I see, Firefox is now the univeral desktop with all the web-based applications.
Well I wouldn't call it a "desktop", but then neither is Google, is it??
As for "all" the web-based applications, Firefox has (at present) 1,491 extensions, or "add-ons" that can be run from within the browser..
You can even research the Torah .. In Hebrew..
Firefox also has a very nice Google tool-bar, a massive group of themes or "skins" in a variety of styles and colors..
But let's get down to the meat of your snide response..
Like I said in my original post, Netscape has not focused as much on it's browser..
A browser which is based, like Firefox, on MOZILLA..
Mozilla itself has "evolved" and uses many of the add-ons, themes, features that have been developed for Firefox..
Netscape has decided to focus more on internet based services than on it's browser..
Those are just the facts...
Netscape could have all the features, add-ons, etc. that Mozilla has, if they wished to update their software and compatibility...
But even then, Netscape would still be a "suite", combining browser and e-mail in one package..
That's what Mozilla is, so that's pretty much what Netscape is..
Firefox is "just a browser"...
Thunderbird, it's adjunct for e-mail, is a separate program..
Thus, Firefox can concentrate on browsing, and browsing features, without having to concern itself with all of the additional source code of an e-mail program slowing it's operations down..
There are very few browsers available that can match Firefox.. (which is FREE..)
Maybe it Should Be the "universal desktop"...