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davej on Feb 18, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Modern Browsers Ship

This is 2001, pre-firefox. If you want a frightening thought then try it's main competitor: Netscape Navigator 4!

I remember Opera was my browser of choice around that time, it was a seriously nippy browser back then, way ahead of it's time. Unfortunately the fact that there was no free version prevented them from getting a decent share of the browser market. Later on, they did eventually release a free version but with an ad banner in the navigation bar (of course Opera is now completely free and doesn't have any ad banner).

rapind on Feb 18, 2011 [–]

Netscape complicator, I mean communicator. The browser that was almost impossible to download by itself instead of the entire suite of useless crap.

I'm convinced the source code that became so unmanageable for the Netscape team started with frames.

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