• grue@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Fun fact: Firefox was originally intended to be the “minimalist” alternative to Netscape Navigator / Mozilla SeaMonkey, where everything but the most basic functionality would be implemented as extensions.

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      It was meant as a less-bloated replacement for what was at the time known as the Mozilla Suite, which included NN and other programs. It wasn’t exactly minimalist, as it was one of the first browsers to ship with a popup blocker, for example, but it was far less bloated than it’s predecessor

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      I wish that existed as a browser. I guess minbrowser is close but struggles logging into university stuff.

      Next closest I could find still has multithreading and all.