UTC (Tue) by Jonno (subscriber, #49613)
In reply to: Quotes of the week by nickbp
Parent article: Quotes of the week

>Netscape source was released in 1998, but Firefox 1.0 wasn't released until Nov 2004. Those were not good years.

Actually, Mozilla Suite 1.0 was released in June 2002, and was way superior to anything previously available for Linux and the BSDs, and Mozilla Suite 1.4, released in June 2003, was actually competitive with the proprietary offerings of it's day, so the "dark ages" was really just 4-5 years...

Quotes of the week

Posted Jul 31, 2012 23:17 UTC (Tue) by nickbp (guest, #63605) [Link]

True, but they had such small marketshare that it was common to find webpages that didn't work with them. So you had a great browser, but your bank probably didn't let you log in with it without some spoofing involved.