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   Natty :butterflyN: (natty@astolfo.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 23:38:26 JST Natty :butterflyN:

   @ezio@akko.wtf It's a subpost about Netscape and stuff 🥺

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     Roy Tam (roytam1@miniwa.moe)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 23:38:17 JST Roy Tam

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     • Alice :queercat_trans:
     @alice @natty @ezio Netscape 6-7 are rebrand of mozilla suite (now SeaMonkey) with custom extensions and functions integrated (like IETab). Netscape pre-6 is another kind of beast, and its next generation (i.e. version 5) engine (codenamed Gromit and Mariner) was stillborn.
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     Alice :queercat_trans: (alice@crab.garden)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 23:38:19 JST Alice :queercat_trans:

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     @natty @ezio but Netscape 6-7 wasn't all that different from Firefox. Just without extensions. I mean yeah, you had a mail client - but it was basically Thunderbird, and you had Composer, but it sucked. ^^

     I did actually start from Mozilla, but since I only used the browser part at the time, I honestly didn't notice any difference when switching to Firefox. Well ok, it had different toolbar icons, and got rid of the M-turning-into-dinosaur throbber, but that was it basically. Granted, I was a child at the time. Still, until I specifically researched it years later (which included using SeaMonkey for a while), I didn't even know about most of the differences.

     Unless you mean Netscape 4?

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     Roy Tam (roytam1@miniwa.moe)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 23:52:12 JST Roy Tam

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     • Alice :queercat_trans:
     @alice @ezio @natty oh yeah, I mixed up with Netscape 8 which comes with browser engine switching, NS6-7 are JUST rebrands.
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     Alice :queercat_trans: (alice@crab.garden)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 23:52:13 JST Alice :queercat_trans:

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     • Roy Tam

     @roytam1 @ezio @natty I know what Nescape 6-7 are, yes. Except it didn't ship IETab. I don't think it even existed yet? AOL yes, a button for opening sidebar yes, that weird dropdown next to url bar yes (I forgot what it was for tho, maybe What's Related stuff?). IETab no.

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     Roy Tam (roytam1@miniwa.moe)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 23:55:49 JST Roy Tam

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     • Alice :queercat_trans:
     @alice @ezio @natty just installer level bundling, there is no AIM/AOL client integrated into NS6-7.
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     Alice :queercat_trans: (alice@crab.garden)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 23:55:51 JST Alice :queercat_trans:

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     • Roy Tam

     @roytam1 @ezio @natty err. AIM client. Brainfart on my part.

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     Alice :queercat_trans: (alice@crab.garden)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 23:55:52 JST Alice :queercat_trans:

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     • Roy Tam

     @roytam1 @ezio @natty not just rebrands, no - as I said, they were shipping an AOL client and a few tweaks. So not more of a rebrand than Chrome is a rebrand of Chromium.

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     Roy Tam (roytam1@miniwa.moe)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 23:57:28 JST Roy Tam

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     • Alice :queercat_trans:
     @alice @ezio @natty can't find any here.
     
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     Alice :queercat_trans: (alice@crab.garden)'s status on Saturday, 13-May-2023 23:57:29 JST Alice :queercat_trans:

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     • Roy Tam

     @roytam1 @ezio @natty well no, there is.

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     Roy Tam (roytam1@miniwa.moe)'s status on Sunday, 14-May-2023 00:05:54 JST Roy Tam

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     • Alice :queercat_trans:
     @alice @ezio @natty ah, I know what going "wrong" here. mine is Streamlined version that has AIM stripped.
     https://sillydog.org/narchive/sd/71.html
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     Alice :queercat_trans: (alice@crab.garden)'s status on Sunday, 14-May-2023 00:05:55 JST Alice :queercat_trans:

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     • Roy Tam

     @roytam1 @ezio @natty I don't
     have one in VM atm, but I mean...

     https://d2bs8hqp6qvsw6.cloudfront.net/article/images/750x750/dimg/netscape-8.jpg

     https://wink.messengergeek.com/uploads/default/original/2X/e/e8ea8b26a70b448c5eeb14cfaddf403dbe7f334e.PNG