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		hinkley 18 hours ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: End of Japanese community Firefox is itself someone deciding to make their own fork of mozilla. Maybe we need to do it again every ten years.

airhangerf15 2 hours ago [–]

What? Firefox (or really Firebird before the rename) came internally from Mozilla way when it got its start (when Netscape was still around) in an attempt to make a scaled down, "just the browser" version of the entire Netscape Communicator/Mozilla suite.

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