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Mozilla Openness facts

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Re: Mozilla Openness facts

#21

This built-in firefox page was new to me... about:crashes

Chrome has an about:crashes as well; but more importantly, both browsers have an about:about, which list all their about pages.

Opera has an about:about, but it doesn't list all about:X pages. It does gives version information, browser identification and folders where it has files (that one is very handy).

And a few pages of licenses.

Re: Mozilla Openness facts

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post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So Mozilla is jwz's name for the Netscape code that they open sourced. Does anybody know if there is a continual code-base going back through Firefox to Mozilla to Netscape to Mosaic? In which case, they could claim, they invented it all.

There isn't. jwz mentions that he was unsuccessful lobbying the release of the 3.0 source.[1] For the purposes of this discussion (since you only ask about the browser here), according to Brendan, 4 was like 3.[2] Seibel mentions there that Brendan says he tried to get it released, too. The big rewrite that everybody talks about is Gecko (under the stewardship of Gessner, I think), when 5 got ditched and the next rel…

Thankyou for the well-referenced response.
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