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Netscape went on first to become Mozilla (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Application_Suite), but it was a big and bloated; and only then came Firefox as a slimmed down Mozilla only for web browsing.



Yeah, and the important detail here is all of this happened years after the "browser wars", which saw Netscape rapidly free-fall from being worth billions to being discontinued once IE was bundled with Windows 95. And then years later, Mozilla built Firefox from what remained.




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