Why did people stop using Netscape? What was wrong with it?
Why did people stop using Netscape? What was wrong with it?
Brayden Perry
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Gabriel Hill
Internet explorer preinstalled on windows
Luis Russell
I don't know
Jonathan Lopez
Okay zoomie, story time. Once upon a time the two big browsers were Netscape Navigator and IE. Microsoft was greedy (as always) and decided to implement stupid shit addons that made sites using it incompatible with Netscape. That was stuff like ActiveX, which later turned out was a huge security hole in IE that was open for like 6 years or something. Also people who had just bought a computer already had IE installed so why bother going with anything else.
Jonathan Myers
Couldn't delete your browsing history easily.
Anthony Rodriguez
And yet people want Chrome to be the monopoly. How fucking stupid is that they really want us dealing with shit like this again?
David Ward
Jeremiah Ross
couldn't support javascript and new html/css
David Edwards
When will people stop using Chrome
Nicholas Morgan
Internet explorer was just better
Carson Davis
Ryder Murphy
Daniel Rivera
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Kevin Wood
Chome is about to get the same treatment.
Zachary Moore
So then what's next though?
Isaac Fisher
b/c in a way it became firefox
Carson Morris
this
John Reed
They didnt. Firefox is basically based on old mozilla browser that used netscape engine.
Hudson Morales
Addons weren't the real problem, most sites didn't use them.
The real problem was Microsoft never followed the standards for Javascript and CSS.
Microsoft didn't even follow their own standards, so often a very specific version if IE was needed not just the latest version.
It's also ultimately why Edge failed.
Brayden Thomas
Reddit browser?
James Ross
Aol bought them and fucked up. They literally told people to just use Firefox (or Flock, remember them?)
Josiah Wright
Maybe in 10 years or so
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