I'm still confused. The Mozilla Suite and Netscape is literally the same, but Firefox isn't, (except for those dang pictures still in the Downloads box, which sometimes still pops up, so what good is Cusser's image toolbar clone? ) and there's not a Netscape version of FF, so what hand they have in this? Were they pushing for their product first? Was FF relegated to second stringers? See, we expect that kind of crap from Redmond.
It's good to know some on the inside thought as I did, but obviously it wasn't enough. I personally didn't get hit by such a bug, and can imagine the bitter taste of those who had.
And to all who wanna pile on me as some kind of "shill", I'd like to introduce you to a novel concept - some of us raise hell because we like something. When we shut up, and you hear nothing good or bad from us, then you'd better start worrying, know what I mean?
Not quite, they're the same code base, but Netscape does a lot of their own work, mainly putting in commercial ties. That relationship alone hurt Mozilla because the capacity for all those ties had to be built-in.
Firefox is still the Gecko engine, but that wasn't the real problem, which was AOL/Netscape's severe mismanagement. Also, while they took Mozilla OSS, they didn't really understand OSS, which caused problems.
Were they pushing for their product first? Was FF relegated to second stringers?
They warped the product to their own ends and didn't treat the OSS programmers well even though they were some of Mozilla's best resources. Serious PHB problem.