• beatle
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    11 months ago

    In February 1998, approximately one year prior to its acquisition by AOL, Netscape released the source code for its browser and created the Mozilla Organization

    Google Founded September 4, 1998

    Mozilla, Gecko and what everyone now commonly refers to as Firefox predates Google.

    Edit: you’re technically correct of course, however I wasn’t about to complicate my reply with Netscape, Mozilla and Gecko history when the OP I was replying to was saying Firefox was built on Google Chromium.

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      11 months ago

      We’re all technically correct so far. Since that’s the best kind of correct I say we high five and enjoy reveling in our knowledge of nerddom history.

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        The best kind indeed. You’re a good human.