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Comment by BSDobelix

10 days ago

>I've been using it since it was called phoenix and at its peak, it was mostly nerds installing that at schools, convincing their mums, etc, thanks to the adblock.

Are you talking about Netscape? Because that was installed on everything ;)

>because google spend billions marketing Chrome in early 2000

Really? Early 2000?

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BiteCode_dev  10 days ago

No, firefox was first called phoenix (because it was seen as a rebirth of the netscaoe ethos) then firebird.

Netscape got killed by ie 5.5 and firefox competed mostly with ie 6 on Market and opera on innovation.

And yep, i think 2008 was first chrome ad on google search. It hurts but we are a quarter century in now.